Exit Brexit

Steyn On-line ^ | March 14, 2019 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

As I write, I happen to be next door to the Canadian House of Commons - which is far from my favorite place. But, at its lowest and most contemptible, Ottawa's House has never screwed over the Commoners the way that of its imperial mother just has in London.

Last night, sixteen days before Britain supposedly leaves the European Union in accord with the people's vote of three years ago, their elected representatives voted by 312 to 308 to rule out a "no-deal" Brexit - ie, a straightforward walkaway - ever.

So the EU now has no incentive ever to reach a deal with Britain. The appalling "deal" Theresa May "negotiated" was for a wretched and humiliating vassal status with Brussels. Because for the Eurocrats, what matters is to teach the lesson the ingrate voters that you can check "Out" any time you like but you can never leave. Mrs May's deal was meant to be a message to antsy Continentals that the citizenry's impertinence must never happen again.

When that flopped, Brussels moved to the next stage - not that Brexit must never happen again, but that Brexit must never happen, period. And, to their shame, the people's representatives at Westminster have colluded in their subversion of the people's will.

So last night the elites rose up and overthrew the masses. Of course, they have also destroyed their own reputation, and that of England as the Mother of Parliaments. But in a sense that also makes the larger point - that the world is too complex to be left to self-government by the people's representatives, so best to leave it to Brussels.

[Cronos]

Referenda in the UK are not in the constitution and are non-binding. They have zero legal status. Remember that, unlike the USA where the American people are sovereign; in the UK PARLIAMENT is sovereign. Parliament could legally fully ignore the referendum

[Cronos]

the EU will collapse when the euro does - why? The Euro is used by only 19 of the 28 EU countries and the others have no intention of getting into the Euro. If the Euro collapses (which doesn't seem likely now unless the French economy collapses) as opposed to Greece, Italy leaving, why would it end the EU?