[Truth29]

Another delay and hurdles put in place to stop the British people from leaving the EU.

[Regulator]

Note that the Barrister pushing this has a rather clear motive for preventing the British from controlling their borders.

She doesn’t want the invasion force stopped. She’s one of them.

[mewzilla]

...a number of rights that had been granted by the bloc...

Just another reason folks in the UK need a written constitution.

[FlipWilson]

Another example of how the judicial branch has become the tyrannical branch.

[captain_dave]

Treaties are a political decision. I thought Parliament was supreme. If PM May is a powerful prime minister she will easily carry the vote in Parliament. If such a vote fails, her government may fall, triggering new elections.

[InterceptPoint]

It's Brexit vs. Bloxit.

[Nextrush]

There will be many hurdles although I expect the Tories to push through a vote to ‘start the talks’ to look good politically and continue to claim they are advancing Brexit.

The final deal down the road may be a phony Brexit.

[Mashood]

Maybe the Brits should vote whether to remove the UK Supreme Court.

[Gay State Conservative]

In recent years haven't California voters passed several propositions that were stopped by the courts? IIRC homosexual "marriage" was one of them.

Terrorists in black robes! Britain's got 'em too.

[KC_Lion]

So what is the way around this then?

I thought the mechanisms were already in place for the Prime Minister to invoke Article 50. As in Parliament already gave their approval one way or another.

[1Old Pro]

Blocking the will of the people.

[pepsi_junkie]

They ruled that a vote by Parliament is more democratic than a vote by the voters. Funny logic to that one.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Winniesboy]

This was a widely expected ruling, and won’t mean any delay. The Government had already announced that there will be a Parliamentary Bill to trigger Article 50, and this will happen before the end of March - the timetable May announced last summer soon after she took office.

This ruling simply reaffirms the constitution - Parliament is sovereign, and it would have been very strange if a major constitutional change had happened without reference to the sovereign Parliament. Had that been the case, one of the fundamentals of the constitution would have been weakened.

There’s no doubt that the vote will pass - most of the MPs who backed ‘remain’ have made it clear they will respect the wishes of the people and vote for Article 50. The people voted for Brexit: but the (necessarily reductionist) referendum gave the Government no mandate on how Brexit should happen and which of the many possible interpretations of Brexit would be applied. The initial hopes of the May government that it wold be able to do all this without reference to Parliament were always far-fetched. This ruling simply reasserts the constitutional proprieties.

[aspasia]

They did this last fall, what’s new about this one?

[Jim Noble]

They wanted a Supreme Court. Now they’ve finally got one.

House of Lords says: “Miss me yet?”