This morning, in a landmark ruling, Lord Chief Justice Thomas said Mrs May did not have the right to set in motion Article 50, the official start of the two-year EU divorce proceedings, without consulting Parliament.
I am pleased the Government will appeal this morning’s ruling and I think they should. A majority of the British public voted to leave the EU and we have a duty to carry out their wishes. The former Prime Minister, David Cameron said if the country voted to leave the European Union he would trigger Article 50 immediately. In the event he resigned before doing so. There was no doubt what voting to leave the EU meant. This Court Ruling will not prevent the UK leaving but it may delay the process.
The Government’s appeal is likely to be heard in December by Britain’s 12 Justices of the Supreme Court. If the High Court decision is upheld at this point, I assume we will have a vote in Parliament before the Prime Minister officially triggers Article 50. I would expect every MP to vote to endorse the historic decision taken by the British People on June 23rd. Only a Member of Parliament who holds the electorate in complete contempt would even consider voting against triggering Article 50.
As far as I can tell, the most vociferous pro-EU MPs – the likes of Clegg and Milliband – have constituents who voted over 50% to leave the EU. Surely this must tell the Right Honourable (sic) Members something about the feelings of the little people. Please give us hope, Royston!
I would have thought the “little people” are those 48% that voted to remain. For these people neither the government, nor parliament nor the official opposition have given any effective voice.Does speaking up for nearly half the electorate show contempt for the electorate in general? I would have thought that was the proper role of our representatives in parliament.
Well I was very disappointed in Cameron leaving as a result of the referendum which disturbed me somewhat almost as though he was not expecting it to go against him, having said that I am not a happy bunny that a hedge fund manager is able to interfere with the due process of the government, we elected the government whither it be a good thing or a bad.
I voted to leave the EU for a number of reasons none of had anything to do with Farage, yes I am concerned the way that this government is taking the NHS health to me is a very important aspect of any nation if you have an unhealthy population that is in my books more expensive as a healthy population will produce more when they are healthy I cannot remember who is actually in charge of Health but in my opinion he is starving it of funds almost to the point of extinction by continually bleeding the service of funds that it so dearly needs as things are you will have the NHS leave in droves for greener pastures and that is almost a certainty as all the staff feel that this government does not recognise the good work that the staff do. I voted to leave because I do not wish people who do not recognise that this country of ours which was once great when I left school I had the pick of jobs and have never wanted for work because I wanted to work throughout my life because I believed in the principle that you get nought for doing nought I have tried to instil that principle into my own children and grandchildren I have a daughter who is doing her Master’s degree just as I am very well qualified to have carried out work as building surveyor. As for my grandson, he has done two years in College studying Motor mechanics and yet he cannot get a job in that field as always wanted to do just that. He is unable to get work and not for the lack of effort. Since we became members of the common market back in the 70’s it has been a gradual decline in work and one of the reasons is that nameless and faceless bureaucrats have decide that there should be not only free trade but that there should be free movement of people as well we have increased our population from something like 40 to under 45 million when I was a boy to something like 70 million at present and seems to be increasing. There Were jobs for all there was a degree of security for the population as a whole, and now some people are working for a pittance per week under the part time employment or the practice that Sports Direct and others are and have been using. We were a once proud nation and as a result, we do not know who we are, God forbid if we were ever in a war again there are a lot of people who would simply not fight would not fight for the country simply because they have not got the faith of belief in the UK. And that is a very sad indictment as to how far down the road we have come.
When I was a boy I used to do a lot of cycling all over Scotland I used to love going to the fishing villages dotted all over Scottish coast there were always lots of fishing boats in harbour and now due to the EU a great many of these fishing boat owners where given incentives to sell their boats for scrap so that Spain Portugal France to name but a few and other countries in the EU were all given fishing quotas and dare any fishing vessel exceed their Quotas the would be heavily fined and despite this all this, other fishing vessels can fish within 3 miles of our coast line which in the past it used to be 12 Nautical miles, there are instances of local fishing vessels in the Hebrides no longer being able to fish in their own waters and coves for shell fish and yet foreign vessels can and do fish there some ruining the shell beds that have taken generations to mature. All because EU Dictates, there was a time when the EU was talking about Creating federal states like in America, and that was only in the recent past as quite a number of countries were against such a move.
All I have ever wanted in life is to have a healthy life unfortunately I have not been blessed in that area and was sure glad of the NHS that kept me working despite some major operations in my lifetime all as a result of being born with TB.
And the principle reason I voted out and still would do is we have to look after our own first and foremost if you go to the North East of England and experience the deprivation that Maggie Thatcher left them just as in the industrial heartlands, the town I was born in Greenock on the Clyde had a population of 80,000 nowadays it is nearer 20,000.
We are only a small country that once had a lot of guts and grit since the common market all that has almost become extinct.
In conclusion, I would be a very disappointed native of this country if the main body of Westminster reneged on the vote we had in June all because of hedge fund interfering with the principles of the of the parliament it would also suit that clown Corbyn I have to say I used to be a labour voter but whilst that man is at the helm no chance and as for the egotistical Blair he and he alone destroyed all that.
I voted to leave the EU for many reasons and it had nothing to do with Farage who I consider nothing more than a Beer swilling political Thug hopefully he has nothing more to do with politics, whilst on about Farage it is an affront that those who seem to be supporting a knighthood for the thug are a disgrace to Westminster.
Having said that I would be in uproar if Corbyn and his Cronies managed to muster sufficient support from Westminster to try and stop the implementation of article 50 would do more harm than good and the longer this debacle goes on and a stop to the wishes of the people in gods name why call a referendum in the first place if it is not going to be honoured the populist would have every right to think why have a government that does not listen to its people, it is clear why Corbyn and the Unions want to stay as there is more labour (Workers) protection being in than out he will do his party a lot of Damage if he delays it much further Article 50 should have been implemented well before now as the longer this debacle goes on the more damage to this country it is going to create and although I am a Scotsman I do not have any faith is Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP as to why she is so adamant that Scotland stays within the EU their are far more Trading partners outside of the EU than in it. Unfortunately she has the backing of the most populated area of Scotland Glasgow, I would say that it is 1/2 in 1/2 in Edinburgh and I do know quite a few Intellectuals in Scotland who are getting fed up of the SNP rhetoric and do not support her or the party. At the end of the Day you cannot have an in or out referendum with something like 2 million majority of the population have said Out, “What precedence does that set for the future of Parliament itself”.