Monday 10 October 2016

Unfinished Article

Of course MPs would have to vote on the repeal of the European Communities Act, should the Government or a Private Member ever propose such a thing.

And of course MPs would have to vote on enacting into law such terms for withdrawal as the Government had negotiated, should there ever be any.

But a Commons division on Article 50, which happened either on the day of the referendum result or not at all (as Jeremy Corbyn made clear on that day), would be a plain and simple waste of parliamentary time.

Without Article 50, the United Kingdom will never and can never leave the European Union.

And we remain, so to speak, without Article 50.

9 comments:

  1. Article 50, which happened either on the day of the referendum result or not at all

    I don't know if you were asleep this week, but the Government has confirmed Article 50 will be invoked by March.

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    1. Believe it when you see it. When it doesn't happen, then David Davis will resign. If he hadn't already, on some other point of principle.

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  2. We are never leaving. Peter Hitchens has always said so and in a way so have you. What matters now is keeping the focus on the Labour areas that swung it by voting Leave.

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    1. Proceeding nicely. Although there is a certain media and academic rearguard action against that one. But we can see it off. And we will.

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    2. Yes, I've noticed that. They are completely spooked by the referendum result but they don't even have the words for the fact it was won where it was, so they have to pretend it wasn't.

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    3. Nothing makes any sense to them anymore. They hadn't actually expected the Conservative overall majority.

      But they do not know where to begin with the disappearance of the Lib Dems, the election of Jeremy Corbyn, the huge increase in Labour Party membership, the emergence of Momentum, the Conservative second place in Scotland, the EU referendum result, the areas that decided it (which vote Labour, Lib Dem or Plaid Cymru for other purposes), the resignation of David Cameron, the coronation of Theresa May, the sacking of George Osborne and Michael Gove, the failure of the Labour coup, the collapse of UKIP into literal violence, the re-election of Corbyn, May's adoption of great chunks of his programme, the abandonment of the Budget surplus target, or the refusal of the nation to dance in the streets at the potential return of Tony Blair.

      All that, and the Murdoch Empire, or at least its British outpost, is about to be litigated into oblivion as a result of the conviction of Mazher Mahmood.

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  3. There'll never a Commons majority to repeal the European Communities Act. Ukip is now a full scale fist fight between wannabe Tories and the people who want to kill them, TUSC is waiting to be let back into the Labour Party. They were never very likely to have 326 MPs between them but they certainly never will now.

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    1. TUSC want back into the Labour Party? Not the Tory Party that has abandoned the Budget surplus target and the WCA, wants workers' reps on boards, wants to ban foreign takeovers, wants to restrict pay differences inside companies, wants huge spending on infrastructure and housing, has set up an Industrial Strategy Department, and could even be holding an inquiry into Orgreave? Well, I never.

      But remember, everyone thinks Corbyn is a loon and McDonnell is the devil. Plus Sunderland and Hartlepool are in the South and full of immigrants, because the referendum was decided in the South and on immigration, it was, it was, IT JUST WAS!

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    2. Corbyn and McDonnell ought to have demanded more at the Labour Conference. They'd have got it at the Tory Conference.

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