Where the power lies

In order to get its Rwanda policy through Parliament, the Conservative Government passed legislation disapplying inconvenient parts of domestic and international law so the Supreme Court could not overturn the decision to deport asylum seekers.

So far, so facist.

Very early on in the Brexit process, I learned that if how Brexit would work in Northern Ireland, it would work elsewhere.

There are a number of agreements and treaties in regard to Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland, but for the Government it is the Good Friday Agreement which is the most problematic, and as DAG has pointed out, the piece of domestic or international law that Governs Government policy the most.

The parts disapplying the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights were deemed as incompatable with the Good Friday Agreement by a judge in Northern Ireland yesterday. As was widely predicted at the time, and ignored by the then Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who today railed against the Government for allowing this to happen, odd when it was her responsibility as Home Secretary to ensure it would be compatable with domestic and international law.

Maybe she should complain to herself for doing such a poor job.

MP for Penfold, Mark Francois, also raved in the Commons today and demanded the ECHR be renenegotiated, lest we threaten to withdraw.

Yes, its that old Brexit threat again, which worked like a charm in 2016.

Only it didn't.

I try not to comment too much on Brexit and Government policy, and have stated only will do when sensible policies are proposed, because at the moment, we are at the stage of Caligula making his horse a senator kind of end of days.

There is more, but it comes from the mouth of Grant Shapps, and so cannot be trusted to be the truth. And yesterday, being a Monday, the PM tried a reset of his Government, but nobody really noticed.