The Brexit Traitors

As I have said many times before, one of the pillars on which Brext was built, was restoring Parliamentary Sovereignty, even if, in the withdrawal Bill, the Government states that always had it.

So, when the withdrawal bill was sent to the HoL, the Lords saw fit to to insert some clauses and amendments to reduce the power of Ministers and insert some oversight and scrutiny. In short, just what the upper house, any upper house is supposed to do.

But we are living in strange times, when lies are truth and the rest is dismissed.

Using the referendum as the will of the people, the Mail and Express went to town this morning, the Mail really going full on gammon, with "traitors in ermine" and demanding Lords reform. The Express calling the Duke of Wellington (yes, really) who tabled one of the amendments as "Brexit Wrecker".

As I have said before, Brexit is going to happen unless UK, and the Government in particular, decides it won't. Brexit will happen in a little over ten months, ready or not. And UK was clearly not ready.

But about that HoL reform: the last attempt to reform it, failed after several familiar Brexiteer MPs scuppered it, the list included some very familiar names:

Jacob Rees-Mogg
David Davis
Steve Baker
Philip Davies
Nadine Dorries
John Redwood
Bernard Jenkin
Bill Cash
Penny Mordaunt
John Whittingdale
Edward Leigh
Philip Hollobone
Andrew Bridgen
Anne Main

Like Brexit and Democracy, these only believe in the reform they agree to. Same for Brexit really

. And it appears that the Commons can use the 1949 Parliament Act to get round the amendments, but to do that the act would have to be introduced in a separate session of Parliament, and you may remember that the PM decided that this was going to be a two-year session, so using the Parliament Act would delay its introduction into Parliament until the autumn of 2019, several months after Brexit. Another own goal by the PM? I am no constitutional law expert, and there may be a little known work-round, but riding roughshod, or even trying to, all the name of Brexit demeans the democracy we're supposed to be protecting.

And Labour: still deciding among itself whether it is going to honour its own manifesto and Conference approved policy of backing staying in the SM. It seems no, this breaking Corbyn's promise of the party's policies being member-decided.

Its an omnishambles.