This morning, a story emerged that Cummings had come up with a way to circumvent the Benn Act, which requires the PM to request an extension of A50 if no deal is struck before October 19.
Apparently, the genius move is to use an obscure function of the Privy Council to suspend the Act until after the 31st.
I am no expert, sounded OK to me.
But like all wheezes thought up by people who know fuck all about what they're dealing with, neither did Cummings and Johnson.
We literally had a Civil War to sort out these things; Parliament is supreme, and if Johnson or Cummings tried anything like this, it would fail on the most basic of legal principles.
As I said many times, Brexit was always stupid, but getting morons to execute it was even more stupid.
And it xomes back to the fact that two of the pillars of Brexit, taking back control, restoring the supremity of Parliament and UK laws by UK judges was just an excuse. When the UK constitution stops them from ruling by decree, they claim coups, unelected judges, the "liberal elite", or the establishment are stopping them. most of them are ex-public schoolboys, OxBridge educated, in cahoots with their old friends to make each other richer.
Nothing to do with the will of the people, just the desire of these fuckers to strip the country any way they can to enrich themselves and their friends.
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You are so right.
All this talk of "the will of the people" by these right-wing populists reminds me of the story of the rise of fascism, that I have occasionally glanced at. The media does not help when it goes places and talks to people: who is standing around waiting to talk to people in the streets? Who is obsessed with such things on social media and turns up to talk to the media? Right-wing thugs, that is who.
I suspect that an election will show that the British people are not nearly so stupid. (As for the referendum, it was a measure of the will of the people, and measures cannot be won or lost, they can only be good or bad; and that referendum was a bad one because a lot of people used it, incorrectly, to signal that they did not like austerity!)
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