WAB Friday

Today, Johnson will take his newly amended WAB back to the Commons for the new Parliament to pass it or reject it.

I will pass.

It will pass with the minimum of delay and most importantly, scrutiny.

Scrutiny is what Johnson feared most, and with his newly won majority, there need not be any. Any from Parliament, nor from the press or media. The public want Brexit over with one way or another so they can think about something else.

Like Christmas.

The WAB puts the WA into legal text for compliance with UK law. What it says is very important and should be critical that Parliament knows what it is signing up for. But it will nod the WAB through like 650 toy dogs that used to sit on parcel shelves in cars in the 70s.

This is going to be a failure on a huge scale by Parliament to do what is there for, to scrutinise the Government's business. Soviet Russia used to rubber stamp things through, is that we have become, a legislature that just rubber stamps? If so, may as well abolish both houses now, as they have little other function.

There is a lot of detail in the WAB other than the three areas covered by the WA, it would be good that Parliament and the electorate knew those, but I guess getting a policy through that will savage rights, protections, jobs and the economy is more important than due process?

This will be a day that will live long on political infamy. Just remember, whatever happens, the WAB is not Brexit. Not all of it. Just a very small part. The main part lies ahead still, maybe stretching on forever.

You have been warned.