At last, after much waiting, Parliament has been prorogued for both the summer party conference season and an extra few days on top of the usual time allowed for the conferences. This slightly longer break will hinder for a time the anti-democratic Remainers on the Opposition benches from using Parliament to stop Brexit. These Remainers have used every trick they can think of to keep Britain in an European Union that the British people knowingly chose to leave. They have misused the procedures of Parliament and a very biased Speaker, John Bercow, to try to hamper the sort of clean break Brexit that over 17 million Britons voted for. The Remainers, including the now woefully misnamed Liberal Democrats, who are now neither classically liberal nor democratic, have even used the Fixed Term Parliaments Act of 2011 to prevent the membership of the House of Commons from facing a re-election fight, a fight that many of the Remain MP’s would surely lose.
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked the Commons to break the current political deadlock by calling an early General Election but the House refused and the Government did not get the two thirds majority it needed to get in order to call an election. We are now in the invidious position of being stuck with a House of Commons dominated by anti-democratic Remainers whose loyalty to both the people of Britain and the Crown is now coming into question. It is a constitution convention that the results of elections are accepted and that Britain, unlike some other parts of the world, changes its government peacefully and with the consent of the population. This convention also in my view applies to Referenda, the results have to be respected even if you as an individual or as a party don’t like them. What we have here is a rogue House of Commons who are defying the expressed will of both Parliament and people by trying to thwart Brexit. It is to me, an observer of British politics for a long while, a most unedifying sight. The Remainer MP’s must have realised that going to the polls in a General Election would be a disaster for them, especially those who have been vocally pro-EU, but who serve constituencies that voted leave in the Referendum. The Remain party, for that is what it has de facto become despite being made up of members of different parties, want to hang onto power for as long as possible to give them as much opportunity as possible to wreck a policy, that of leaving the EU, that we the people chose. It is a spectacular example of political arrogance.
In the House of Commons we have, what could be called, Her Majesty’s Disloyal Opposition. They are disloyal to the voters who want to leave the EU and be an independent nation again and they are disloyal to the Crown as well. We have seen examples of the first disloyalty all through the shenanigans that the Remain party has been involved in since 2016 and in the behaviour of some Labour MP’s who tried to prevent the Speaker from leaving his seat at prorogation and holding up handwritten signs reading ‘silenced’. We also saw some Labour and Opposition MPs refuse to follow the Speaker and Black Rod into the House of Lords to hear the Queens dissolution proclamation. These were actions that were both childish and rude. By refusing to go to the Upper House these refuseniks were in effect saying that the Queen’s proclamation means nothing and they will stay in the House of Commons despite it. This Disloyal Opposition is arrogant beyond belief.
The PM and his team will now have to work overtime in order to get either a better deal from the EU than Theresa May got, something that is unlikely or go cap in hand to Brussels and ask the EU for an extension of membership, which is what the Remain party wants. With the refusal by the Remain party to grant Mr Johnson the election that he asked for and which the Remainers are frightened of, the earliest that we can now have an election is mid November which is past the October 31st deadline for a no deal exit from the EU. All whilst this is going on we have Remainers plotting among themselves and with the EU to keep Britain chained to the bloc. Although the Remainers have been blocked from using Parliament for their plotting, that does not mean that they have been neutralised. We live in tricky political times and I believe that the next few weeks will be crucial in deciding whether the result of the 2016 Referendum is honoured or whether the treasonous Remainers will keep Britain enslaved to a bloc that we chose to leave.
