Notices tagged with brexit, page 7

The New York Times has published an image that explains the #prorogation of the British #parliament by #BorisJohnson. It‘s 3 days of forced vacation followed by 3 days of distraction plus a block to carry over legislation into a newly defined session. And since the #UK doesn‘t have a #constitution all this is perfectly valid. #BoJo can legally do with parliament whatever he wants. In the UK the leader of the executive also is never elected by legislation, so #Johnson as #primeminister is also valid, and he naturally sees the #houseofcommons as an enemy. A house that by the way only comprises the winners of their constituencies and does not reflect the majorities of the #parties in the #election, anyway. But all this is what they call #democracy and this is why the #Brexit is such a mess. It‘s why there is a brexit #debate at all. Point is, right now, the debate is over. There will be no #newdeal with the #EU and the #maydeal is dead. It‘s #leave with #nodeal or #remain, and the parliament does not want to remain, so there‘s nothing left to debate. It‘s all about the upcoming elections after the #nodealbrexit, already. I really wish the UK would remain in the EU, but that would require a #finalsay in a second #referendum which is not in sight, because there is no agreement on the new #question and no plan what to do with the #answer. The UK is still taken #hostage by it‘s political class like it has been for years, and that makes me deeply sad.

#Brexit %%%

RT @SkyNews@twitter.com

A Portuguese national interrupted an interview to speak passionately to Sky News during protests against prorogation, saying she had "given her youth" to the UK

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