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Brexit Court Defeat for UK Government

posted by martyb on Friday November 04 2016, @05:55AM   
from the the-government-is-"appealing"? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled.

This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU - on its own.

Theresa May says the referendum - and existing ministerial powers - mean MPs do not need to vote, but campaigners called this unconstitutional.

The government is appealing, with a further hearing expected next month.

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A statement is to be made to MPs on Monday but the prime minister's official spokesman said the government had "no intention of letting" the judgement "derail Article 50 or the timetable we have set out. We are determined to continue with our plan".

Plebiscites only count when plebes vote the way they're told.

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Original Submission

• Re:Any UK folk want to predict parliament's action (Score: 3, Touché) by bradley13 on Friday November 04 2016, @08:35AM

  by bradley13 (3053) on Friday November 04 2016, @08:35AM (#422409) Homepage Journal

  "You don't promote and organize a vote only to then work to annul its results when it doesn't turn out as predicted."

  After the Uprising on June 17th
  The Secretary of the Authors' Union
  Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
  Which said that the people
  Had forfeited the government's confidence
  And could only win it back
  By redoubled labour. Wouldn't it
  Be simpler in that case if the government
  Dissolved the people and
  Elected another?

  Bertholt Brecht

  --
  Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.

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