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Brexit Court Defeat for UK Government

posted by martyb on Friday November 04 2016, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly
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.

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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  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Friday November 04 2016, @02:04PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Friday November 04 2016, @02:04PM (#422472) Journal

    sample of a comment from The Guardian: (16 upvotes)

    "Some of the things that bind all these socially divisive newspapers;
    They are owned by alleged tax avoiding billionaires;
    The Sun - Rupert Murdoch, American who lives in the US.
    The Mail - Lord Rothermere, lives in France, inherited his non-domiciled UK tax status and channels business money through Rothermere Continuation Ltd based in Bermuda.
    Daily Express - Richard Desmond has interesting tax arrangements with Luxembourg which reduces his company's corporation tax.
    The Telegraph - David and Fred Barclay, live on private island Brecquou, near Sark. All their companies; The Ritz, Littlewoods and The Telegraph are each controlled by offshore trusts. The Barclays successfully managed to sue HMRC for a £1.2 billion refund over VAT miscalculations and the compound interest that accrued over the period when the error occurred, which interestingly pre-dated their ownership of Littlewoods. (I wonder who their accountants were? Any guesses?)
    And they all supported the Conservatives in 2010.
    These are indeed frightening times when all of our most right-wing dangerously patriotic and divisive newspapers are dictating the agenda and are owned by the types of people whose behaviour most people are thoroughly fed up with.
    What a really sick country we have become.
    "

    Article from the Daily Mail:
    Enemies of the people: Fury over 'out of touch' judges who have 'declared war on democracy' by defying 17.4m Brexit voters and who could trigger constitutional crisis

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3903436/Enemies-people-Fury-touch-judges-defied-17-4m-Brexit-voters-trigger-constitutional-crisis.html [dailymail.co.uk]

    I must say I'm pleasantly surprised by the comments on the Daily Mail site (haven't read all 6000 of them), there's no "lynch the judges!!" comment to be found, the highest upvoted comments are all quite calm and reasonable.

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  • (Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Friday November 04 2016, @10:14PM

    by purple_cobra (1435) on Friday November 04 2016, @10:14PM (#422648)

    They did change one of the headlines though, the original of which was along the lines of "Oh noes! One judge is teh pooftah!".

    If every single Daily Fail reader was abducted by aliens, nothing of value would be lost. Except, perhaps, the chance of the aliens coming back to see what the normal people are like.