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Boris Johnson loses Parliamentary majority, faces Brexit showdown
Britain's Parliament returns from its summer recess and is facing a titanic showdown over Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plans to leave the European Union. Here's what we know:
● Johnson has lost his majority in Parliament, with the defection of Conservative Phillip Lee to the Liberal Democrats.
● The opposition, including members of Johnson's party, is seeking to pass legislation to delay Brexit.
● Johnson has said that if his foes succeed he will call early elections.
List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure
#54: George Canning, 119 days (1827)
#55: Boris Johnson, 40 days (Incumbent) (2019)
See also: Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no-deal vote
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @09:21AM (3 children)
Slight technical correction, UK electorate (NI isn't geographically part of Great Britain), but yes, and all this shite about the 'Deal' is something the politicians added after the fact, we voted on the question of leave, not leave with a deal, but leave...the politicos never wanted Brexit and thought the sheep would swallow their pro-EU propaganda and vote accordingly...but the sheep didnt vote as expected, so they've done their best to 'spanner' the process ever since.
The 'democratic will of the people' has been subverted by the 'sovereign rights of parliament'.
'We, the people' (to borrow a phrase) voted to leave, and that should have been..end of fucking story...alas, the machinations of perfidious quisling politicians...
It's a farce, mind you, there are political silver linings...showing the world the that UK parliamentary democracy is a sham, destruction of the Labour party (a lot of their voters want out of the EU, though you wouldn't think that listening to the MPs, and these voters will have taken note of their actions) destruction of the Tories (always something to be applauded on general principals), dissolution of the act of union (finally...thank fuck)
Of course, there are political downsides, the fuckwits in the Liberal party now think they're important again..and then there's Farage & co..the Little 'Engurlunders' Party..
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @03:40PM (1 child)
Yes, and Vote Leave made all kinds of promises about how leaving wouldn't hurt trade in the slightest, how the new deal with the EU would be the easiest deal ever, how the UK would hold all the cards, etc. That's what people voted for, because that's what the leave option was presented to them as.
Now that reality has turned out to be quite different from all the lies, do you agree We The People should have a chance to say if we still think leaving is a good idea? I think so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:00PM
They never left... reality turned out to be that voting doesn't mean shit in the UK.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @09:03PM
It was a non-binding resolution that most people didn't give two shits about, because it was a non-binding resolution. Then it barely squeaked over the finish line. Now you people cry "the will of the people"??
Maybe if it WAS a binding resolution AND it passed by MUCH more than just a few percent, then you can talk about the will of the people and democratic rule, etc. It was basically just a big Facebook like/dislike quiz.