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A controversial motion that will grant the government the power to force through Brexit legislation has been passed.
[...] It means the Conservatives, despite not winning a majority at the general election, will take control of a powerful Commons committee, and grant themselves the power to force through legislation without it being voted on or debated in parliament.
With parliament needing to change, amend or import wholesale thousands of laws and regulation to prepare the UK for its exit from the European Union, the EU Withdrawal Bill has been designed to allow for new laws and regulations to be passed via controversial legislative device called a statutory instrument, which are debated in tiny standing committees.
But the government has now voted to give itself a majority on the little known Committee of Selection, which decides the make up of those committees, and in so doing has seized control of the whole process.
[...] Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Alistair Carmichael commented: "This is a sinister power grab by an increasingly authoritarian Prime Minister.
"The Tories didn't win a majority at the election, but are now hijacking Parliament to try and impose their extreme Brexit on the country.
"It is a bitter irony that Brexiteers who spent their careers championing parliamentary sovereignty have now chosen to sell it down the river.
Source: The Independent
(Score: 4, Interesting) by isostatic on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:43AM (11 children)
http://newsthump.com/2017/09/11/parliamentary-sovereignty-not-that-important-as-long-as-government-does-what-i-want-clarifies-angry-brexiter/ [newsthump.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:12AM (4 children)
I wonder how that person intends to make sure that is the case.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:36AM (1 child)
Only with furious anger, because great vengeance will not be available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:02PM
How about great justice? Shall I prepare the Zigs for takeoff?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:14PM (1 child)
That site is satire, so not a quote from a real person.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday September 15 2017, @07:27AM
True, the kind of person it's lampooning doesn't understand what this law means.
(Score: 2) by qzm on Wednesday September 13 2017, @11:13AM (5 children)
Yes yes.. It's not hard to find racist little shits pretty much anywhere, and they are easy to bait in to stupid quotes.
However the point here is this is not a majority government... That's why they would not be doing this, it's not really brexit related.
The UK has some big problems, some of which are it's fault, some are the fault of the EU.
The next election could be very very interesting to say the least.
Perhaps the apathetic Brits can finally be shaken in to action over their collapsing democracy. Who knows.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by turgid on Wednesday September 13 2017, @12:07PM (2 children)
There is a very real possibility that the UK will cease to exist in its current form some time in the next two to five years. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar are three examples.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:24PM (1 child)
And about bloody time, too. I say to each their own, including England for the English.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:54PM
You are Nigel Farage and I claim my €5.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 5, Informative) by tonyPick on Wednesday September 13 2017, @12:52PM (1 child)
Uh... Everybody here knows that NewsThump is "UK Spoof News and Satire", right? I mean it's clearly what many Brexiters actually *think*, but it's probably not an actual quote...
From the about page....
So. like Fox News, only funny.
Hell, then next article down is Monster fatberg named Foreign Secretary [newsthump.com]
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:00PM
So, Poe's Law in action?
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.