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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, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday September 13 2017, @10:05AM (1 child)
I congratulate Prime Minister May on her successful coup. The American and British peoples have been friends and allies for many, many decades. The UK was a pillar in the Cold War against communism. It was a bastion against Soviet expansion. And British courage in war is legendary. That is so true. British soldiers fought bravely alongside of American soldiers in the Korean War, and we haven’t forgotten what they did. In some ways, when we looked at their great bravery in the fight of Korea -- and in Korea, it was just something that our soldiers and our great generals still remember. Supreme Commander General Douglas MacArthur singled out and praised the exemplary valor of the British soldier -- said, some of the great soldiers of the world. Today we face a new enemy in the fight against terrorism, and again we seek to face this threat together. The British people have faced horrible terrorist attacks in recent years and even recently. We offer our compassion to the victims, and we offer our support to the British nation. We support the UK in the fight against terror and terror groups like ISIS and al Qaeda, and ensure they have no safe quarter, the terror groups. Prime Minister May has become a dictator who disregards the will of the UK Parliament. I congratulate her on her victory and look forward to killing terrorists with her. We won’t read them the rights. We won’t talk. They're terrorists, it's over. 🇺🇸
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @10:24AM
Mr Trump, just make sure we ban travel from the UK. The shoe bomber was a British terrorist. They have a long history of terrorism. Leftists who oppose Dictator May will try to escape and infiltrate the US. BAN THEM!