Epicurus28 Jan 2019 20:42
Remainers patron saint?
What happened to this country? I know we have imported a lot of very basic skills/ no skills but this cannot account for the abject failure of the HOC to respect what it is - what it should be. If the HOC has no respect for what it is then ER has to dissolve parliament. We cannot have Grieve, Cooper et al being allowed to dictate govt policy.
Under the Westminster system Her Majesty’s Government controls the Parliamentary agenda. Backbenchers should not arbitrarily be able to take away that power. How does this affect the national interest at a time when the Government is negotiating with the EU? Where does power lie? Who controls the legislative agenda? Who is accountable and how? These are all fundamental questions for our democracy, not playthings for anti-Brexit MPs to tinker with.
Some of the present machinations bring our unwritten constitution and Parliamentary system into disrepute. They threaten the viability and integrity of the House of Commons as whole.
People laugh about Trump - but Clinton was 10 times more culpable- both versions - about ethics and probity. We can't pxss all over everything just because we have a HOC Speaker who would have lost his head in Cromwellian times.
Epicurus was never the patron saint of project fear because there will never be any enjoyment for those that refuse to believe in free will - I wan't to break free - said Mercury. AND WE WILL.