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Boris Johnson is not leading the country at present he is attempting to dictate to the people and deny them the representation of their elected members ie parliament !

https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/presidents_en
https://fullfact.org/europe/how-eu-works-who-runs-eu/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/21168839

The UK parliament as chosen to have things the way they are, it was'nt forced on them

You need to do some checking of the facts repression
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/8/how-are-the-commission-president-and-commissioners-appointed
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/07/14/does-it-make-sense-to-refer-to-eu-officials-as-unelected-bureaucrats

I would luv to be able to say more but I am worn to silence , but you are right Rebess there are governments already involved and others are expressing keen interest especially since recent events regarding trade wars and parliamentary suspensions

Fair comment Rebess!
Still it is a Friday and they usually spank gold & Centamin to panic people or push them thru their stops on Monday open up!

A popular claim by many supporters of the Leave campaign is that the EU is run by ‘unelected bureaucrats’. How much truth is there behind that claim?
This claim mainly refers to the EU Commission: the EU’s executive body. It is true that the Commission President and the individual Commissioners are not directly elected by the peoples of Europe. So, in that sense, we cannot “throw the scoundrels out”. It is also true that under the provisions of the EU treaty, the Commission has the sole right to propose EU legislation, which, if passed, is then binding on all the EU member states and the citizens of these member states.
But, that’s not the end of the story. First, the Commission’s power to propose legislation is much weaker than it at first seems. The Commission can only propose laws in those areas where the EU governments have unanimously agreed to allow it to do under the EU treaty. Put another way, the Commission can only propose EU laws in areas where the UK government and the House of Commons has allowed it to do so

hedgehog the EU has certainly listened and quite so also the views and needs of whole of the Irish & Scottish people also members of the UK.
What Brexiteers choose to ignore is all the bother and expense this has our European partners .
They also ignore that the information they were given about the advantages of Brexit was very inaccurate.
Read unbiased facts here https://fullfact.org/europe/claim-about-uks-eu-contribution-correct-meaningless/Remember the MP's that are in power now were elected after the EU referendum.
Since the referendum some that voted have died and other have become eligible to vote which considering 3 years has elapsed they should be allowed to do.
The statement that the EU does not listen to us is complete rubbish , the UK has influenced many major decisions and could have influenced many more if if it chose to.
The UK has chosen not to apply for many millions of euro's worth of available grants for deprived area;s and yet Brexiteers critisise other countries that are sensible,e enough to take advantage these grants ?

I have to disagree, men & women died to get the vote and we can do something if we show an interest , we can certainly write to our political representatives and we can certainly vote.
Having worked in local government let me assure you the people can influence change, if they make the effort, even easier now with social media.
Some politicians still count on the apathy of the people ,which is why it is important to let them know our views and even more important to vote!
I am sure you do care about your family which is why you should care about politics, after all they have great influence over your family's future prospects and the type of world they will be living in after even after you have gone.
Politics influences everything, look at how the political situation in Egypt has influenced the prospects and share price of Centamin , consider how the foreign policy and political action of Trump effected the POG and the Centamin share price.
If you have come onto this forum expecting it to be like the any others on the web then you have come to the wrong forum .
On here everything and anything is discussed because most of it is related in some way or other to the POG and Centamin
Incidentally for some months now a working group of UK politicians have been looking into the market manipulation of precious metals prices prices by comex paper trading, also considering and the detrimental effects that this has not only on countries finances and environments, but also how it affects the livelihoods of the ordinary miners and the surrounding communities.
A tremendous amount of work has gone into this study and the outcome and possible regulation changes if implemented may well bring about some very significant changes for the better in the precious metals markets.

Sadly Supercharger Boris only really cares about his own self interests , although I agree he holds great appeal for the selfish and greedy.
His recent actions are despicable and an insult to our elected parliament.
There are far more important things ii life then amassing wealth at any cost, as some may come to realise one day.

Boris is shallow and gives no attention to the actual detail of seeing any project through, his performance as Mayor of London is testament to that, what he did do usually wasted the tax payers money and delivered poor if any value at all for money!
https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/03/londons-boris-bikes-might-be-shut-down/
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/feb/29/boris-johnson-london-mayor-elections

How Boris Johnson got his sums wrong
At the top of the queue is of course Boris Johnson. Although he can be surprisingly camera shy when it comes to defending fare rises or the fiasco of the delays over the tube upgrade programme, on this issue he simply can’t wait to get in front of a television camera. Some might think this is a bit surprising as his transport manifesto actually claimed the bike hire scheme would involve no public expenditure, when in reality the long standing contract will cost as much as £140 million.

Yet for Boris Johnson this is a minor detail and the only thing that really matters is that he takes sole credit for the scheme. Indeed speaking on Channel 4 News he used the opportunity to demolish the idea that his predecessor at City Hall should be associated with the scheme.
https://www.libdemvoice.org/londons-bike-hire-scheme-20713.html

I am afraid that Boris visiting the Queen in his role as PM does not signify that he she gets on with him any better or even approves of him anymore than when any other of our PM's WHO visited her on official business.
The queen has to comply with the constitution and is obligated to remain politically neutral so she may or may not like Boris and she may or may not agree with suspending parliament.
So in reality the queen has no choice in the matter.
Incidentally it is rumoured from a reliable source that the queen did like Harold Wilson when he was PM but that she wasn't that keen on Margaret Thatcher!
HAROLD WILSON (1964-70,74-76)
Wilson was the first Labour PM of the Queen’s reign and the pair formed a surprise friendship, with Wilson providing the Queen with a window on her ordinary subjects – something his aristocratic predecessor could not do. Their meetings became relaxed affairs and he famously described his visits as “going to see mother”. “Harold was very fond of her and she reciprocated it,” said Labour Cabinet minister Barbara Castle. “He made her feel at ease and kept her well-informed.”
MARGARET THATCHER (1979-90)
She was the only female prime minister and the one closest to the Queen’s age but that did not mean they got on. Relations were famously stiff and the Queen was said to refer to her as “that woman”. The problem was not lack of respect – nobody would curtsey lower, it was said – but the Queen was a traditionalist while her prime minister wanted to change everything. Neither did Mrs Thatcher share the monarch’s passion for the outdoors – on the last day of a trip to Balmoral her cases would be packed long before leaving time. The Queen made little secret of her fury when the US invaded the Commonwealth island of Grenada on Mrs Thatcher’s watch
I can quite understand why the queen did not take to that odious old crone with heart of stone and brain of Mekon Thatcher!
http://www.dandare.org/dan/aliens/mekon.htm

A fair summing up of the situation for our Australian friend Gnome Pushme!

Hedgehog, think about the implications of what Boris has done, he has set a very dangerous president of trying to deprive the electorate of the representation of their democratically elected representation in their parliament just to suit his own political aim's!
The MP's you accuse of dithering were actually elected by the people AFTER the EU referendum and they were doing what they were elected to do which act in the best interests of their constituents and the country.
The brexiteers are re fond of claiming they want freedom from being dictated to and democracy and yet they seem quite happy to accept a jumped up dictator suspending democracy just so that he can launch the UK into the abyss and possibly kick off another financial meltdown in the UK

Firstly the EU is not being difficult it is simply asking us to abide by the terms & conditions of our membership.
The UK has benefited tremendously from various EU funding over past years for all sorts of different projects and certain deprived areas of the UK could have benefited even more, the EU money was available (many millions of euro's), but it didn't suit the local Tory MP's to ask their MEP's to apply for the funding, far better to keep the people ignorant of what is available and stoke up animosity toward Europe by feeding them Farage & Boris propaganda .
I can remember having to grit my teeth when the local MP and senior local politicians refused to approach the area's MEP for assistance in obtaining available funding for several high speed internet projects which if installed would have resulted in several large companies setting up new facilities that would have created many local jobs!
However some area's such as Cornwall have applied and received complete EU funding for such projects,every year there is also EU money available for funding public transport, environmentally friendly community power generation projects, sports and well being projects, the art's, deprived communities, children and social and well being projects, yet many of local politicians and MP's are either unaware , choose to be unaware, are simply too lazy too apply or don't want to approach their MEP colleagues because they see it as demeaning or not complying with central party policy!
The UK g
overnment is aware that two-thirds of any EU funding will in effect be deducted from the rebate and come out of UK government funds. ... The British government has resisted campaigns to abolish the rebate and the UK has a veto on any decision by the EU to do so.
The UK pays more into the EU budget than it gets back.
In 2018 the UK government paid £13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was forecast to be £4 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at nearly £9 billion.
Each year the UK gets a discount on its contributions to the EU—the ‘rebate’—worth about £4 billion last year. Without it the UK would have been liable for £17 billion in contributions.
https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million/

This makes a complete mockery of what that idiot Boris is spending on Bexit!

Quite so , unfortunately the lemmings are being led by a lunatic in Downing Street under the influence of an even bigger lunatic in the White House!

Outlining a new program of legislation, UK Premier Johnson today asked Her Majesty the Queen to end what is now the longest continuous session of UK political business since the 'Long Parliament' of the 1640s' civil war ended 4 years after the beheading of King Charles I.

Proroguing Parliament would reduce the time for opposition MPs to block a "no deal" Brexit on Halloween, Johnson's repeated aim should he fail to win any concessions from the European Union on the Withdrawal Agreement already proposed.

Called "a threat to our democracy" by opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a "constitutional outrage" by House of Commons speaker John Bercow, and "a coup d'etat" by one German think-tank, most of Johnson's prorogation would in fact coincide with the shutdown already booked thanks to the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats' annual party conferences.

Glad you found this Cowichan, confirms what Andrew Maguire has been stating for some time now

https://fullfact.org/law/proroguing-parliament/
You don't know that the Queen actually approves of suspending parliament, unfortunately the Queen has no real choice but to take the advice e of the prime minster.
The only tiny, tiny piece of real political power the queen still has is that she can dissolve parliament and call for new elections. ... The prime minister controls parliament in the sense that he or she is in control of the governing coalition of parliament. The prime minister is also the head of state
The Queen can instruct the Governor-General to dismiss a Prime Minister (and, it's worth noting that there's no constitutional or legal requirement for the Governor-General to follow the Queen's instructions), but she can't dismiss the Prime Minister herself.
What so many Brexiteers choose to forget is that there was a general election after the Brexit referendum and the MP's that are against leaving the EU without a deal were elected.
Boris id behaving rather like some third world dictator and is in danger of setting a president that would allow any future PM to undermine the proles democratically elected MP'S when ever it suited.
As you state Boris may have balls, but remember it won't be his balls that will be on the block when this all goes horribly wrong, it will be the ordinary people who will be paying the price for many years to come whist Boris and the odious character Farage will have moved on elsewhere..

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/civilwar/overview/rump-dissolved/

Sterling slumped 1% to $1.2168 overnight after Boris Johnson said he would ask the Queen to suspend parliament days after MPs return from their summer recess in September.

The highly controversial move, known as "proroguing," will be seen as an attempt by the government to force through Brexit with or without a deal by Oct. 31, one of Johnson's key promises upon taking power.

Breaking from strategies to topple the prime minister, opposition parties on Tuesday signaled intent to unite in creating a law to block a forced no-deal Brexit.