UK Parliment

So lets debate this please

Was it right for Boris and the Tories to close Parliment

Was it right that the UK Supreme court overruled this

Is it right MP's are back at Parliment

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ArtieKat · M

I don't think it was within the remit of the Supreme Court to intervene in an essentially political matter. The length of prorogation has been exaggerated out of all proportion - parliament would [u]not[/u] have been sitting during the conference season. This whole affair has been a cynical move by Parliament to avoid carrying out the wishes of a majority mandate because our elected representatives think they know better than us, the public.

MartinII · 70-79, M

@ArtieKat And a cynical move by the Supreme Court to bolster its position. That such a self-evidently controversial and novel constitutional judgment should have been unanimous is deeply suspicious. I think the Court will come to regret its decision - perhaps at the hands of a future Labour government!

ArtieKat · M

@MartinII I wasn't going to mention how suspicious the unanimous decision was - but I do agree.....

firefall · 61-69, M

@ArtieKat there IS no majority mandate. Do you understand anything at all about the original referendum?
Silly question I know, you've demonstrated you don't already.

ArtieKat · M

@firefall
[quote] Do you understand anything at all about the original referendum?[/quote]

Don't patronise me. You evidently would like to deny the result of the Referendum - no "original" about it!

Regfries · M

@ArtieKat Boaty McBoatface casts a long shadow ...

milkymum1 · 31-35, F

@MartinII I really can't see the problem with a Labour government , I mean they can't be any worse than what we have had for the last few years under MAy and now Boris!!!!

ArtieKat · M

@milkymum1 Under Tony Blair - or even Gordon Brown - I wouldn't totally disagree. All the Labour politicians with any capability disappeared a long time ago.

SW-User

@ArtieKat I know you're from Liverpool Ant and isn't that where Luciana 'I change my party more often than I change my underwear' Berger is an MP? She was Labour but quit the party (rightly) over anti-Semitism , joined Change , realised that as a political organisation an ostrich had more chance of getting off the ground , switched to the anti-democratic Liberal Democrats and has now announced she won't stand in Wavertree next time round but instead contest a seat in London

ArtieKat · M

@SW-User No surprises there, Kelly!

SW-User

@ArtieKat She was a Blair babe wasn't she? Ushered in from the privaliged south to a constituency she had zero interest in

MartinII · 70-79, M

@milkymum1 Well, the problems with a prospective Labour government are a) a reactionary socialist economic policy and b) a foreign policy that puts the interests of other countries ahead of those of the UK. Still, I agree with you that it’s difficult to imagine anything worse than Mrs May!