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False Dawns
Dec. 10th, 2018 08:51 amTomorrow is being built up in the media as the final battle that could see the removal of Mays catastrophic government – but sadly, I don’t think that that will happen. After 2 years of trying to undermine and bypass Parliament (trying to make the PM the sole arbiter of power and force Parliament into a take-it or leave-it vote –with the initial connivance of the Ultras), Parliament has finally stepped up and shown some guts.
As such, if May goes ahead and puts her bill to a vote, then she will lose – the only question is ‘how badly’.
This is a given.
However, there is an amendment being voted on today that rejects both Mays deal and a No Deal outcome. This has a good chance of being passed, and would have the twin effect of saving Mays blushes (because there will be no massive rebellion against her deal on a straight up/down vote & that vote would be cancelled) and it will commit the government to preventing a no deal outcome – something May & the Brexit Ultras hate.
We’re likely to see May lose this vote today but because the Ultras don’t want to prevent a no deal, the scale of her defeat will be only a few dozen, not the 100+ that are being talked about. This will be hailed as a massive moral victory for May even though it absolutely isn’t – its a comparison apples & air-fresheners - but why let facts stand in the way of politics?
This madness cannot be allowed to continue unchecked anymore. I understand that May was dealt a bad hand by David ‘lets have a referendum because that will make it all better’ Cameron – but the spivs, xenophobes & lunatics are now firmly in control and I only anticipate chaos & ruin ahead. Just look at the opposition with their equally specious eat-cake-and-still-have-cake plans!
A plague on both their houses. Part of me feels that we would be better served by getting MPs to elect 11 of their number and locking them in an isolated house for a week. If at the end of the week they can’t come up with a plan that will pass the Commons then we should burn the house down, with them inside - and televise their deaths.
Then the MPs should elect another 11 of their members and the process repeated until we either get a vote, or run out of MPs.
Yes, its monstrous. Yes, its illegal and no, of course I wouldn’t want to do it, but there is too great a disconnect between ‘having the power of an MP’ and ‘having the responsibility of an MP’.
Too many MPs can (and do) lie, cheat, bully & spin conspiracy theories and get away with it – and if caught out the worst punishment they get is being defeated at the next election – but they still get a gold-plated pension & cushy job as political position until the next election when they come back as a loyal political hack.
Its horrible. Its undemocratic. Its wrong and I'd never, ever seriously avocate it. But damn, something has to change to make the MPs realise that the stakes they're playing with are monstrously high.
As such, if May goes ahead and puts her bill to a vote, then she will lose – the only question is ‘how badly’.
This is a given.
However, there is an amendment being voted on today that rejects both Mays deal and a No Deal outcome. This has a good chance of being passed, and would have the twin effect of saving Mays blushes (because there will be no massive rebellion against her deal on a straight up/down vote & that vote would be cancelled) and it will commit the government to preventing a no deal outcome – something May & the Brexit Ultras hate.
We’re likely to see May lose this vote today but because the Ultras don’t want to prevent a no deal, the scale of her defeat will be only a few dozen, not the 100+ that are being talked about. This will be hailed as a massive moral victory for May even though it absolutely isn’t – its a comparison apples & air-fresheners - but why let facts stand in the way of politics?
This madness cannot be allowed to continue unchecked anymore. I understand that May was dealt a bad hand by David ‘lets have a referendum because that will make it all better’ Cameron – but the spivs, xenophobes & lunatics are now firmly in control and I only anticipate chaos & ruin ahead. Just look at the opposition with their equally specious eat-cake-and-still-have-cake plans!
A plague on both their houses. Part of me feels that we would be better served by getting MPs to elect 11 of their number and locking them in an isolated house for a week. If at the end of the week they can’t come up with a plan that will pass the Commons then we should burn the house down, with them inside - and televise their deaths.
Then the MPs should elect another 11 of their members and the process repeated until we either get a vote, or run out of MPs.
Yes, its monstrous. Yes, its illegal and no, of course I wouldn’t want to do it, but there is too great a disconnect between ‘having the power of an MP’ and ‘having the responsibility of an MP’.
Too many MPs can (and do) lie, cheat, bully & spin conspiracy theories and get away with it – and if caught out the worst punishment they get is being defeated at the next election – but they still get a gold-plated pension & cushy job as political position until the next election when they come back as a loyal political hack.
Its horrible. Its undemocratic. Its wrong and I'd never, ever seriously avocate it. But damn, something has to change to make the MPs realise that the stakes they're playing with are monstrously high.