Apparently, we weren’t asked the right question…
Theresa May’s government is facing a legal challenge over whether it should seek to retain membership of the single market after Brexit.
Lawyers will argue that June’s referendum asked the public a single question over whether the UK should exit the EU, and did not delve into the more complex issue of economic access.
They will argue that parliament should have a say into whether the country could remain in the European Economic Area, in line with other non-EU countries such as Norway.
Sigh… We were asked if we wanted to remain in the European Union. It was a straightforward question and I, for one, understood it perfectly. Did I want the UK to leave the EU? Yes or no? Not do you want it hard or soft? Just in or out. We chose out. Now stop fannying about and get on with it.
Maybe the Queen and the judges should have a look again at the oaths they swore when they accepted office?
Why? They’ve been ignoring them for decades. The Monarch could and should have put a stop to this treason a long time ago (especially as she swore a holy oath to protect our “laws, customs and traditions”)
So don’t expect any change any time soon.
I live in hope, that’s why!
Nothing to do with this at all but knowing that LR ‘does’ road safety: Latest stupidity, a white van with a completely dark rear number plate, but surrounded by a ring of rear-facing white LEDs. Two offences there by my reckoning.
Not dangerous in the slightest. Possibly a way of avoiding being zapped by a speed camera, a box junction camera, a road tax camera, etc. etc. Worth a try for as long as you can get away with it.
If it’s a deliberate attempt to avoid getting caught on a speed camera, the driver is risking prosecution for perverting the course of justice.
It is an offence not to have a rear number plate illuminated at night and it is also an offence to display a white light to the rear, unless reversing. Ditto idiots who display blue LEDs are on a ‘cruisin for a brusin’. Having spent money on this stuff they probably have no money for tyres or insurance!
The fact is that the PTB did not expect the referendum to produce a mandate for out, neither did I come to that. Had it gone the other way I would have had to accept it, that is how democracy works. The purpose of the referendum was to kick the issue into the long grass. Now that they have the result that they really really didn’t want, they are desperately trying to come up with some way to avoid actually implementing what the result clearly demands.
Meanwhile Theresa May is asking God for help and thinking with her gut. My thought is that if she really isn’t up to the job she shouldn’t have applied. I have never in my life tried to blag my way into a job that I knew I couldn’t do. Maybe that is why I’m not the prime minister.
Back in the day the King would just have smartarse people like those locked up in the Tower of London as traitors.
Look on the bright side, LR!! At least now all those liberal-lefty types can blame everything bad that happens for the next half-century on Brexit, rather than blaming it on Thatcher!
Mind you, there’ll probably be a few out there who have become so entrenched in the “blame it on Thatcher” mantra that they’ll actually try to blame Thatcher FOR Brexit. Or the other way around ….
Oh well, at least it makes a change … Ho, hum!