A fresh legal challenge to Brexit is to go ahead after tens of thousands of pounds were raised within just 48 hours to take the case to court.
The challenge, which will now go before Ireland’s High Court, contends Article 50 should be revocable once it is activated.
Ireland?
But the new legal bid argues that the European Council and the European Commission may have breached EU law in relation to Article 50. The case is being brought to Ireland, as an EU member state needs to be named in the legal action and Ireland is the UK’s closest neighbour and has a similar legal system.
These people really are embarrassing themselves now. We had a vote. They lost. That’s it. If they wish to campaign for us to return and a referendum on the matter at some point in the future, then fine, that’s democracy. But to try to overturn the result of a democratic vote is a whole new thing entirely. It is deeply undemocratic.
It is expected the Irish High Court will be reluctant to get involved in the issue at length,
Can you blame them?
Given the nature of Brexit, the potential involvement of European courts in the matter is expected to be controversial for Leave supporters.
Understatement, much?
Seriously, this is desperate stuff from desperate people who were confident that they would win.
He writes: “If we cannot withdraw our Article 50 notification then Parliament will have to accept those agreements – whatever their content. Like a Model T Ford, it will be able to choose any colour it wants, but only so long as it’s black. The Government will have free reign to do exactly what it wants. There will be no control by Parliament.
“But if the notification can be withdrawn Parliament will have a choice: it will be free to reject that deal. And, because the Government knows this, and because it wishes to deliver the result of the Referendum, it will have to try to do the deal that Parliament wants or it will risk the possibility that Parliament throws the deal out.
“So it is only by establishing whether we can revoke Article 50 that Parliament can fulfil its obligation to deliver a Brexit for the 100%.”
Strictly speaking, we don’t need a deal. We can just leave. We can operate a tariff-free trading zone and become a tax haven should we so wish and the EU can take it or leave it. Given that they sell us more than we sell them, it is they who are in the weaker position when it comes to trade deals. So, we don’t need this court case. But, I suppose, if these people want to waste their money, that’s up to them.
During the Labour Party leadership games I thought Liz Kendall came across as the most sensible candidate, indeed if it wasn’t for the inbred ‘hatred’ of Conservatives she seemed to believe in pretty much all that today’s non-conservative Consrvatives believe in.
But post ‘the vote’ and listening to her on Radio 4 last night – ‘the British people didn’t say what sort of Brexit they wanted’ – rubbish I begin to wonder. If I left my wife could I still have sex on Wednesdays or have her mum and dad around for Christmas? What don’t they get about LEAVE? Then there is the ‘we need to take into consideration the views of those who voted to remain’, just like when the Labour Party takes contol of a council with 40% vote on a 30% turnout?
They are getting really desperate aren’t they? Apparently, when I voted to leave the EU I didn’t actually realise that I was voting to leave the EU. Obviously I thought that leaving would mainly involve staying in. If I had known that voting to leave would actually involve leaving I would have voted to stay in because that was obviously what I actually wanted.
In other news, Mrs. Stonyground has just bought a Specialised Ruby carbon fibre road bike frame off the internet. It says ‘Made in Taiwan’ on it. I am presuming that Taiwan must be in the EU, otherwise it would have been impossible for her to buy it.
The Irish high court? What’s Brexit got to do with them? They have no real juresdiction in the UK, except in civil cases, but certainly not in matters Parliamentary or constitutional.