Crimson Dynamo
27-01-2019, 01:57 PM
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The establishment is waging war on Brexit on all fronts. In Parliament, it aims to overturn the referendum result with amendments to Theresa May’s
withdrawal plan – itself a dreadful deal, but Remainers are consciously trying to make it worse. First, they want to take the no-deal default Brexit option off the table;
second they want to delay leaving the EU by extending Article 50. This would be like tying
Britain’s arm behind its back and then pushing it back into the negotiating chamber. Remainers are gambling either that Mrs May returns with a Brexit so soft that it would be pointless,
or that the project is cancelled altogether.
Outside Parliament, the establishment is trying to tinker with the very machinery of democracy. The sheer nerve of the Electoral Commission is remarkable.
Its capacity to err is a matter of fact – such as when it misinterpreted the referendum spending rules – and the Telegraph has exposed the pro-Remain statements of some members of its board.
We believe there is strong reason to scrap the commission and start all over again. And yet, astonishingly, it now wants the power to launch criminal proceedings against political parties and referendum campaign groups.
Senior members of the commission even believe they can get this authority without parliamentary legislation – they would simply alter its enforcement policy, following a public consultation.
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The commission’s attempts to turn itself into a Tudor-style “star chamber” are part of a wider picture of elite bias.
It should never be forgotten that the EU referendum was not held under fair circumstances: not only did the Remain side enjoy the endorsement of the British state, big business and foreign governments,
but it also got a subsidy of £9 million in the form of a taxpayer-financed propaganda leaflet. Of course, when rules are broken by any side there needs to be investigation –
but the commission cannot play prosecutor and judge, especially when the potentially partisan views of some of its members are a matter of record.
Most voters don’t want to go on litigating the referendum result. They want the Government to get on with what they voted for – Brexit.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/01/27/establishment-trying-break-brexit/
The establishment is waging war on Brexit on all fronts. In Parliament, it aims to overturn the referendum result with amendments to Theresa May’s
withdrawal plan – itself a dreadful deal, but Remainers are consciously trying to make it worse. First, they want to take the no-deal default Brexit option off the table;
second they want to delay leaving the EU by extending Article 50. This would be like tying
Britain’s arm behind its back and then pushing it back into the negotiating chamber. Remainers are gambling either that Mrs May returns with a Brexit so soft that it would be pointless,
or that the project is cancelled altogether.
Outside Parliament, the establishment is trying to tinker with the very machinery of democracy. The sheer nerve of the Electoral Commission is remarkable.
Its capacity to err is a matter of fact – such as when it misinterpreted the referendum spending rules – and the Telegraph has exposed the pro-Remain statements of some members of its board.
We believe there is strong reason to scrap the commission and start all over again. And yet, astonishingly, it now wants the power to launch criminal proceedings against political parties and referendum campaign groups.
Senior members of the commission even believe they can get this authority without parliamentary legislation – they would simply alter its enforcement policy, following a public consultation.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/4AAA/production/_92241191_mediaitem92241189.jpghttp://cdn.frontlinegenomics.com/wp-content/uploads/david-cameron.jpg
The commission’s attempts to turn itself into a Tudor-style “star chamber” are part of a wider picture of elite bias.
It should never be forgotten that the EU referendum was not held under fair circumstances: not only did the Remain side enjoy the endorsement of the British state, big business and foreign governments,
but it also got a subsidy of £9 million in the form of a taxpayer-financed propaganda leaflet. Of course, when rules are broken by any side there needs to be investigation –
but the commission cannot play prosecutor and judge, especially when the potentially partisan views of some of its members are a matter of record.
Most voters don’t want to go on litigating the referendum result. They want the Government to get on with what they voted for – Brexit.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/01/27/establishment-trying-break-brexit/