Brexit-bill-vote-withdrawal-agreement-commons-amendment-caroline-lucas-a9274746. Trade talks don’t often make headlines, but they do an essential job: determining workers’ rights, our basic food standards, rights public services and environmental protections, and tackling the climate crisis.
Overseeing the government is an MP's essential democratic duty, and few actions are more consequential than trade deals. MPs deserve a say in them – but Boris Johnson is denying them one. The previous version of Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill included a clause that protected MPs’ involvement in Brexit. But when Johnson was re-elected in December with a large majority, he swiftly removed this clause. Boris Johnson's Victory Is Exactly What the EU Wants. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London, United Kingdom, on Dec. 13, 2019, following his Conservative Party's general election victory.
Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Following Boris Johnson’s decisive victory in the British general election on Thursday, he has an unlikely group of new supporters. European Union leaders in Brussels have taken up Johnson’s slogan: “Get Brexit Done.” The last two years of political paralysis in the United Kingdom have been a kind of purgatory for an EU that would rather think about its own future.
Show this chart to anyone who says Brexit is the 'will of the British people' At this point it's safe to say that the run up to Brexit has not been an easy ride for the Tory government and has also resulted in a nation that is severely divided.
On the one side you have Remain voters: people who strongly believe that we are better as a part of the EU, that we are stronger together and it is this special relationship with our European neighbours that helps make Great Britain to be so great. Then, you have the Leave voters, who think that our pals across the sea are the thing that's holding us back the most. Brexit's dark shadow over the UK economy. Boris Johnson accidentally made an incredibly compelling argument against his own Brexit deal. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson just accidentally made the perfect argument for remaining in the European Union.Speaking in Northern Ireland, Johnson said his proposed Brexit deal would allow the province to keep free movement and access to the European single market and described this as a "great deal.
"These benefits, however, will be lost by the rest of the United Kingdom.This prompts the obvious question as to why his deal denies this to the rest of the UK.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an unusual and very revealing comment Thursday night that inadvertently serves as an incredibly compelling argument against his own Brexit deal. Speaking at a meeting of local Conservatives in Northern Ireland on Thursday evening, the prime minister said: "Actually, Northern Ireland has got a great deal. You keep free movement, you keep access to the single market, but you also, as it says in the deal, have unfettered access" to Great Britain. Parliament-brexit-extreme-undemocratic-election-tactical-voting-a9178101. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many MPs in the current parliament who showed exactly the fighting spirit needed to prevent successive Tory administrations from forcing their various Brexits on the country without proper democratic scrutiny.
MPs from all parties refused to be bullied and stood up to the government’s threats and dubious rhetoric consistently. They did this in the face of threats to their personal safety and widespread abuse. General-election-brexit-boris-johnson-eu-extension-no-deal-a9175851. Since the EU Referendum result in 2016, virtually everyone believed that Brexit would happen unless somehow it could be stopped by MPs on the opposition benches or through strong public pressure.
Almost nobody thought the government would fail to deliver on its promise to make the UK leave the European Union collapsing under the weight of the enormity of this task. What is Jo Swinson playing at giving Boris Johnson his snap election? “WTF” is a fashionable but crude and distasteful little expression that is being used ever more routinely.
I deplore it, but sometimes it cannot, I suppose, be avoided. Now is one such moment. So forgive me, but WTF does Jo Swinson think she is doing giving Boris Johnson his snap election? The consequences of this decision will be grisly. It will likely mean that will have had Tory or Tory-led governments from 2010 to 2024, implementing austerity, neo-Thatcherism and taking the UK out of the EU. I have heard enough of Swinson’s facile, naive, unworldly arguments about the timings of a December election – how no one can ever future proof anything about no deal Brexit, about how a Liberal Democrat government would sort everything out by revoking Article 50 as soon as Swinson arrived in Downing Street.
We’ll tell you what’s true. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. There is a reason why Johnson wants an election now. Boris Johnson and other MPs warned over 'extraordinarily dangerous' Brexit comments by Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused Boris Johnson and other politicians of pouring petrol on a “very polarised and volatile situation” around Brexit.
Justin Welby issued a warning to MPs on all sides that it was “extraordinarily dangerous to use careless comments” amid high tensions that have been linked to a rise in hate crime. He told The Sunday Times he had been shocked by the prime minister’s dismissal of an appeal to moderate his language by a Labour MP as “humbug”. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view.
From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. Boris Johnson can’t stop students from voting – the solution to Brexit is more democracy, not less. In the midst of his anti-democratic, law-breaking, fibbing frenzy, Boris Johnson tried to stop students from voting.
Much like in his conquests against our laws and our people, he failed. EU president Juncker says Boris Johnson lied during Brexit referendum. Jean-Claude Juncker has accused Boris Johnson of spreading “lies” during the Brexit referendum campaign, in his most strongly worded attack on the prime minister yet.
Speaking on Thursday evening the European Commission president said he “should have intervened” in the campaign to point out “bulls***” and falsehoods spread by “Boris Johnson and others”. “They were saying things, some of them – lying. Telling the people things which have nothing to do with our day by day reality,” he told an audience at a think tank in Brussels. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. Brexit-boris-johnson-house-of-commons-dominic-cummings-a9167056. The UK press is reducing Brexit to a crude soap opera, ignoring the real story. A healthy democracy depends on an active citizenry which is able to make informed decisions. That is, in theory, the role of the fourth estate: to help the public understand their own society and the world around them, to hold the powerful to account and to challenge myths and expose uncomfortable truths.
You do not need to be a long-time critic of the British media ecosystem to see those basic functions are not being satisfied when it comes to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. Rather than detailed scrutiny being applied to the most important single political event since the second world war, it has been reduced to a spectacle, a pantomime, all framed on the government’s own terms. I usually punch up, but the views of some Brexiteers are so diabolical I have to make an exception. If you wanted an example of the callous selfishness of hardline Brexiteers, the BBC sure dug one up on the streets of Birmingham. It was another series of vox pops, canvassing the views of “ordinary people”.
(They never seem to take place in Remain areas, but there you go.) “I’m a diabetic. I rely on insulin but I still want to leave,” said one of the people who was interviewed. We’ll tell you what’s true. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. The reporter, appearing shocked, followed up by asking the man if he would think it a price worth paying if his insulin didn’t arrive. The response: “Yeah I do, because we voted to leave.” Now, I usually prefer to kick upwards in these columns, and we’ll get to that, but for this person who is willing to drag me, along with hundreds of thousands of other diabetics and their loved ones, down into a pit with them, I’m going to make an exception.
That man is a first class arse. Then again, perhaps not.