Britannia waives the rules

So, the Right Dishonourable Prime Minister is going to close down parliament for several weeks. By and of itself, this isn’t illegal but the timing is very suspect. Boris Johnson, just like his mentor in the White House, is a coward. During his race with Jeremy Hunt, he cancelled debate sessions several times. Now on a much larger scale, he’s too frightened to take on his many critics in parliamentary debate during one of the most crucial events in the last 100 years, stifling opposition to get his own way.

There is no mandate of the people – the referendum was nothing more than an opinion poll which stupid or manipulative politicians decided was a crucial and national game changer. It wasn’t necessary to invoke Article 50. The so-called Voice of the People was a 52% lead over the 48% of Remainers. Democracies and election results change – those who want to stay in Europe are at 53%. That figure increases significantly when it comes to the disastrous No Deal option.

Yet here we are being dictated to by a man who was voted in by 0.1% of the population (ie rabidly right wing xenophobic tories) with a party that doesn’t have a clear majority thrusting a deeply unpopular action of great national importance which most of the nation do not want. And to make matters infinitely worse, he has silenced parliament with the pretence that this is business as usual.

How in the name of God did we come to this?