THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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The Great Brexit Betrayal – latter-day Cromwell urgently needed

The Great Brexit Betrayal – latter-day Cromwell urgently needed

Re: “No laws broken yet on Brexit, but impasse may require another vote”, Letters, April 27.

The allegation that domestic, EU and international laws have been broken in Britain is being tested in a high court case, “Regina v The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU”, which has been lodged by Robin Tilbrook of the English Democrats. If successful, the court will issue a declaration that the UK Treaties on European Union ceased to apply on March 29, 2019, and that the prime minister and her minister acted illegally. Fingers crossed – Brexit may already have happened!
If it has, what fate awaits Theresa May and her secretary of state? If this were 1319, when democracy was more robust in the wake of the Magna Carta, the two traitors would be marched to the Tower of London, decapitated, their heads dipped in tar and impaled on spikes on London Bridge. The chances of this happening in 2019 are probably rather slim. In the UK’s three-tier justice system, residents of foreign origin are free to pursue their quaint cultural practices of child rape, female genital mutilation, drug-trafficking and inter-tribal warfare on UK city streets, with little interference from the police, who are too busy prosecuting indigenous citizens for complaining about these practices on social media, while those in power remain above the law.
JC’s letter (April 27) and mine (April 1) set out the detail of the unconscionable betrayal of the people’s vote, which should be of concern to those on both sides of the Brexit debate. In the words of constitutional expert Sir Bill Cash MP, the actions of the political establishment have been “like tossing a hand grenade into our constitutional arrangements”. What does the future hold for the rule of law when statutes can be struck down within 24 hours without undergoing proper repeal procedures? Where are Oliver Cromwell and Guy Fawkes when you need them? British democracy, RIP.
Nigel Pike
Phang Nga

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