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Bojo/Brexit News Links 25 September 2019
25 September 2019 • 23:15 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Corbyn cuts through the Brexit chaos and media noise during BBC interview Britain: political crisis deepens as Supreme Court intervenes http://www.marxist.com/britain-political-crisis-deepens-as-supreme-court-intervenes.htm Continue reading
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UK Supreme Court rules Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament illegal
British politics entered uncharted waters yesterday as the Supreme Court—the UK’s highest judicial body—declared illegal Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authoritarian prorogation of parliament. Far from resolving the crisis over Brexit, the ruling has set in motion what one political commentator described as a “constitutional earthquake.” Continue reading
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The Supreme Court, Proroguing & Dangerous Precedents Remainers celebrating the ruling need to consider the greater implications of a judiciary that enforces policy, not law
The Supreme Court has ruled against Boris Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament. Because of course they did, because they were always going to. Continue reading
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Prorogation: Judicial Blowback
The Tory government, under both May and Johnson, has made plain its contempt for the rule of law repeatedly, and not only over the prorogation of parliament. In the last few days we have seen the Tories admit to illegal sales of arms to Saudi Arabia, in direct breach of a ruling by the Court… Continue reading
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Something interesting about Rees-Mogg and a broken oath
We in the UK are on the verge of embracing, if only through resignation, disbelief, tabloid pugilism and sheer damn tiredness, a new variant of despotism. One that will be policed and lubricated by state surveillance if it succeeds – a danger that Paul Mason set out in the Guardian. The comic photo-opportunities of Prime… Continue reading
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