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From: hex@unseen.ac.am
On 14/10/2019 18:16, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> In article ,
> Norman Wells wrote:
>> On 14/10/2019 15:08, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Norman Wells wrote:
>>>> On 14/10/2019 10:41, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
>>>>> In article ,
>>>>> Norman Wells wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> The problem is that Brexiteers have not been leading the process.
>>>>>> Remainers, aided and abetted by a Remainer Parliament, have been doing
>>>>>> that. We've only had someone properly interested in achieving Brexit
>>>>>> since we've had Boris as PM. And that's not very long.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now describe the major differences between his deal and May's.
>>>
>>>> Stop asking difficult questions.
>>>
>>>> At least he's said we will be out on 31 October, deal or no deal.
>>>
>>> I take it you are in favour of government by dictator?
>
>> Not everything can be decided or negotiated by committee. Sometimes,
>> the power has to be given to one person.
>
>> We've always given certain powers to just the Prime Minister. It's
>> nothing new.
>
> Lets just analyse that. You think it OK for Boris to take us out with no
> deal, but not OK if May had tried to impose her deal?
>
>>>> If
>>>> anything prevents that, it will be the Benn Act, passed hobblingly by a
>>>> Remainer Parliament.
>>>
>>> Odd, isn't it? The way leave went on and on about regaining
>>> sovereignty. And when that sovereignty bites them on the arse, call
>>> foul.
>
>> We haven't regained any sovereignty if Parliament prevents us from
>> regaining it, which seems its intention.
>
> Sovereignty effectively *is* parliament, in the UK.
Not when it's trying to prevent us having it.
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