Roy Moore, the losing Republican candidate for Alabama, has said he wants a recount and that God is in control. How can God being in control be democratic?
Brexiteers and the Daily Heil are incandescent that parliament has established the fact of Parliamentary Sovereignty (not that we ever lost it) with the vote in the Commons last night. Stephen Hammond, one of the Tory rebels even got sacked for putting Parliament before party, which shows the depths to which the Tories have sunk. That's not to say that Labour don't have a large number of party apparatchiks who put party before country.
Doubtless there will be Brexiteers calling for blood. They're already talking about getting Tory MPs deselected (which is even more self-defeating than Brexit), but there's no accounting for intelligence and the consequences of actions features low on Daily Mail Readers' list of priorities. I expect the word traitor to be used quite frequently over the next few days.
The government is between a rock and a hard place; to decimate the economy through Brexit, or suffer the wrath of their Brexiteer supporters. Not an enviable choice, as both lead to the destruction of the Tory Party. The only way out of this impasse is to pass the buck back to the electorate and hope sense will prevail next time. When the facts change (or what were sold as facts by Boris, Farage, et al), most people change their minds - I'm not sure what Brexiteers do.
Someone needs to bring a balance to The Force.
Brexiteers and the Daily Heil are incandescent that parliament has established the fact of Parliamentary Sovereignty (not that we ever lost it) with the vote in the Commons last night. Stephen Hammond, one of the Tory rebels even got sacked for putting Parliament before party, which shows the depths to which the Tories have sunk. That's not to say that Labour don't have a large number of party apparatchiks who put party before country.
Doubtless there will be Brexiteers calling for blood. They're already talking about getting Tory MPs deselected (which is even more self-defeating than Brexit), but there's no accounting for intelligence and the consequences of actions features low on Daily Mail Readers' list of priorities. I expect the word traitor to be used quite frequently over the next few days.
The government is between a rock and a hard place; to decimate the economy through Brexit, or suffer the wrath of their Brexiteer supporters. Not an enviable choice, as both lead to the destruction of the Tory Party. The only way out of this impasse is to pass the buck back to the electorate and hope sense will prevail next time. When the facts change (or what were sold as facts by Boris, Farage, et al), most people change their minds - I'm not sure what Brexiteers do.
Someone needs to bring a balance to The Force.
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