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😡Brexit and Those Duplicitous Lords!😡

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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It seems that, in their endeavours to halt Brexit, our Lordships have hatched an ambitious plan to overrule both the House of Commons and the UK electorate!

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The former MP Douglas Hogg, now Viscount Hailsham the younger, has put down amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill designed to place the power over Brexit in the hands of those in our Upper House.

This is explained by Christopher Howarth in a piece for Brexit Central where he goes through each of the amendments to show how they could pan out.

The first amendment is pretty straightforward in that it calls for a second Brexit referendum.

But a second new clause of his would, if passed, give the House of Lords the power to delay, frustrate and ultimately reverse Brexit and is, says the author, carefully disguised.

Referring to the new Clause 49 put forward by Viscount Hailsham, Howarth says that there are two triggers to this:

"In sub-section (1)(a) it provides that the Withdrawal Agreement itself needs to be “subject to the consideration of a motion in the House of Lords”, which in practice would give the Lords a veto. The government could bring forward a motion and their Lordships could remove it." Writes Howarth.

The second trigger, he says, is in sub-action (7) of the same clause, which requires the government to enact the domestic implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement by the 31st January 2019. There is already a tight deadline to get this done by Brexit Day and the Lords could easily filibuster into February says Howarth. The Lords could thus block the Withdrawal Agreement.

Then the Lords would point to sub-section (5) that says:

“Her Majesty’s Government must follow any direction in relation to the negotiations under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union which has been—

(a) approved by a resolution of the House of Commons, and

(b) subject to the consideration of a motion in the House of Lords.”

So if the Lords vetoed the Withdrawal Agreement and the government tried to proceed with a no-deal Brexit, the opposition could amend it but the Lords could also veto it.

This could force an extension to any EU/UK talks with the UK probably having to pay a very heavy price for it!

"That is their Lordships’ plan: - writes Howarth - throw as much mud as possible into the system and hope it fails. Such a strategy would, of course, wreak immeasurable damage to the Government’s negotiating position – why would the EU offer a deal when the Lords can help deliver an even better one for the EU?

"Holding open the option of Remain is a recipe for a bad deal, which in turn leads to an excuse for the Lords to reject the Withdrawal Agreement, leading to Remain – a self-fulfilling legislative prophecy."

If the house of lords votes this through today then we will all know exactly where they stand - that it has effectively become a legislative chamber acting in the best interests of the EU, not the UK, and therefore cannot be trusted and it now has no place in UK politics at all.

And howarth ends by saying:

"The idea of the unelected House dictating that we remain in the EU would be akin to an unelective dictatorship. Have their Lordships thought that one through?"

Sources:

https://brexitcentral.com/viscount-hailshams-amendment-eu-withdrawal-bill-let-peers-block-brexit/

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2017-2019/0079/18079-R-IV.pdf

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6171514/david-davis-labour-brexit-amendment/

https://twitter.com/KateHoeyMP/status/990918540357140481

https://policyexchange.org.uk/dont-listen-to-the-doom-mongers-why-the-uk-including-northern-ireland-can-leave-the-customs-union-avoid-a-hard-border-and-preserve-the-good-friday-agreement/

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