Brexit Blocked

Top UK judges - the old guys who wear shag carpets on their heads - have blocked Brexit.

From the Daily Mail:

The Lord Chief Justice, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd, alongside Sir Terence Etherton and Lord Justice Sales, ruled that the Prime Minister does not have power to trigger Article 50 to start the two-year Brexit process.

The unelected trio were today accused of 'striking down the will of the people to set in train leaving the EU'.

Ukip politicians branded the ruling 'judicial activism' and called for a system which would allow judges to be sacked.

At least one of the three judges, the self-styled "Lord" Thomas, has a vested interest in seeing that the UK remain in the EU. He "was a founding member of the European Law Institute, which says it works towards the 'enhancement of European legal integration'."

From the BBC:

Brexit Secretary David Davis said he presumed the court ruling meant an act of Parliament would be required to trigger Article 50 - so would be subject to approval by both MPs and peers.

But the government was going to contest that view in an appeal, and said the referendum was held only following "a six-to-one vote in the Commons to give the decision to the British people".

"The people are the ones Parliament represents - 17.4m of them, the biggest mandate in history, voted for us to leave the European Union. We are going to deliver on that mandate in the best way possible for the British national interest," he told the BBC.

The plan of the court is to have the Brexit issue languish in the courts and in parliament over months, maybe years, until they can find a way to overturn it completely. The remain MPs want to water down the terms until the people are left with Brexit in name only. The UK will remain in the EU, remain in the common market, but, like Tibet, will be declared "autonomous" by the authoritarian dictatorship in Brussels who wield all the real power.

It's almost 5 November, and if we are to remember, and the government is to respect the will of the people, you're going to have to put the MPs feet to the fire.