Brexit: Parliament is playing a very dangerous game, an expensive game

Brexit: Parliament is playing a very dangerous game, an expensive game

When Anna Soubry rose in the House of Commons the game was self-evident. Why not a General Election? For the same reasons that the Labour Party doesn't want a General Election. Plagued by internal conflicts and divisions, scandals, it remains to be seen if the Labour Party is not actually the big loser in the skirmishes linked to Brexit.

Jeremy Corbyn knows that this could well be the end of his political career. After all that is happening in the Labour Party, losing a General Election means goodbye to the Leadership of the Labour Party and a reshuffle that will be the end of the road for John McDonnell and others that will be blamed for the context in which many Labour MPs left to become Independents and even joined the Liberal Democrats. For some Labour MPs, all the threats will mean very little either because their majorities look unassailable or simply because after decades in politics they are heading for retirement. For other Labour MPs, the risk of their careers being ended by a General Election is very real and therefore they will drag their feet for as long as it is possible to do so. Other Labour MPs see the defeat of the Labour Party and in particular of Jeremy Corbyn as the best opportunity they have to rebuild the Labour Party. Losing an election would be for them a price worth paying 

For the Liberal Democrats, it is the kind of opportunity that they have been looking for for a vary long time. They jumped at the chance of being in government and this is why they were eager to join the Conservative Party in a coalition under the Leadership of David Cameron. In fact, some Labour MPs asked the Liberal Democrats today if they were willing to join the Conservatives in a coalition if the outcome of a General Election is once again a hung Parliament. There is the suspicion that this is exactly what the Leadership of the Liberal Democrats is looking for as several of them - including its present Leader - were in government with the Conservatives. The main difficulty is that the present Liberal Democratic Party was joined by Labour MPs and Conservative MPs and they would be in a very awkward situation.

For those like Chuka Umunna, former Labour MP for Streatham, to leave the Labour Party was a jump into the unknown. Then came the option of joining another political grouping with former Labour MPs and former Conservative MPs called Change UK. But after a dramatic failure in the European Parliament Elections, Chuka Umunna instinctively knew that the only alternative was to join the Liberal Democrats to stand a chance to try to save his political career. In a General Election, he wouldn't stand in Streatham and therefore he would be standing in the City. He secured his position as Liberal Democrat Speaker on Economic Affairs but, would he be willing to be part of a coalition with the Conservatives? For Conservatives who left the Conservative Party and joined the Liberal Democratic Party to see themselves as part of a coalition with the Conservatives would be a paradox and a very uncomfortable position to be in.

But before we can assume that Labour MPs and Conservative MPs who joined the Liberal Democrats would be re-elected but this time as Liberal Democrat MPs, we need to look at what is happening right now. The European Union suggested that they would agree to an extension - that they called a flexible extension - to allow the UK to finalize all legislative processses including the approval of the Withdrawal Agreement agreed with Prime Minister Boris Johnson but the agreement for a flexible extension comes with conditions attached and they are waiting for the House of Commons to make a decision that the House of Commons is not willing to make. The House of Commons hasn't approved the Deal, the House of Commons doesn't want a second Referendum and the House of Commons doesn't want a General Election. What would then be the point of granting an extension - or even a flexible extension? 

Will the EU deny the United Kingdom an extension at the last minute because the House of Commons cannot agree the way forward? It has been reported that tomorrow, a new motion will be put forward that would make possible to have a General Election despite the Fixed Term Parliament Act that requires a two-third majority of all 650 seats of the House of Commons including the seats that have not been occupied by Sinn Fein/IRA. The Speaker and other officials despite being MPs don't vote. For this reason, in order to have the required number of votes - according to the Fixed Term Parliament Act - a vast number of Labour MPs would have to support the motion. Tomorrow, would be decision time in the House of Commons. Would this be the end of the stalemate?

 

Attacks against political parties and political party members have been blessed by the Political Establishment

Attacks against political parties and political party members have been blessed by the Political Establishment

Owen Jones (The Guardian) - Anna Soubry MP

Both Owen Jones and Anna Soubry MP promoted and celebrated attacks against political parties and political party members.

Owen Jones actively supports thugs that engage in political violence and his writings are not conducive to peaceful political coexistence but since the National Union of Journalist has an active agenda that leads to persecution discrimination, harassment and violence this doesn't come as a surprise. 

It remains to be seen if the aforementioned would remember what happened in 1930s Germany and perhaps learnt a few lessons from it because the kind of realities that they promote are certainly leading Britain to become 1930s Germany, especially when nowadays political violence in Germany is on the rise and Britain will soon become a reflection of it. They both lamented the death of Jo Cox MP but they don't seem to understand that their behaviour is putting people in danger.

If we don't respect each other and if we don't care for each other, regardless of our political differences, Britain will be the new Weimar Republic.  

Simon Darby offers his account of an event during which Owen Jones was filmed celebrating political violence.

"Since the College Green assault on the BNP’s newly elected MEPs in 2009 has come in to focus, I’ll share a few recollections of the event. I do so for the purpose of making people aware of the increasingly desperate manoeuvres by the power structure in this country, approaching March 29th, to officially reclassify some 17.4 million people as far-right extremists.

Tuesday 9th June 2009 just a couple of days after the BNP’s incredible breakthrough in the European elections and it was my job to sort out a press conference. Having myself obtained 122,000 votes (8.6%) across the West Midlands I was somewhat disappointed not to be on the podium, but the show had to go on.

It was my idea to host the event at College Green, right outside Parliament, since whilst working at the GLA I had done a number of interviews from that same location. I found it to be secure, most of the time crawling with police and easily accessible to the world’s press. More than this though, with Parliament in the background any images would tend to visually turbocharge our breakthrough and help cement the achievement in the public’s mind.

Both Nick and Andrew were happy with the idea, but BNP security were concerned about the complexities of operating in London. Far from “BNP Thugs” our security team was a highly disciplined, politically savvy synthesis of ex-military, martial arts experts and doormen from some of the roughest cities and towns across the UK.

Those initial concerns were alleviated by the use of special forces grade communications equipment allowing extraction vehicles to be in close orbit to the event at all times away from the prying eyes and ears of the boys in blue. That proved to be a very wise move with this particular choice of winners enclosure.

All progressed smoothly enough at first, I was pleased with the size of the snarling press pack I had conjured up knowing we would not be wasting our time. Then all of a sudden I heard chants and out of the corner of my eye I saw a hundred strong herd of far-left zombies was shuffling towards us.

I don’t need to say what happened next as the attack has been seen by most. There are however photos of myself at the event with a look of shock on my face almost as if I’m smiling. How on earth, in one of the tightest security zones in the country, do a mob of one hundred assailants at first assemble, then walk unhindered, right outside Westminster, to deliver a sustained uninterrupted ten minute assault on democratically elected MPs?

It goes without saying that the far left and the media, if there is a difference, co-operate to facilitate violent intimidation. BBC and Channel 4 get the money shot and the left alienate support amongst the middle classes and delegitimise our message. However, in the College Green case the only conclusion you could draw was that certain elements within the police were playing the game too. It was a pattern repeated often over the next few years.

As for the attack itself I remember the bizarre giant rugby scrum that ensued, moving with a momentum and shape akin to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter and the Andromeda Galaxy. Thanks to security nobody was hurt, although I did feel sorry for young Jay from Essex. Attached closely to Nick he continued to take blows whilst protecting him, resisting the obvious urge to retaliate which he was capable of doing most effectively.

As is nearly always the case with left wing violence against nationalists, nobody gets charged. My local police took it all very seriously, but the Met conveniently mislaid the file. In fact the only person they pursued with interest was one of our security team who extracted us with his expert defensive driving. Maybe they wanted to recruit him.

What “robust action” the police will take against people ”harassing” the likes of Anna Soubry and Owen Jones is unknown. However I can tell you for sure that ANTIFA and other violent leftist groups will not be classified as domestic terrorists. Their members will not be charged with belonging to an illegal organisation. Their organisers, journalists and serving police officers will not be arrested for conspiracy to incite violent disorder. Union backers will not have their funds seized under anti-terrorist legislation and The Electoral Commission will not be disbanded for allowing violence and intimidation to undermine our democratic system for decades. If they were merely football hooligans, well that would be a very different matter."