BREXIT to face legal challenge.

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Brexit: Legal steps seek to ensure Commons vote on Article 50

A law firm is taking action to ensure the formal process for the UK leaving the EU is not started without an act of Parliament.

Mishcon de Reya, lawyers acting for a group of business people and academics, said it would be unlawful for a prime minister to trigger Article 50 without a full debate and vote in Parliament.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36700350

This raises some interesting possibilities with regard to the UK's democratic processes.

Do the lawmakers vote according to the will of those who elected them or according to their own beliefs ? The numbers of voters and how they voted in each area are now a matter of record.


This comes just as the release of the Chilcott report into the Iraq war is about to drive an eighteen-wheeler through the Brits. respect for parliamentary processes. The parliament is damned if the report is honest and damned if it offers a whitewash.

 

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Brexit leaders 'leaving the boat' - EU Commission boss Juncker


EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has accused Brexit campaigners Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage of quitting when things got difficult.

"The Brexit heroes of yesterday are now the sad Brexit heroes of today," he told the European Parliament.

There was anger among MEPs over the UK's 23 June vote to leave the EU.

Mr Juncker spoke of Leave camp "retro nationalists". "Patriots don't resign when things get difficult, they stay," he told MEPs in Strasbourg.

He also said he did not understand why those in the Brexit camp in the UK would want to wait before beginning the formal withdrawal process.

"Instead of developing the plan, they are leaving the boat," he said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36712550

Anybody seen Canute this morning ?