Britain's Queen Elizabeth approves law seeking to block Oct. 31 no-deal Brexit

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends a special exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria which marks this year's Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace in London, Britain, July 17, 2019. Victoria Jones/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Monday gave final approval to a piece of legislation which seeks to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson from taking the country out of the European Union without an exit deal on Oct. 31.

 

The step, known as Royal Assent, is effectively a rubber-stamp from the monarch for the law which passed through parliament last week despite opposition from the government. The Royal Assent was announced in parliament's upper chamber, the House of Lords.

 

(Reporting by William James, Editing by Kylie MacLellan)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-09-10

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Boris had tea with her yesterday, she has  been told what to say, part of his grand plane to stuff the ones that don't understand democracy and honour a vote

1 hour ago, bartender100 said:

Boris had tea with her yesterday, she has  been told what to say, part of his grand plane to stuff the ones that don't understand democracy and honour a vote

So you're suggesting that the PM can trump the queens wishes and that the queen doesn't understand democracy and has no honor? and i say, you should more respect and check your facts sir...

An unelected head of state blocks Brexit. What irony. 

I wonder what ditch he has selected for himself. ???? The Thrump of the UK.

It seems that many don't understand the protocol for passing laws in the UK.  All laws require royal assent.  Technically, the Queen can refuse to approve a law.  However, it's long standing protocol for the Queen to follow the advice of her government.  It's not unique to the UK.  Even laws in Australia require royal assent although it is given by the governor general on the Queen's behalf.

 

56 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

An unelected head of state blocks Brexit. What irony. 

Over an unelected Prime Minister. What irony.

1 hour ago, robblok said:

I wonder what ditch he has selected for himself. ???? The Thrump of the UK.

Hopefully a deep one.

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

So you're suggesting that the PM can trump the queens wishes and that the queen doesn't understand democracy and has no honor? and i say, you should more respect and check your facts sir...

The queen is a pretty nice girl but she hasn't got a lot to say

10 minutes ago, Mansell said:

Over an unelected Prime Minister. What irony.

It doesn't have to be that way, Boris knows the country cannot be run whilst parliament is in such disarray, but cowardly labour and the rest are just to scared to do the right thing and have an election, all they are doing is prolonging the agony with their own sense of survival. Drain the swamp that is parliament.

3 hours ago, bartender100 said:

Boris had tea with her yesterday, she has  been told what to say, part of his grand plane to stuff the ones that don't understand democracy and honour a vote

No, he was in Dublin. And if you call Boris backroom plotting "democratic", look up the word. 

In case you are not aware, the referendum outcome isn't a binding result. Only pea brains can't see the consequences of his plans. Why do you think Rees-Mogg moved his investment company to the EU? To make money from Brexit and to do business post Brexit. 

10 minutes ago, vogie said:

It doesn't have to be that way, Boris knows the country cannot be run whilst parliament is in such disarray, but cowardly labour and the rest are just to scared to do the right thing and have an election, all they are doing is prolonging the agony with their own sense of survival. Drain the swamp that is parliament.

There was an election. Maybe honor that election before asking for a new one. Or didn’t it go your way and you want people to vote until you like the result? 

19 minutes ago, Letseng said:

Hopefully a deep one.

 Boris  has  been on earners from JCB. 

Maybe they can help with a deep ditch..

 

 

3 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

There was an election. Maybe honor that election before asking for a new one. Or didn’t it go your way and you want people to vote until you like the result? 

That phrase seems to ring a bell. 

17 minutes ago, nauseus said:

That phrase seems to ring a bell. 

Brilliant! Do you think he didn't word it that way on purpose? I  think it was intended as ironic humour.

18 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:

Brilliant! Do you think he didn't word it that way on purpose? I  think it was intended as ironic humour.

Brilliant.

4 hours ago, bartender100 said:

Boris had tea with her yesterday, she has  been told what to say, part of his grand plane to stuff the ones that don't understand democracy and honour a vote

Brexiteers have been suggesting that Her Majesty is on their side, I do not know but she will will be very aware how split the country is.

 

She did refuse to to see Corbyn and Swinson who wished to ask her not to prorogue Parliament, but I suspect Boris is getting a very frosty reception, it was said that Carrie has been snubbed by the Queen because she is an adulteress, but their again the now wife of the Queens eldest son is an adulteress too.

 

I presume in time the Queen will "let it be known" what her views were using the usual unofficial channels.

1 hour ago, Mansell said:

Over an unelected Prime Minister. What irony.

Like any monarch the world over, royalty is not elected.

As far as Boris Johnson goes.  British prime ministers are elected as leader of the party by party members not the public.  Therefore you can say that all British prime ministers are unelected.

Edited September 10, 20196 yr by HHTel
correction

4 hours ago, bartender100 said:

Boris had tea with her yesterday, she has  been told what to say, part of his grand plane to stuff the ones that don't understand democracy and honour a vote

 

21 leading law professors and law academics had written an open letter warning of the constitutional crisis that would be created should Boris, as PM, advise HMQ to withhold her rubber stamp approval.

 

(Source: UK Constitutional Law Association).

 

That demonstrates their opinion of a PM who seems to think he's above the law. Their action probably reigned him in. He's also been warned by a former judge of the consequences of deliberately ignoring and flaunting the law. Never before as there been such a worry about a PM.

5 minutes ago, HHTel said:

1 hour ago, Mansell said:

Over an unelected Prime Minister. What irony.

Like any monarch the world over, royalty is not elected.

As far as Boris Johnson goes.  British prime ministers are elected as leader of the party by party members not the public.  Therefore you can say that all British prime ministers are unelected.

In one way or another Prim Ministers are elected, but they are not by a general election, in actual fact in a general election the party with the most MP's leader may have lost their seat.

 

Most parties the leader is appointed by the members, IMHO this should be left to the MP's, in actual fact as I see it any MP can be PM if they have the support of enough MP's as happened in 1940 when Chamberlain lost a vote of confidence and Churchill was appointed to replace him.

1 hour ago, vogie said:

It doesn't have to be that way, Boris knows the country cannot be run whilst parliament is in such disarray, but cowardly labour and the rest are just to scared to do the right thing and have an election, all they are doing is prolonging the agony with their own sense of survival. Drain the swamp that is parliament.

 

Boris, or rather Cummings, are doing all they can to engineer a no-deal Brexit on 31/10.

 

No one trusts the serial liar Boris. As PM, he decides when that election would be if parliament had approved an early one. The suspicion was he'd deliberately move the election till after 31/10 after saying it would be before and without a no-deal prevention law the UK would leave by default on 31/10 without a deal.

 

I agree drain the swamp, and that includes liars like Boris, Gove, the sinister R-Mogg and their cronies just as much as terrorist loving commie Corbyn and his Momentum subversives. 

1 hour ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

There was an election. Maybe honor that election before asking for a new one. Or didn’t it go your way and you want people to vote until you like the result? 

 

Yes, there was an election in which May lost her majority. The results of that election are being respected. Boris, who has lost more MP's and therefore in a worse position than May wants to call an early election. Parliament doesn't. 

 

What's your point?

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

The queen is a pretty nice girl but she hasn't got a lot to say

I'd like to see her go off script on 14 Oct by firing the dwarf and telling them to get on with it.

'Stranger Fings' an' all that...

 

10 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

What's your point?

Im mocking Brexiteers who constantly keep telling us there can’t be another vote. 

2 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

 

Im mocking Brexiteers who constantly keep telling us there can’t be another vote. 

Ha ha. Now cite one example of that!

This gracious woman has seen off a lot of UK Prime Ministers and US Presidents. This video might remind you of those Presidents she has passed by.

5 minutes ago, nauseus said:

Ha ha. Now cite one example of that!

 

11 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

 

& the example?

2 hours ago, vogie said:

It doesn't have to be that way, Boris knows the country cannot be run whilst parliament is in such disarray, but cowardly labour and the rest are just to scared to do the right thing and have an election, all they are doing is prolonging the agony with their own sense of survival. Drain the swamp that is parliament.

Funny, someone else wanted to drain the swamp across the Atlantic and now he is the swamp

1 hour ago, Basil B said:

In one way or another Prim Ministers are elected, but they are not by a general election, in actual fact in a general election the party with the most MP's leader may have lost their seat.

 

Most parties the leader is appointed by the members, IMHO this should be left to the MP's, in actual fact as I see it any MP can be PM if they have the support of enough MP's as happened in 1940 when Chamberlain lost a vote of confidence and Churchill was appointed to replace him.

Correct.  You agree with me.