Judge hints at legal hitch that could seriously delay Brexit
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With
a curious piece of “double talk”, Iain Duncan-Smith argues that
Parliament rather than judges should decide in respect of triggering
Article 50, but goes on to say that Government must use its
“executive powers”, to commence the process. Not for the first
time in his checkered political career, IDS is confused and seeks to
bully his views onto others as he did during his infamous period as
Work and Pensions Secretary at the DWP. His confusion arises either
by accident or more probably design, in his belief that “government”
and “parliament” are synonymous terms used to describe the
mechanism of administering the country. They are not. For the benefit
of Iain Duncan-Smith, and any others who may be under such a
delusion, Parliament is the House of Lords and the House of Commons
combined. Government on the other hand, is and has historically
(certainly since the days of the Blair administration), been a small
cabal of senior ministers or advisers, led by the Prime Minister of
the day, who use their “executive powers” to bypass Parliament to
enact pieces of legislation which they believe will be contentious or
difficult to pass, should parliament be allowed to debate the matter.
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| Three of the "Cabal" |
On
the question of the forthcoming Supreme Court hearing on the
governments appeal against the original High Court judgement Duncan
Smith argues that, “It
is not their job to tell parliament … how they should go about that
business, that’s for parliament to decide.”
He then goes on to fall over his own tongue by contradicting himself
with the comment that, “What
the judges will decide on at the supreme court is whether or not the
government can use its executive powers to trigger article 50”.
Perhaps
I may remind Duncan-Smith that this country endured
civil war to establish the supremacy of Parliament over the Monarchy.
To
replace the tyranny of the “Divine Right of Kings”, with the
equally objectionable “government executive powers” undermines
the foundations of Parliamentary Democracy in this country.
The
closed, almost secret cabal of “government” must never be allowed
to use
“executive powers”, to circumvent or undermine the supremacy of
Parliament.
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