Sky News: Newspaper preview 6th December 2016.
Carole
Malone, journalist and writer was
again
one of the occupants of the Sky News sofa last night for their
nightly newspaper preview. During the
course of her first contribution at 10:30, Malone managed to clearly
demonstrate that not only is she a rude and patronising "journalist",
but also that she has a complete ignorance of the topic that she
spent over twenty minutes hysterically trying to talk over Ian Dunt,
the other occupant on the sofa, with her nonsense rantings that the
Supreme Court judges hearing the governments appeal against a High
Court ruling were seeking to overturn and reverse the Brexit decision
arising from the June referendum.
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| Carole Malone |
It
is one thing to argue passionately about a subject where you clearly
have a knowledge of the detail, but quite another to be hysterically
shouting about a subject upon which your knowledge is limited or even
non existent. Ian Dunt who wrote the best seller, "Brexit:
What the Hell Happens Now?: Everything You Need to Know About
Britain's Divorce from Europe 2016"
was clearly stunned as Malone completely ignored his attempts to
explain to her the reality of the situation, as she droned on about
"these judges trying to overturn Brexit and defy the decision of
the referendum".
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| Ian Dunt |
She
clearly could not or perhaps would not, wrap her mind around the
paramount question as to whether government, or more accurately the
"Executive" in
the form of Prime Minister with
a
very few other
ministers,
has the power, through "Government Prerogative" to
implement policy or overturn treaties or other legislation without
Parliament (The Lords and Commons combined) approval.
I
have written in the past that this
is not a question of "Brexit" or "Remain". It is
not even a question about the judiciary "interfering" with
the democratic process of this country. The only question, is that of
the
pre-eminence of Parliament and its members, and whether Parliament
(Lords and Commons combined) can be circumvented and undermined by a
small clique of MP's using the antiquated and now corrupted
concession, of "Prerogative" to push through legislation
which they know will be problematic to enact should the matter be
debated in Parliament
or to change, amend or completely repeal
legislation previously passed by Parliament, in this case the
European
Communities Act 1972 (UK).
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| Anna Botting |
Even
Anna Botting seemed bewildered
by Malone's preoccupation with the Supreme Court judges,
who are
in her opinion, "seeking to overturn Brexit". In fact,
Malone was not even aware of
the
constitutional position that
a
referendum result
in the United Kingdom is not legally binding, even though it would be
a brave politician who ignored the result.
It
is difficult to understand why Sky News persistently invite these
second rate newspaper previewers like Carole Malone, Christina
Patterson, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Sayed Mathews and a few others, back
on to the programme to occupy the sofa every night. One thing is
clear however. What ever these people are being paid as a fee, it is
far too much.
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