Gazette and Herald 24th October 2019
On Tuesday last week we should have had a general election. However, last month Labour and Lib-Dem MPs twice voted against it - just in case the way people voted allowed the UK to leave the EU without a withdrawal deal. The Conservative manifesto having promised that we would leave with or without a deal.
At the same time Labour, Lib-Dem and SNP MPs passed the Benn Act making it illegal for the UK to leave the EU unless we accept whatever terms the EU offer us. Yet on Saturday they even refused to vote for that deal. Instead they legally required the Prime Minister to ask the EU to let us remain EU members until at least next year.
If you make a ‘no deal brexit’ illegal, then block the only deal the EU will offer us – the only logical conclusion is that they wish to block Brexit. This is despite the UK population having voted simply to ‘leave the European Union’ by a majority of more than one a quarter million in the largest democratic vote in UK history.
Across the world people look up to England as the birthplace of parliamentary democracy, which gradually developed after our first parliament was called more than 750 years ago. Over the last two months Labour and Lib-Dem MPs have repeatedly sought to frustrate the clearly expressed will of the British people that we leave the EU - and in order to hold on to their power – they have also twice blocked a general election.
The British people must be allowed to have a general election.
Dr Martin Parsons
Devizes
At the same time Labour, Lib-Dem and SNP MPs passed the Benn Act making it illegal for the UK to leave the EU unless we accept whatever terms the EU offer us. Yet on Saturday they even refused to vote for that deal. Instead they legally required the Prime Minister to ask the EU to let us remain EU members until at least next year.
If you make a ‘no deal brexit’ illegal, then block the only deal the EU will offer us – the only logical conclusion is that they wish to block Brexit. This is despite the UK population having voted simply to ‘leave the European Union’ by a majority of more than one a quarter million in the largest democratic vote in UK history.
Across the world people look up to England as the birthplace of parliamentary democracy, which gradually developed after our first parliament was called more than 750 years ago. Over the last two months Labour and Lib-Dem MPs have repeatedly sought to frustrate the clearly expressed will of the British people that we leave the EU - and in order to hold on to their power – they have also twice blocked a general election.
The British people must be allowed to have a general election.
Dr Martin Parsons
Devizes
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