Jeremy Corbyn just signalled that Labour won't try and block Brexit

BIA ^ | 4th November 2016 | Shehab Khan

[naturalman1975]

Jeremy Corbyn indicated that the Labour Party will not try and block Britain’s departure from the European Union after the pivotal High Court ruling in London on Thursday said that Prime Minister Theresa May has to get approval from parliament to trigger Article 50.

“Labour respects the decision of the British people to leave the European Union,” the Labour Party leader said in a statement.

“But there must be transparency and accountability to parliament on the terms of Brexit.”

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Corbyn is almost certainly a closet Brexiter. Its common knowledge that his Parliamentary career has been one of trying to thwart the EU and criticise it for years. He came out in a notably lacklustre way for ‘remain’ only because he knew the generally fanatically pro-EU Labour party would implode even further if he followed his actual anti-EU beliefs. So much for Corbyn being a man of fearless principle and integrity.

[Winniesboy]

The people did indeed vote. What the people did not do, however, is authorise the Government to implement that vote in whatever manner it chooses without any further reference back to the sovereign Parliament. And since the core purpos of Brexit is to reassert the sovereignty of the British Parliament without subjection to a foreign body, the judgment of the court is reinforcing the people’s will, not contradicting it. Naturalman has explained this lucidly on earlier posts in this thread.

[az_gila]

I doubt the Democrats would under similar circumstances.

You know damn well that they wouldn't...not in a million years.

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I think in the UK the unions have more sway than the lawyers...:^)

Brexit will be good for the actual UK workers.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the mention.

Not knowing precisely how the British system works, I’ll concede on the point.

I do not like to see judges jumping into political issues.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

That was a very good description of the constitutional issues. At one time, it would also have applied to Canada, where we inherited a Westminster system — until we got the Trudeau the Elder’s “Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

Although the Charter contains a nod towards Parliamentary supremacy (in the so-called “Notwithstanding clause”, which says that a Parliament can override the Supreme Court, if need be) — in practice the Notwithstanding clause is largely moot, and the SCOC is acting more and more like the activist SCOTUS.