Posted on 05/02/2018 7:44:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The great 19th century political writer Walter Bagehot once said that ‘the best cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it’. His words could be applied to the Upper House today, where irresponsible partisanship over Brexit risks the creation of a constitutional crisis.
As the confrontation with the Government deepens, all respect for public opinion has been abandoned by a large number of peers in their undemocratic quest to overturn the result of the EU Referendum.
So far the House of Lords has inflicted nine defeats on Theresa May’s Brexit legislation, and several more are likely to follow in the coming days.
Such a sustained challenge by the peerage to an elected administration trying to implement the centrepiece of its programme is unprecedented in modern times.
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In England they are called the Remainer's in the US they are called the Resister's.
Embedded Bureaucrats and unelected public officials in both nations are stifling the results of the electoral process.
And all this division is making the real battle to preserve freedom much more difficult.
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LORD LAMONT: I’ve always backed the House of Lords. But after this Brexit power grab, my colleagues are forcing me to reconsider
And this is what will happen in the US should democrats take control of either chamber or both chambers of Congress.
Can we now dub them with that loathsome term "conservative" because they want things to stay the same just like those "conservative" communists in the Kremlin after Glasnost and Perestroika?
No.
There is nothing conservative about either the Remainer’s or the Resister’s.
Agree.
Of course! You are their sheep. Sheep should eat their hay and lay down quietly for fleecing. They feed you, after all. It’s only occasionally that they require lamb chops.
No relation, I assume, to Marc Lamont Hill, the glib black professor/activist who was constantly on the Bill O’Reilly program.
Abolish this outdated undemocratic collection of dinosaurs.
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