The UK Supreme Court Rules

A Good Day for the British

by Terry Field

Yesterday, in a landmark judgment, the British Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the Scottish courts and overturned the English court of Appeal. In landmark cases subject to judgment, Lady Hale, speaking for all eleven justices stated that the Prime Minister had acted to prorogued Parliament with the intention of inhibiting the capacity of Parliament to act and to perform its function. 

Stopping short of stating that Johnston had lied to or misled the Queen, they did go on to say that because his actions were intended to stop proper parliamentary scrutiny, they offended against the relationship between Parliament and the executive, since the former is the senior of the two estates of the realm.

Left, Terry points the way to a better day for Britain!

Parliament was there for not prorogued, the actions of the Prime Minister were void and of no effect. The representatives of the monarch approached Parliament with nothing more than a ‘blank sheet of paper’.

The Speaker has stated that Parliament will reconvene tomorrow at 11.30 Wednesday.

This is a beautiful day for Britain, for the Union, for Parliamentary sovereignty and for a slow return to rational behavior and the evaporation of the psychotic condition that has afflicted so many in Britian when they regard Europe through the bloodshot lenses of the worst rabble rousers.

Readers may here recall I have talked of the power of the fascistic method. Of the way it can, when used by skillful political functionaries possessed of powerful assertive personalities and simple repeated arguments coerce the minds of the disengaged, the previously relaxed and the confused and unaware. You may recall I said it would be applied with more and more force in coming months. We must be aware of its dangers as we see what it does to the relaxed and quite vulnerable institutions that function, routinely, by gentle consensus and group agreement whilst regarding minorities always.

The actions of the referendum political operators has been to try to both remove the representative nature of Parliamentary democracy and replace it with rubber-stamp attendees, whilst continuously working at the extreme margins of the composite constitution Britain has functioned under since the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

This extra-parliamentary activity has in some measure resulted from the perturbations seen in sections of the populations following on the great increase in difficult living conditions for many after the 2008 financial collapse, and the great increase in perceived excess wealth resulting from the economic forces I have discussed at some length before in these blog notes.

All this unhappiness has laid many people open to the blandishments of street rabble rousers.  Open to the suggestions of people selling certain solutions to complex problems, and to those identifying Europe as the causative factor in the trials of the newly and permanently dis-advantaged. The latest data suggests that the concentrations of ‘leave’ voters were NOT found in the centres of poverty. 

They were found in such as Essex (east of London), and in Wales, Cornwall, other English counties. The Welsh people were not of a composite mind to leave, but the vote was ‘swung’ by large numbers of retired, older English voters who has moved to Wales to live where real estate is less expensive, but who were otherwise not financially uncomfortable.

The Welsh, the metropolitan areas, Scotland, Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU. Scotland is quite poor when compared to England. Yet its population voted by a large margin to remain.

Why did this strange split of desires occur?

If it was not the much vaunted ‘poverty factor’ that propelled it, then what was the causative factor or factors?

Of course, in many working-class areas, irrespective of comfort, ease or the lack of it, there is in every country an elevated sense of the value of the ‘local’, of the ‘national’. That in itself does not explain the vote. It explains the tendency to susceptibility to vote leave, but there is another factor. That factor is the fascistic method and demagogic authority with a repeated simple and certain message, that causes those people to vote for something they were previously relatively unconcerned with.

I have lost count of the number of people I have seen on British video media who have stated a strong, indeed burning and yearning desire to ‘leave the EU’ and not one of these people, when challenged could give a cogent, powerful and convincing reason to do so. Why could they not do so?

Because they felt only the need to repeat the strong message the demagogues had rammed into their minds. NONE of them could suggest what they or their country could do which it was prevented from doing whilst being in the EU. I never heard a single cogent reason.

The worst was the repeated message, created by back-office marketing men in the service of the radical leave politicians, that Mrs. May’s deal is the sort of deal a country would agree to ‘if it had been defeated in war’. This was then parroted by people who had no concept of what her agreement contained, had no concept of what ‘defeat in war’ could ever mean. They were in effect the dupes of thought managers. The techniques used on the streets are Goebbels-like in their simple repetitive drumming, laced with conflicted rage at ‘Europe’ and topped with a contempt for Parliament that is ‘frustrating the will of the people’.

The sum of all this is to rip thinking out of the structures upon which parliamentary democracy depends. The street becomes the place where confused people are corralled.

Brexit as a subject does not matter in itself. Any number of other matters could have been propelled to become an obsession. The thing that matters is that the fascistic method has such immense power and can destabilise so comprehensively. It is the choice of the autocrat. It is now employed not just on the street, but within the heart of the executive. That is entirely new.

As to the Brexit matter, well, one might as well ask people what they think the colour pink looks like and to hold up a card with their version painted on it. There would be 67 million different cards. The matter at hand is that a set of deeply self-interested private individuals have said  ‘this colour of pink is the right one! Follow me and ALL of you can have MY LOVELY PINK COLOUR!!!.

Statistics being what they are, and the bell curve being normally distributed, the effect of the demagogue is to skew the curve in automatic favour of the offered, ’official’ pink colour. The addition of the worst and continuous excesses of ‘social media’ accentuates the need to form ‘tribes’ and leave the common political space.

Thus, in a ‘western’ world that is quickly retreating from the ordered discipline that wise government backed by and scrutinized by a fully functioning representative parliament, the Supreme Court gave Britain two wonderful gifts today.

One with a direct effect; and one with an indirect effect we should act upon if we are wise and love our lives as our ancestors have lived them. The first gift was that Parliament will sit today and the executive has been again been confirmed as being the junior partner of the Parliament Assembled. That was argued by Lord Pannick QC for the appellant and was confirmed in the judgment. A most important re-affirmation of the supremacy of Parliament Assembled.

The second gift is to calm our fever, to remove us from the sweaty clutches of the political violence of the demagogue street-vendors. This gift can make decent people look at their support for this shameful lying destructive weak little man Johnston who acts to look like and behaves like an anti-democratic South-American-style autocrat in thrall to the extra-parliamentary  political grouping.  That is in effect removing the governing party entirely from both parliament and people, in order to try to recover the voting block they fear Nigel Farage’s party holds in his grasp.

The Supreme Court can and should, in its judgment, make honest British people abandon a government whose Prime Minister has acted in a way not seen before and which must never be seen again. Reflection as to what is decent, and to what is indecent is a requirement of the electorate if it is to benefit from the continuation of the vigour and authority of its Parliament. The Supreme Court has offered us all a way back to where we were. It is up to all of us to grasp it. We are not a rich and powerful country; we are beset by problems and dangers. Yet we can be a great and enduring democratic society. All we need to do it to want that, and act upon our best instincts. Our democracy is an inheritance beyond price. It eclipses all else. We need to rediscover the awe our ancestors felt for it.

Of course, today is about the constitution, but the battering ram applied was the demagogue and the Brexit fantasy.

The bubble of mania and psychosis against the European Union will NOT be lanced, however, if the street offers liars a chance to lie unchallenged to the gullible in a second referendum should it be offered.

Since we now live with the politics of the street, as a result of the actions of the weak Prime Minster Cameron who was rightly described by President Obama as being ‘a lightweight’, then there needs to be introduced into law serious penalties for being shown to lie to the people in order to procure their vote. Alternatively, the referendum vote should take place with no permitted comment from the time the vote is announced outside of Parliament or by Members of Parliament during the canvassing period. Accountability should be framed in terms of parliament and it should exclude all others. That way, the second referendum could only be the servant of and the advisory statement directed to Parliament, where authority must lie.

Parliament must reassert its authority. The actions of the street should be crushed where it subverts political conversation on the matter at hand. Failure to do this is a liars’ indeed a fraudsters’ charter.

It is hard to do. But it must be done.

Finally, it is wonderful to see that, given Britian functions via its unwritten constitution, which amongst other things regards common law, precedent, statutory authority and established procedure as key elements in cementing proper behavior, which in turn facilitates the effective functioning of the branches of government, the Supreme Court has acted with unprecedented vigour and unanimity, from eleven Justices, in asserting with certainly and clarity that the structures that protect Parliament, and which in turn guarantee the people a full response from power to their representatives are to be jealously guarded and protected.

All in all, a good day to be British.