Brexit Undermines the Rule of Law in the UK
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2022
- In this latest Federal Trust video, Brendan Donnelly discusses the British government's attempt to rewrite the Northern Ireland Protocol; its attempt to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda; and the resignation of the government's ethics adviser Lord Geidt.
He argues that all three episodes show a government indifferent to the rule of law and due process.
He believes that Brexit has introduced a moral vacuum into the heart of British politics, a vacuum that can only be reversed by the reversal of Brexit.
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Brendan Donnelly is the director of the Federal Trust and former Conservative MEP.
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100% agreement by this UK citizen, who believes that only overthrow of the state will now unhorse Johnson, who has the makings and mindset of a tyrant.
Thank you!
Your warning of the dire prospect ahead is concisely and succinctly expressed. What makes it more dire is the inability of the English opposition to honestly articulate it themselves to the electorate. Why? Because of their own enormous culpability in allowing brexit and all its poison to pass and embed.
You do not believe in democracy then. Over 50% of those that voted chose to leave the EU. Any government would have to carry out that mandate. No ifs, no buts, no second referendum because the outcome does not suit. We have to try to make UK a decent place to live
@@Jonnythebaker : if you believe the full essence of UK democracy was captured in total by one marginal vote on one badly defined issue on one day in June 2016 you have a very simplistic & hidebound view of what it means.
The political class's initial response to it and virtually everything it has done on the issue since has made the UK's actual democratic processes and principles look very sick and dysfunctional.
And so it will go on, poisoned by brexit.
@@indricotherium4802 I am afraid you are wrong just because you do not like or cannot accept the outcome of a referendum and suggesting that this was not a democratic decision because of a small difference in the resulting votes is ludicrous. So get over it and accept the democratic decision made in 2016. And politically work towards changing the decision if you believe in rejoining the EU. But I am not certain there is a political party in Westminster that wants to rejoin the EU except the Libdems.
@@Jonnythebaker : you should try mitigating your parental-authoritarian tone of debate and actually think a little harder about the proposition that was put to you.
Is it democratic or undemocratic to reconsider and review a bad decision on a poorly informed issue? It is actually a sign of a mature democracy that it recognise its mistakes and correct them. Your position is quite an immature one, completely hidebound, as if to an article of strict faith.
Not only does your argument not have any pragmatic virtue, it doesn't work in principle either. In your own belief system, the people who became the Leaver movement should have long got over the result of the 1975 Referendum to join and form valuable trading, cultural and socio-political links with our nearest geographical neighbours. it made very good sense!
@@indricotherium4802 yes it would have in 1970s before the development of aircraft and super sized ships. You sir are living in the past. Who is to decide if the 2016 referendum result was a mistake..the only democratic way of doing it is to politically change it and currently in Westminster there is only a handfilul of MPs who would like to reverse the decision. But it would need a government to decide to have another referendum. That's even if the UK would meet the entry requirements which is doubtful. So like I say moan all you like moaning will not change a thing, the only government law that I can recall being changed is the poll tax under M Thatcher. Just to say about the leave vote the common market in 1975 became something very very different in 2016. It moved from being a food security and trading project to a political protectionist authoritarian regime with 100.000s of rules and laws. Run by inefficient French farmers and wine growers that completely changed the UK countryside for the worse. How many dead insects on your windscreen answer none. Fertiliser and isectisides and herbicides killed off life in our rivers. Hedges grubbed up bird and butterfly life decimated, numbers crashed. Land owners not farmers get filthy rich on EU subsidies. Massive forest areas planted with conifers at the expense of UK hardwood species. That is beginning to be reversed by the current UK farming policies. And our fisheries will become sustainable again when the EU boats are finally booted out of UK territorial waters in 10 years time. We still need to control our sewage better. We may have to double the water charges to improve the infrastructure. Leaving the EU a bad decision I do not think so unless the EU changes its direction. And begins to look after the environment.
It's undermining pretty well everything. Back to the awful 1970s and economic doldrums. And Bunter's dodging the NRG conference shows that he doesn't understand how focusing on the Northern economy would improve so many national problems.
Well said Sir. Saor Alba.
Totally agree. 👍
Brillant video many thanks
Little Britain has chosen a very lonely scary Path that can only lead down to a cul-de-sac.
Mick Lynch for PM......
Certainly brexit is not Ukexit
Boris is the football hooligan
of the British politics.
He pretends to support the country (club) but harms( the country/club) as much as possible.
The UK has been considering ending the interference of the ECHR for many, many years. Even before our wonderful verdict to end EU interference in the UK.
Since British lawyers drafted the ECHR in the post war 1940's , and since the ECHR judgment is not binding on the UK, how could Britain possibly be subject to interference from it, other than by weight of embarrassment?
Oneiromancer, don't let facts trouble you!
@@gertrudlehmann4869
If I want to listen to piffle all I have to do is pay attention to anti brexiters. They are full of 💩.
@@genghisthegreat2034 it's only just happened.
The UK has been considering ending Council of Europe membership for a long time. Even before we had the EU referendum.
I hope the UK government jettisons it.
It's outdated. Made for another time and situation.
@@Lucid.dreamer ....you know the Council of Europe is not the European Convention of Human Rights, but God almighty, you hide it awful well.
you guys are doing great work, but you need to get out of the echo chamber, which means it is not helping to only talk to a small group of people who support your views, you need to get more viewers and get the message out to more people, do more live streams with all the other remain supporting you tubers, at least once a week, to give advice and explanation on what is happening in politics
Yet more crap