{"id":462,"date":"2019-09-22T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=462"},"modified":"2019-09-22T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:12:18","slug":"we-are-oh-so-far-past-the-stage-where-all-must-abide-by-every-corrupt-legal-nicety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/22\/we-are-oh-so-far-past-the-stage-where-all-must-abide-by-every-corrupt-legal-nicety\/","title":{"rendered":"We are oh so far past the stage where all must abide by every corrupt legal nicety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>When leaders represent the will of the people \u2013 and the laws they are breaking are illegitimate or undemocratic \u2013 violating them is nearly always justified in retrospect. As it would be in this case. The Benn Act became law earlier this month because of the connivance of the unconstitutionally partial Speaker, John Bercow. When he allowed the Opposition to pass legislation in Government time against the will of the PM and his Cabinet, 300 years of constitutional precedent was overturned.<\/p>\n<p>The Benn Act was a very English form of coup d\u2019etat, orchestrated by an anti-Brexit faction in Parliament to subvert the clearly expressed will of the people. It is, therefore, necessary for Boris to break it to restore the proper constitutional relationship between Government, Parliament and people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailonsunday.co.uk\/debate\/article-7489913\/ANDREW-ROBERTS-PM-defy-Benn-Act-leave-EU-without-deal.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When leaders represent the will of the people \u2013 and the laws they are breaking are illegitimate or undemocratic \u2013 violating them is nearly always justified in retrospect. As it would be in this case. The Benn Act became law earlier this month because of the connivance of the unconstitutionally partial Speaker, John Bercow. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,26,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}