In defence of ‘no deal’

Imagine the industrial levels of brass neck it must require for EU-supporting MPs to present themselves as defenders of parliamentary sovereignty.

That’s what they’re doing today, on ‘Brexit Super Tuesday’, as they start voting on the Lords’ amendments to the government’s Brexit Bill. They say they are backing the amendment that would give MPs a ‘meaningful vote’ on the final Brexit deal because they love parliamentary sovereignty that much. Pull the other. These are people who for years happily handed over huge swathes of law-making to Brussels bureaucrats and would still like EU law to enjoy supremacy over UK law. They support parliamentary sovereignty like an electric chair supports your back.

As Brexit Super Tuesday gets under way, all eyes, or at least most eyes, are on Amendment 19. The other amendments are important, of course, not least the Customs Union and EEA ones. Our lords, in their infinite wisdom, have advised that us plebs were wrong to vote out of the EU and therefore politicians must now endeavour to rectify our idiocy and keep us in parts of the EU at least.