“So fair and foul a day I have not seen” – Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3
Can this beautiful May afternoon get any worse for McBrown? Em, yes. Stuart Wheeler has been granted permission to hold a High Court hearing over the Government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the renamed EU Constitution. Even Open Europe didn’t expect him to get a full hearing on this – but he hired a top QC and at the High Court Mr Justice Owen has said Wheeler has an “arguable case.” The hearing is due on the 9th and 10th June – which raises questions as to whether the issue is now sub judice. CoffeeHousers may think “this is mad, Wheeler has a snowball’s chance in hell.” But people said the same about his getting the hearing in the first place. This government has created such a net of legalistic traps that its own EU policy may very well be caught up in it itself.
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