AFTER years of undemocratic resistance to Brexit, the Remainers are suddenly gripped by panic at the reality of a Government which is determined to enact the 2016 Referendum result.
That is why they descended into such frothing hysteria at Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament next month, thereby restricting their capacity for yet more plots and procrastination. Amid their frenzied desperation the anti-Brexit campaigners pretend that Britain now faces an unprecedented constitutional crisis. The air is thick with wild accusations that the Government has perpetrated a “coup”. Such claims are nonsense. The Prime Minister has done nothing illegal or unconstitutional.
Nor is Parliament barred from deliberating on Brexit before our departure date of October 31.
If Remainer MPs want to block no deal, revoke Article 50 or pass a motion of no confidence in the Government, they can still try, though this noisy rabble has shown little sense of purpose or unity.
All the fevered outrage about a supposed crisis has also revived one of the favourite causes of the chattering metropolitan liberal elite, namely the demand that Britain should have a written constitution.
The advocates of this argue that our uncodified system lacks coherent rules and safeguards, so it is ripe for exploitation by ruthless politicians like Johnson. “What a mess,” wrote the lawyer Adam Wagner this week while calling for a written constitution. He went on, “Is it too much to ask that at times of national crisis, we have a clear set of principles” that can “prevent abuses of power?”
This is typical of attitudes in fashionable progressive circles, always ready to sneer at any British tradition. To such critics, the United Kingdom is an aberration because we are one of the few nations on earth without a written constitution.
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