Comparisons have been made with the end of the Weimar Republic. This may or may not be the case as time will reveal but what it is with certainty is a manipulation and corrosion of representative democracy and its replacement with an authoritarian executive. These are days of the ghost of Machiavelli haunting the land in the form of Dominic Cummings and the mysterious shadows that now run the Conservative Party.
Those wanting a Brexit at all cost will reap what they sow and must be held entirely accountable at some point in the future.
"Shame on you, shame on you…" 8½ minutes of quite extraordinary scenes in the Commons before and after the prorogation ceremony in the Lords. We've never seen anything quite like it.
Posted by Vote Love Not Hate on Tuesday, 10 September 2019
Douglas James
