Is this man for real? He just makes up numbers.

Attempt at a coup d'état?

Rory Stewart Roderick James Nugent Stewart, OBE FRSL FRSGS is one of these people that would be fun to have as a guest at a dinner party.   

Entertaining, full of stories, some exaggerated to make it more exciting perhaps?  But I suspect people would begin to tire of him as he became more and more unbelievable.  His claim that he is actually the main challenger to Boris in the leadership campaign is truly remarkable.  But he clearly believes it.

Indeed, such is his self confidence that he is threatening / promising to lead a coup d'état, should Boris win the leadership contests.  Yes, he proclaims he would up an alternative legislative chamber if Boris prorogues Parliament.  You can read on the offical UK Parliament web site what that actually means.  So if it is on the offical Parliament, it's not illegal.  Far from it. Indeed, there are very good reasons why it has to be an option available for a prime minister.

I suppose a legitimate question is, why would anyone wish to prorogue parliament?  I think the answer is Prorogation would only be considered to ensure that the democratic process of implementing what the people of the UK voted for in 2016 is implemented.   

Indeed, it can be argued that it could be used to implement what MPs, including Mr Stewart, voted for when they voted to overwhelmingly to trigger Article 50.    

Oh, and let’s not forget about implementing the manifesto commitments of the Conservative party at the last general election.  (Perhaps he never read the manifesto like he may not have read the Article 50 legislation that he enthusiastically voted for).   

And as a method of delivering government policy it has recent use in spite of all the wailing.  Take Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2010.  Or further back, Clement Attlee in 1948.  Now, given MPs voted to implement Article 50, it’s only right that the government makes sure that it is implemented to its conclusion.     

Some have noticed Mr Stewart's selective approach in his faux outrage on democracy as it does not seem to stretch as far as reneging on a legal referendum duly authorised by him and Parliament, where by the winners polled 17,410,742 votes.  Clearly of the Liberal Democrat school of thought, democracy is everything, as long as I win, Mr Stewart should think carefully before threatening to establish an "alternative parliament" because that could well be outside the law: it sounds dangerously close to sedition whereas to prorogue Parliament is not illegal.    

Is Mr Stewart an egotist beyond measure?  That's for you to decide.  But I suppose you could sum up our dinner guest as a typical hardliner Remainer who won't accept the democratic will of the people in a referendum, the will of the House of Commons in which he sits when it voted for Article 50 or respect a secret ballot for leader of the party.  His vow to bring down the democratically elected leader of the Conservative Party down because he didn't win the argument is really the worst case of throwing your toys out of the pram.

We've actually left the EU already.

"Whichever way one looks at it, the Agreement was either unlawful or made for an unlawful purpose or ultra vires.  That means that the UK left the EU on the 29th March 2019 by default as there was no valid or lawful impediment to prevent it."   

So says Stanley Brodie QC in an article.  He recently retired from practice at the Bar of England and Wales after over 60 years, including over 40 years as Queen’s Counsel.  He practised at the commercial Bar from Blackstone Chambers, being instructed in a wide spectrum of cases. He is also part of Lawyers For Britain.   Quite a smart chap then.   

So bearing in mind his legal view, perhaps the next Conservative Prime Minister could find it useful to say on Day One of his or her time in office that, since we have already left the EU legally, all we can do is negotiate our relationship for the future.

Who owns the constitution? The Speaker or the People?

John Bercow’s comment that the prorogation of Parliament is “simply not going to happen” is remarkable. It may be unpopular, but it is a perfectly constitutional position. 

The Speaker clearly thinks “one rule for you, another for me” is an acceptable approach, until he finds parliamentary process can be used to thwart his will and instead implement the will of the people as displayed in the referendum of 2016.

Fabric of society undermined by non democrats.

Just look at the contorted nasty face of the woman shouting "scum" at an American.  Like those around her in that melee, she is a Remainer that can’t stomach the fact that the people of the UK voted in a way she didn’t like.  Welcome to the nasty side of Remain.

And that is the problem with all those that say we shouldn’t "normalise" Trumps behaviour.   They can't see the plank in their own eye.

So we shouldn't accept that people like this woman are trying to "normalise" Liberal Democrat policy that says that we should over turn a democratic vote just because they don’t like it.   She clearly is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a democrat.  Nor are the Liberal Democratic Party candidates standing to be the leader of their party.  Every one of them seeks to overturn a democratic vote by the people of the UK.  Democrats?  You kidding?

I’m not too sure which is the most appalling. Trumps behaviour or Remainers undermining democracy.  I do know which will do the most lasting damage to the social fabric of our country and the families who live in it.  And it’s Not Trump.  

Protest about the right things.

Let’s see.  Current leader of the Labour party.  Supports dictatorships that destroy their nations hopes, and their economy. Nicaragua.   How about previous Labour leaders who got to be PM.  Lump Mr Brown and Mr Blair together as they were in it together.  Iraq.  Afghanistan.   Illegal wars.

Now, love or loathe Trump as person, as far as I can see he is the only USA President who hasn’t actually waged an illegal war, killed innocents by the thousands and whose only fault was keeping his campaign promises.  Some people might not like some of his promises, but that's why we have democracy. Elections.  Let the people choose.  Even President Obama, who hoped to sow peace, instead led the nation in war.   Indeed, in all of his eight years in office, the USA was at war somewhere, a rather dubious record to hold.

President Trump is actually is keeping he promises he was elected on.  There’s a novelty Mrs May might like to have a wee chat with him about. Though we won't be seeing many pictures of the President and the Prime Minister.  Would you really want to be photographed with the captain of a ship that has just had to leave their post as they were steering the ship on to rocks?

That the people of the USA democratically elected him says as much about the USA as it does about their president.  But, even with all these reasons why people don’t like him, the ridiculous fuss Trump Haters are churning out is remarkable.  He is being treated worse than the Chinese President or the King of the House of Saudi.  Now these are two gentleman with the human rights records as of the countries they lead, that is worth protesting about.   Let’s not forget Tiananmen Square. Or the oppression of women in Saudi.  

These are things to get angry and protest about.