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Jo Maugham QC
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Earlier this month we wrote to the Advocate General for Scotland and Prime Minister asking for confirmation that Parliament would not be suspended to force through No Deal. goodlawproject.org/suspending-par…
On Monday we received a letter in response. That letter contained no such confirmation.
Earlier today, along with seventy-five Parliamentarians, I issued proceedings in Scotland's Court of Session, along with a request that the matter be determined by the end of August. The (detailed) petition will be published on Wednesday as a blog at GoodLawProject.org.
We remain staggered that a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is contemplating what can properly be described as a putsch. We are and would be grateful for your support in bringing this claim to safeguard democracy. crowdjustice.com/case/dont-susp…
A copy of the Petition against the Prime Minister to stop him from suspending your Parliament can be seen here. dropbox.com/s/gtijvkq2tmjx…
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Jo Maugham QC
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I can confirm that our action to prevent the Charlatan cancelling Parliament has received (without an oral hearing) permission to proceed. THREAD
A copy of the Petition, in which I am a Petitioner along with @joswinson, @joannaccherry and some seventy other MPs and Peers, can be read here. goodlawproject.org/cross-party-gr…
The Government's 'defence' seems only to be that because Parliament amended the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill it follows that it is happy with any other suspension of Parliament. This (it seems to me at any rate) is an almost self-evidently bad proposition.
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Jo Maugham QC
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If x and y have red-lines which are incompatible "fault" doesn't come into it. x and y value their own red-lines and balance the cost of failing to reach agreement. Talk of "fault" is a stratagem to deflect responsibility from the costs that x and y willingly choose to bear.
The real problem is that the present Government has no mandate to conduct that balancing exercise. May won a minority Government on a different platform. Johnson was selected by a vanishingly small Selectorate. Leave never sought in 2016 a mandate for No Deal.
Add in that MPs (in whom the Referendum Act 2015 reposed the choice of what to do) have repeatedly voted against No Deal, the decision is irreversible, and No Deal can only happen by suspending or sidelining those MPs and you have a genuine democratic outrage: a putsch.
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Jo Maugham QC
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@BaronVonDuncs @sundersays @StevePeers @ianpacemain @julia_politics @stephen_rth @carlgardner The answer to this conundrum - and in my view the real difficulty with this plan - is how an alternative Government indicates to HM that it is better placed to command the confidence of the House. If it can then (I think) the Charlatan would have no choice but to resign. 1/x
@BaronVonDuncs @sundersays @StevePeers @ianpacemain @julia_politics @stephen_rth @carlgardner If it can't then the Charlatan would be entitled to remain in Government. I am not aware of any convention (still less a justiciable one) surviving the FTPA that would require the Charlatan to resign absent another Government being in a better position. 2/x
@BaronVonDuncs @sundersays @StevePeers @ianpacemain @julia_politics @stephen_rth @carlgardner Indeed, I think the absence of any such statement in the FTPA might be thought implicitly to rule out such a convention.

So how does an alternative Government indicate it is better placed? I spent some time in July looking at this and there is no obvious mechanic in... 3/x
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