Thread by @RobertCPalmer13

We already knew it but former UKSC judge, Lord Sumption has confirmed we're in a constitutional crisis: The govt is using prerogative powers w/out a majority in the commons. Ministers can't use such powers w/out a majority. It's a 'serious situation'.

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channel4.com/news/lord-sump…

‘The FACT is that our entire system depends on Ministers being responsible to Parliament & NOT directly to the people’. If Ministers exercise Crown powers w/out being responsible to Parliament ‘they are effectively responsible to nobody’ (Lord Sumption)

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Ergo the 'will of the ppl' expressed through Parliament is how the UK constitution is geared; there is no scope for the 'will of the ppl', as expressed through a ref. Its impossible for Parliament to ask for the ppl's opinion every time an important decision needs to be made

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To have govt by referendum, we'd need to change the system, change the UK constitution. So, the very notion that parliament is bound by an advisory ref is unconstitutional unless the constitution is changed. Only dangerous fools believe otherwise. They're called Brexiters.

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We are now in the ridiculous situation where the Justice Minister (Robert Buckland) needs to tell the PM to obey the law. As Lord Sumption said, 'some PMs need reminding'. I wish he had not retired and had the chance to remind him on Tuesday in the UKSC.

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I'm not confident that the UKSC will alter the courts stance (to date) of hiding behind Brexit being a political matter, but hope that the judiciary will put the charlatan Johnson in his place & remind him he must follow the rule of law & restore parliamentary sovereignty

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