Those Very Honourable Members

The current session of Parliament has lasted a record 340 days and in that time those very honourable members (and I am sure that they are all honourable members) have achieved precisely nothing significant as far as Brexit is concerned.

Now it may well be that those honourable members were elected on their promises to their constituents to honour the result of the referendum, which voted for Brexit but they now honourably think that they do not have to honour their promises. It also seems that they have not had sufficient time in those 340 days in which Parliament has been sitting to deal with Brexit. I exclude time taken for honourable members to take honourable holidays at their honourable leisure. This must be the case because they are all honourable members and honourable members do not lie.

The present government wishing to get on with Brexit and strengthen its negotiating position with the EU has suspended Parliament from 12 September until 14 October 2019. It is not a long time – 19 working days by my count -especially when you consider that most honourable members will be honourably attending the political party conferences for at least 10 of those days when Parliament is suspended. But honourable members need to keep Parliament running for those days; they tell us so and they are all honourable members and honourable members do not lie.

Many honourable members opposed to Brexit have started court proceedings in which they hope that the suspension of Parliament will be over turned so that those honourable members can continue to honourably try to find ways of preventing Brexit happening because they know for certain that Brexit will damage our prosperity (but not our democracy): they are all honourable members and honourable members do not lie, such is the quality of honour to be found in honourable members. In addition, they are honourably seeking to encourage demonstrations and protests about the suspension of Parliament which they honourable designate as an affront to democracy and they are all honourable members and honourable members do not lie.

I think that the legal challenges will fail. The honourable members seeking to honourably thwart the democratic decision of the people say that the government is acting dishonourably and tyrannically in attempting to implement the will of the people. It would be a position worthy of the late unlamented Dr Josef Goebbels if it were not the position of so many honourable members and honourable members do not lie.

The irony of these challenges in court is that the honourable members seek delay in order to attempt to introduce legislation to prevent Brexit. The ability to introduce legislation is one of the powers of honourable members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The democratic Parliament of the European Union has no such power.