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BATTLE FOR BREXIT
WELL DONE, BORIS!
WE WANT our freedom. MPs have done every-
thing they can to stop us peasants getting what
we voted for. Go for it, Boris. History will
remember you.
Name supplied, rugby, Warks.
THE Remainers constantly refer to a No Deal
Brexit as the Sword of Damocles. The Prime
Minister has applied his knowledge of
Ancient History to employ a swift solution to
the Gordian Knot of the Brexit conundrum.
The country is in an unprecedented crisis
and needs an unorthodox resolution. And it
has got one that is truly Churchillian.
JOHN BUGG, Fareham, Hants.
THREE years we have been waiting for this.
Bring it on, Boris!
BArrY DAViES, Chorley, Lancs.
BORIS is right to press ahead and get the job
done by any means.
P. GOODDEN, Kidderminster, Worcs.
REMOANERS complaining about the
Government being undemocratic is tripe. The
country decided to leave the EU three years
ago and since then the traitors in Parliament
have prevaricated.
BriAN JOHNSTON, romford, Essex.
THANK goodness we now have a decisive
Prime Minister.
BriAN CHriSTLEY, Abergele, Conwy.
IT IS illuminating to see the hysterical reaction
of MPs to measures being taken by the Prime
Minister to ensure the will of the
people is carried out.
It is now obvious that while
initially professing support for the
result, and voting twice in Parlia-
ment for Brexit, many MPs had no
intention of making that a reality.
They regard only their wishes as
democratic and those of the people
to be of no account.
JAMES WOOLLEY,
Halifax, W. Yorks.
WHAT a hypocritical uproar. MPs
have been trying to sort out
Brexit for the past three years.
Boris will sort it in the next
two months.
S. EDWArDS, Holmfirth, W. Yorks.IT IS rank hypocrisy for Remainer
MPs to say the Government’s
action in suspending Parliament is
undemocratic.
They have spent three years try-
ing to negate the greatest demo-
cratic decision taken in these
islands, and now they try to
present themselves as the guardi-
ans of democracy.
COLiN BULLEN, Tonbridge, Kent.PHILIP HAMMOND and Anna
Soubry believe that to
prorogue Parliament will be a
constitutional crisis. Is itconstitutional to ignore the will
of the people in a referendum?
GEOrGE HATCHMAN,
Cheshunt, Herts.IT IS a little rich for Commons
Speaker John Bercow to rage
against the Prime Minister’s deci-
sion to prorogue Parliament,
calling it a ‘constitutional outrage’.This from the man who in January
went against the advice of the
Commons Clerks and told the
Commons he could disregard
precedent and change procedure
as he wished, while admitting he
hadn’t fully thought through
the implications.
Parliament has done little else
but talk about Brexit for three
years. The time for talking is over.
DES MOrGAN, Swindon, Wilts.THE suspension of Parliament is
great news. We need to fight the
undemocratic Remoaners at
their own petty games.
DAViD BECK, Waterlooville, Hants.SUSPENDING Parliament is the
only way to allow the Prime Minis-
ter to go into negotiations without
his hands being tied.
MPs are spouting about democ-
racy, but they have blocked everymove to carry out the result of
the referendum.
DAVE CrOUCHEr,
Doncaster, S. Yorks.IF THE only way to bring about
Brexit is to suspend Parliament,
so be it.
SHirLEY HOLCOMBE,
address supplied.WE VOTED out and regardless of
all the plotting, we are going!
DANA PErriN,
Ticehurst, E. Sussex.IT’S not democracy to try to shut
them up, claim the Remainers.
Where was the democracy in
blocking a No Deal, our best
bargaining chip?
JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks.THE Remainers are outraged
about the suspension of Parlia-YESTErDAY, the reaction from
Mail readers was instant —
and overwhelmingly in favour
of Boris Johnson’s decision to
prorogue Parliament. Here are
some of your forthright views
— as well as very different
responses from the handful
who disagree...And YOUR view?
Go for it, Boris!
A lesson from history: let’s not lose our heads
SUSPENDING Parliament didn’t end well
for Charles I when he did it in similar —
although very different — circumstances
nearly 400 years ago.
His prorogation from 1628-29 was the first
of many attempts to muzzle MPs in the
build-up to the English Civil War and
resulted him in being beheaded in 1649.
Like Boris Johnson, the king felt he had no
choice, being confronted by ‘some fewe
cunning and ill-affected men’ in the Commons
who were plotting against him. But those
‘cunning and ill-affected men’ won the day.
On January 30, 1649, Charles was led to thescaffold by the Banqueting House in
Whitehall. Wearing a white nightcap, he
made a short speech and concluded by say-
ing: ‘I go from a corruptible, to an incorrupt-
ible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no
disturbance in the world.’
He then asked his executioner: ‘Is my hair
well?’ After saying two or three words to him-
self, Charles laid his neck on the block and
his head was severed with one clean blow.
The king had paid the price of losing a
battle which began when he tried to get theapproval of Parliament to raise new taxes
after a series of military escapades. But MPs
were fed up with Charles’s demands and got
him to accept a Petition of Right in return,
which was intended to limit his powers.
However, Charles duped MPs by taking the
money but he prorogued Parliament in June- He reopened it in January 1629.
In March 1629, he ordered an adjournment
which MPs refused to accept. Two held the
Speaker in his chair to keep Parliament
sitting. Outraged, Charles dissolved
Parliament for the next 11 years, ruling
unchecked himself. By 1640 when he resum-
moned Parliament, his authority had drained.
That session lasted only three weeks before it
was dissolved by the king for several months.
This new Parliament lasted for 20 years but
tensions swiftly exploded into the Civil War.
When Charles was beheaded on that freez-
ing day in 1649, he wore two shirts to stop
him shivering and because he didn’t want the
crowd to think he was scared. Today, his sec-
ond over-shirt is framed in Windsor Castle. It
is said the Queen likes to show it to visitors.
Indeed, history tells us the potential
dangers of an unruly Parliament and also of
stopping MPs conducting their business.By Harry MountQQQ Daily Mail, Thursday, August 29, 2019IT HAS been claimed that prorogation of
Parliament would stop MPs being able to
play their democratic part in the Brexit
process. What about our part in the
democratic process? We voted and the MPs
have still not implemented our decision.
ViV WiLD, Aylesbury, Bucks.To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 020 7566 0360.‘I don’t know HOW he got in — can’t we prorogue Mr Corbyn too?’
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