Stories of the week 21 July
Parliament and a group of Conservative rebels sent a start warning to Boris Johnson over his threat to prorogue Parliament to force through a No Deal Brexit. MPs voted by a majority of 41 for an amendment to a Northern Irish bill that requires a Minister to report on direct rule every week to Parliament thereby negating any chance of dismissing the House of Commons. The Press saw this as a sign of how fragile a Johnson government would be.
Adding more resistance to Johnson’s No Deal pronouncements, Gina Miller will take Johnson to court if he tries to force through No Deal and a Cross-Party committee in Parliament stated that the most likely outcome and the appropriate way forward is a second referendum.
To add even more insults to Johnson’s injuries, Boris publicly ranted about unnecessary and stupid European food laws using a kipper as an example. The stunt totally backfired and showed Johnson’s inability to grasp detail or the truth when it emerged that the very laws Johnson was moaning about were, in fact, British and not European at all.
The Conservative Leadership race rumbles on and continues to reach even lower depths of discord and misery. Philip Hammond stated that No Deal would be economic suicide for the UK and that he, plus other Tory rebels, would be willing to bring the Government down rather than see this happen. Hammond’s fear was further exacerbated when Jacob Rees-Mogg boasted of a No Deal economic boost which Hammond found terrifying that anyone was so misguided or so deceitful.
Due to appalling Conservative cuts in funding, Theresa May’s legacy will be thousands of UK families dreading school holidays instead of looking forward to them as a time for family fun. The country’s shame lies in the fact that school children will go hungry in the holidays as food banks come even greater pressure to help the many in need.
After creating the devastating ‘hostile environment’, local councils are unwilling to give the Home Office any information on homeless people fearing unnecessary deportations. The Home Office have been accused of being ‘cruel and inhumane’ as stories of officials falsifying information to evict people from the country.
New unexpected depths were hit this week by Donald Trump as he continued his fascists and racist attacks on Ilhan Omar and three other Congress women. Trump encouraged a crowd to chant ‘send her back’ home, in other words back to her country of racial origin. When Omar flew home to Minneapolis she was met with a crowd holding banners saying ‘Welcome Home!’.
Extinction Rebellion’s summer uprising took place this week. Police wanted tougher sentencing for arrested protestors and the group’s famous boats were banned from protests. Nevertheless, activists were able to make their views heard and cause peaceful disruption for the sake of ourselves and the planet.
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