La La Land.

[Just-Jude]

Should there have been an extra 2 minutes silence today to mourn the crushing of democracy by High Court judges?

[andy-hughes]

No.

Democracy was not crushed, the law of the land was upheld.

Inconvenient yes, but it was still the law.

[EDDIE51]

What would that be?

[EcclesCake]

Crude association.

[naomi24]

Haha! Jude, you are a card. :o)

[Zacs-Master]

Or possibly to mourne the lack of comprehension of our political vs legal systems?

[agchristie]

Not sure JJ, the jury's still out on that one...

[youngmafbog]

No, one is political the other is not.

[mushroom25]

the executive genuinely believed - or had been advised - that royal prerogative could be exercised in the matter of article 50. legal argument demonstrated that it couldn't.

fair enough.

what I found incredible is that effectively it took the will of a number of private individuals to notice this and point it out. where were the opposition? why was this not raised and challenged in parliament?

[Zacs-Master]

splutter cough splutter, (spits peace museli all over the screen).....YMB actually makes the distinction!

[EDDIE51]

^ because all the political parties except UKIP wanted 'Remain' to win.
Why would they stop something they all wanted?

[youngmafbog]

Happens sometimes ZM Jay cloths on offer at Tesco BTW :-)

[Zacs-Master]

Can't afford J Cloths since Brexit vote. Juan Sheeeet for me. ;-)

[youngmafbog]

Posh ***, I'm on Tesco Value.

[Zacs-Master]

Peasant. ;-)

[EDDIE51]

^ sorry got that wrong.
I still think that this entire shambles is a roundabout way to ensure we stay in the EU. I think T May has been 'set up' to fail. I can see no other reason the government would try to trigger A50 by a means they knew would be bound to fail. Now the Judges have ruled that parliment must debate it why has the government appealed? They MUST know that unless they can give a valid reason the original Law Lords were wrong (VERY Unlikely)it is bound to fail again!
I think that it will go on and the appeal will say the same. Then the government can say ''We tried to get out but the law prevented us'' and do a U turn on Brexit to get the result they always wanted!
I at first thought of this as a joke, but the more I hear the more it looks true!

[Just-Jude]

Millions slaughtered trying to uphold democracy, but 3 cross-dressers think otherwise.

[jno]

to think that so recently the country celebrated the anniversary of Magna Carta and it now appears she did indeed die in vain.

[Just-Jude]

Magna will be turning in her grave!

[Zacs-Master]

Is she a relation of the landlord on Eastenders then?

[New Judge]

Been watching too much Tony Hancock, jno??? :-)