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Court to Rule if Boris Can Be Jailed for Refusing to Delay Brexit
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... to request a Brexit extension or face a fine or imprisonment. The legal bid has been launched by anti-Brexit campaigner Jolyon Maugham QC and member of the leftist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Joanna Cherry. Both were involved in the successful Supreme Court challenge against the government over the suspension of parliament last week. The case is being funded by millionaire green energy  ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The greenin the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... industrialist Dale Vince. Lord Pentland, an Outer House judge, will hear the case at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Friday. He will rule whether it should be moved to the senior part of the court, the Inner House, on Monday according to The Scotsman. Last month, the British parliament passed a law, the Benn Act, which forces the prime minister to seek an extension of Article 50 to the end of January 2020 if he fails to pass a deal in the Commons by October 19th. The law also prevents Boris Johnson from taking the UK out of the EU without an agreement on October 31st. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Remain activists fear that Johnson’s team will exploit loopholes in the law and deliver Brexit on October 31st, as the prime minister has pledged "without or without a deal". Last week, a Downing Street front man said that the government "will comply with the law, but we are leaving on 31 October". Related: Boris Johnson: 2019-10-01 UK's Johnson denies allegations of patronage, groping Boris Johnson: 2019-09-30 Tried and true methods are the best (#MeToo on Boris) Boris Johnson: 2019-09-30 Interesting Happy Jewish New Year wishes Related: Brexit: 2019-10-01 UK's Johnson denies allegations of patronage, groping Brexit: 2019-10-01 One dead, 10 missing after vessel sinks in Atlantic Brexit: 2019-09-29 Moment of truth coming for Brexit with time running out, says EU Posted by: Fred 2019-10-03 |
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