A young girl called Dominica speaks in front of protestors gathered outside the Houses of Parliament Photograph: Richard Isaac/Rex/Shutterstock
A young girl called Dominica speaks in front of protestors gathered outside the Houses of Parliament Photograph: Richard Isaac/Rex/Shutterstock
The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, addresses remain supporters on Park Lane Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
A remain supporter on Park Lane with the European Union flag reflected in her sunglasses Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
A man holds a banner calling for an end to the ‘Brexistential crisis’ Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters
An EU balloon is tied to the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters
Remain supporters converge on Park Lane before marching to Parliament Square to show their support for the EU Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA
Source: Remain supporters ‘march for Europe’ – in pictures | Politics | The Guardian
It is difficult to comprehend where in La-La land Boris Johnson lives. He has said that he won’t call a “snap” General Election if he becomes leader of the Conservative Party and therefore Prime Minister.
But that decision is not his and hasn’t been since the enactment of the 2011 Fixed Term Parliaments Act.
Parliaments are now in place for a fixed 5 year term, except if Parliament decides otherwise.
If Parliament decides by a 2:1 majority to call an early General Election it can.
If Parliament passes a vote of No Confidence and does not pass a vote of Confidence within 14 days a General Election is called.
Without wishing to offend the Honourable & Right Honourable members of Parliament, provided one man and his dog retains the confidence of the UK’s Sovereign Parliament they can remain in Government. If not regardless of what they wish to say their mandate is they are out. It is Parliament’s choice.
Boris Johnson is a professional politician, he knows this. He is just trying to bully Parliament and the UK public.
Mr Johnson will not call a “snap” General Election because it is in no way up to him to do so, his statements to that effect are a waste of perfectly good oxygen.
Many people have signed the petition for a 2nd Referendum, some of you may have noticed that the numbers have occasionally gone down. This is due in part to fraudulent signatures being removed.
Also, a lot of people have not received and/or followed through with their confirmation e-mails. If you don’t receive the confirmation within 24 hrs, check your spam folder, if there’s still no joy, then try again. If you have received it, follow the link.
If you don’t, you “signing” on the website won’t count. Please don’t let that happen!
This petition needs as much support and momentum as possible. There are already over 4 MILLION signatures. That’s great, but we need as many as possible, more, more, more… If we don’t put all we’ve got into staying in the EU, we’ll have to make do with whatever Lady Luck or dear ol’ BoJo care to give us.
I don’t know about you but I’d rather make my own luck.