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The recent shenanigans carried out by Extinction Rebellion over a fortnight in and around central London marked the nadir of British politics as heretofore understood and practised. Waving placards,demonstrating en masse and venting vacuous platitudes on any matter is of course de facto guaranteed by our unwritten constitution.Largely because any given demonstration by itself doesn't herald much if any of a change in government policy or challenge any set of accepted legal norms. Unless,that is we have a government in meltdown and we're in the midst of an unprecedented fully blown crisis of constitutional legitimacy.Which we are. Up pop a mysteriously funded,fully formed campaigning organisation capable of launching a planned,co-ordinated two weeks long disruption of daily London life and traffic flows. An eco-millenarian cult that has metastasized across the european continent and has its own High Priestess/Delphic Oracle in Greta Thunberg. In the face of this largely

Confused ? You will be.. (This gleaned from  Wikipedia) The United Kingdom's component of the  2019 European Parliament election  is due to be held on Thursday 23 May 2019.  Initially, the elections were not planned as the United Kingdom's  withdrawal from the European Union  (following the  2016 referendum ) was set for 29 March 2019. However, the British government and the  European Council  agreed to delay Brexit at the  European summit  on 11 April. While it is the default position in UK and  EU  law for the election to take place, the  UK Government  is continuing attempts to avoid participation by agreeing withdrawal before 23 May. and what precisely is this "parliament " allowed to do? Article 14 of the Lisbon Treaty describes the functions of the European Parliament:  “The European Parliament shall, jointly with the Council, exercise  legislative  and  budgetary  functions. It shall exercise functions of  political control  and  consultation  as laid

For an apparently inchoate protest movement, Extinction Rebellion certainly seem to have caught the limelight. Here's what the inveterate, smug metropolitan Labour cultural elitist hack Polly Toynbee  spewed forth on Thursday April 18: " D ay four of  Extinction Rebellion , which has been a phenomenal success, as climate protesters occupy four pressure points in Britain’s congested capital. Everything has conspired to maximise attention for their climate cause, with the news unnaturally quiet in this pause in Brexit hostilities.   Extinction Rebellion: trio charged over train protest in Canary Wharf   Climate protesters are the soul of peace and goodwill, their pink boat welcoming Oxford Street shoppers, who mainly stop to talk. The surprisingly few police are friendly, with the 400 arrests curiously voluntary, people well-warned in advance so those who can’t be arrested step back. Is it true the police cuts have left too little capacity to arrest everyone? Two

Background:  Here's what BBC News OnLine had to report:- Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Mr Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. The Met Police said he was arrested for failing to surrender to the court. Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew Mr Assange's asylum after his repeated violations of international conventions. But Wikileaks tweeted that Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law". Home Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted: "I can confirm Julian Assange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK" It's a sad day for whistle-blowers, investigative journalists and truth-diggers everywhere.It's an even sadder day for what tattered shreds remain of the UK's reputation for the

We're stuck inside the EU's prison walls. We remain " EU Citizens ",even though we were never asked if we wanted to become EU citizens in the first place let alone asked to make a decision about it. The creation of  EU Citizenship opened up the Road to Sedition upon which the UK is journeying. I originally posted this on February 21 2017 -And So It Goes...#849 :- The trouble with people who suffer from paranoid delusions is that, clearly there might well indeed be someone out to get them. But not right now. Various cities across  Britain were ,on Monday 20 February once again awash with the flotsam and jetsam of placard waving detritus. Yes, exactly the same shills out earning their CIA funded stipend who were placard waving and reciting platitudes with all the fervour of a papist penitent the previous week,were out metaphorically flagellating their own consciences yet again. #stoptrump was supposed to be the catechism,although as the seemingly interminable h