Final night time's resounding 372 Commons majority calling on ministers to set off Brexit earlier than the top of March should absolutely put the matter past doubt.
Certainly, it could be perverse within the excessive if the Supreme Court docket had been now to rule that the timing of withdrawal should return to Parliament, giving die-hard Bremoaner MPs and unelected friends an opportunity to sabotage a coverage backed by 17.4million voters.
Because the court docket's president Lord Neuberger put it earlier than final night time's vote, with studied understatement: 'It will be a bit shocking if the Referendum Act and referendum had no impact in legislation.'
The true thriller is how 89 MPs had the appalling vanity to dismiss the general public's verdict by voting towards the Authorities final night time
Acutely, he added that the typical individual would suppose it 'a bit odd' if his court docket dominated that an Act of Parliament was wanted to set off Brexit, after each Homes had, in his personal phrases, 'ceded authority to the folks'. Fingers crossed, his fellow judges might but come to the identical conclusion.
Certainly, the actual thriller is how 89 MPs had the appalling vanity to dismiss the general public's verdict by voting towards the Authorities final night time.
True, with their pretensions to independence – and a Stay majority north of the border – it's maybe comprehensible that 51 Scottish Nationalist MPs refused to respect UK voters' demand for Brexit.
However as for the remainder, who sit for English and Welsh constituencies, how can they appear the voters within the eye after delivering such an insult to democracy?
Considerably, they embody 5 of the 9 Liberal Democrats. Since there may be clearly nothing remotely liberal or democratic about them, is not it excessive time they modified their identify?
A job for Sir Shifty?
When he has settled his money owed to BHS pensioners, is not he simply the hard-headed kind we'd like in control of dealing with NHS suppliers – somebody who can surpass their ruthlessness along with his personal?
Occasionally taxpayers get a stunning glimpse of the way in which they're ripped off by firms charging extortionate costs to soft-touch public our bodies.
Such a revelation got here yesterday, when the competitors watchdog fined medication large Pfizer and one among its distributors a file £89.4million after the companies dramatically overcharged the NHS for an anti-epilepsy remedy.
Disturbingly, the scandal got here to gentle solely due to the colossal scale of the rip-off, when an in a single day improve of two,600 per cent despatched the invoice to the well being service rocketing from £2million in 2012 to some £50million in 2013.
In the meantime, numerous lesser swindles go unexposed, with the NHS paying properly over market costs for all the things from laptops to lightbulbs.
So the Mail has a suggestion. Six years in the past, retail tycoon Sir 'Shifty' Philip Inexperienced wrote an excellent report (ignored by ministers), figuring out huge waste in authorities procurement.
When he has settled his money owed to BHS pensioners, is not he simply the hard-headed kind we'd like in control of dealing with NHS suppliers – somebody who can surpass their ruthlessness along with his personal?
Certainly, if he managed to attain something just like the economies of as much as 80 per cent he recognized in his 2010 report, this paper can be pleased to rename him Sir Thrifty.
Our prayer for peace
Whisper it softly, however is it potential that Theresa Could is correct when she says the times of Islamic State are numbered?
Actually, a collection of reverses for these barbarians in Libya, Syria and Iraq provides sturdy hope they could be dropping management of their final remaining territories.
In fact, their defeat might depart the dictator Bashar al-Assad in control of Syria, whereas the humanitarian catastrophe attributable to the struggle will drag on for years.
However after the beheadings, crucifixions and burnings, would not the top of IS be the very best Christmas current for the world?
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