There was a time when British parliamentarism was the mirror in which all the democracies of the West were looked at. But that admirable tradition seems definitely ruined since David Cameron opened the devilish spigot of the referendum and the triumph of Brexit crowned a campaign of rude lies strategically disseminated to fuel the low instincts of the electorate. Theresa May tried to channel the exit of the European Union from her country in the most painless way possible, but a political class debased by populism and a public opinion unable to articulate a rational opposition culminated in the rise to power of Boris Johnson . A demagogue of manual, opportunistic and unscrupulous, who worked his journalistic career at the stroke of lies calculated to flatter the nationalist drive of his readers and that has not changed strategy to access the number 10 Downing Street. Where today governs after a party arrangement without having gone through the polls and from where it has just launched the greatest challenge to British democracy that is remembered in time: demand that the Queen suspend the Parliament to prevent the opposition from organizing the resistance to the suicidal commitment of a Brexit without agreement.

Certainly, Jeremy Corbyn is guilty of having held for a long time a suspicious stance on the EU, as well as the late reaction of Labor to the europhobic ordagous. But Johnson's decision is unprecedented. With buffoon ways, encouraged by Trump's bravado that invites him to cut off with the Union, the new premier pushes the United Kingdom in an autocratic direction , as it undermines the separation of powers, discards parliamentary control and commits the institution itself monarchical if this is necessary to boost your plan without obstacles. All this covered in an "ambitious legislative agenda", classic pretext of the autocrats. The truth is that the Queen, in avoidance of a very serious institutional conflict and carried out of her duty of neutrality, has been forced to accede to the pretensions of the populist leader: Parliament will be blocked for five weeks, thus annulling any democratic opposition to the plans Johnson's daredevils. The pound plummeted yesterday. And the president of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has described the petition as "constitutional outrage", in the understanding that British constitutionalism survives in tradition and not in the letter.

We do not know if this maneuver will end with the newly constituted government. But we know two things. That the hard Brexit will generate a social and economic drama whose consequences may not be aware of the main victims, who are British citizens. And that when power is delivered to populism, not only a country but an entire continent ends up paying it.

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