Brexit, a Scottish judge gives reason to Boris Johnson: he has the power to suspend Parliament

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A point in favor of the government in the battle that promises to be long and unpublished. The first legal initiative against the suspension of the British Parliament decided by Prime Minister Boris Johnson was rejected by a Scottish judge.

The Edinburgh magistrate Lord Doherty has established that the premier has the powers that allow him to suspend the parliament rejecting the arguments presented in yesterday's emergency hearing according to which Johnson acted in violation of the Constitution.

Against Doherty's decision, an appeal will almost certainly be presented by the group of 75 deputies and lords who have presented the appeal. The British government has to deal with two other judicial initiatives in London and Belfast. The former premier Sir John Major also participates in the London one, promoted by the anti-Brexit activist Gina Miller.

Major against Johnson
The former British Conservative prime minister announced that he turned to a lawyer to appeal against his successor and party's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks before the official Brexit date. "I have no doubt that the prime minister's motive is to override a sovereign parliament that opposes his policies. Over the course of the events I will continue to resort to legal opinions on the legality of this and other issues, but I will not comment further," said Sir John at the BBC. In July, Major had announced that he would go to court if Johnson suspended Parliament. Major has announced that he will join the appeal already presented by the anti-Brexit activist Gina Miller in front of the High Court.


Prime Minister's party loses pieces
The decision of the Tory leader in Scotland, Ruth Davidson, to resign, reports the Guardian, has been officially taken for family reasons. But it comes the day after Johnson's request to Queen Elizabeth to suspend Parliament, probably to have a better chance of taking the UK out of the EU by the 31/10 deadline without an agreement with Brussels. In the message Davidson, convinced 'remainer', mentions "the conflict I experienced on Brexit".

Davidson to the deputies, to avoid the no-deal vote the agreement
"The simplest way to avoid a Brexit without agreement is to vote for an agreement," Davidson suggested at the resignation press conference. "You have had three opportunities and you have rejected them all, do not reject the fourth", said the deputy who said she was convinced of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's attempt to obtain a new understanding with Brussels. "Make it clear that if an agreement returns to the Municipalities, you will vote in favor, and let the EU know that you will do it so that they understand that there is a reason to reopen the negotiations."

BoJo, successor to Theresa May, disavowed the agreement she reached with the EU, asking him to renegotiate it. The main sore point for London is the backstop, the mechanism to avoid the return to the physical border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. To put pressure on the EU and convince her to retrace her steps, the prime minister continues to threaten the release without an agreement on October 31st. This is the reason for the suspension of parliamentary work until October 14 requested by the government, a move to remove room for maneuver in the Parliament, which in majority wants to avoid the no-deal.

A few hours pass, and in open controversy with Johnson also leaves the Tory group leader in the House of Lords, George Young . "They have not convinced me - he explained in a letter - the reasons given for this decision, which I think risks undermining the fundamental role of Parliament, at a decisive moment in our history, and reinforces the vision that the government may not have the confidence of the Chamber for its Brexit policy ". George Young is a long-standing parliamentarian, serving every conservative government, from Margaret Thatcher onwards.

Meanwhile, the petition against Johnson's suspension of the Parliament has exceeded one million signatures.

One million signatures against the closure of the Parliament
The petition against the suspension of Parliament, launched after Johnson's initiative, has reached over one million signatures. The petition asks that the Parliament is not "suspended or dissolved unless and until the period of Article 50 has been sufficiently extended", with reference to the part of the Lisbon Treaty on the ways in which a country can leave 'EU, "or the United Kingdom's intention to withdraw from the EU has been canceled".

Hugh Grant vitriol against Boris Johnson
The actor Hugh Grant was not at all liked the decision of the British premier to ask the queen for the suspension of the Parliament: according to the interpreter of 'Notting Hill' and 'Four marriages and a funeral', Boris Johnson is nothing but a "toy rubber bathtub too promoted ". Grant intervened on Twitter beginning: "You will not fuck my children's future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend". The actor continues with a "vaffa", comparing Johnson to a "too publicized rubber bath toy," and states: "Britain is disgusted with her and her small band of masturbator prefects".

You will not fuck with my children's future. You will not be able to defend yourself from my grandfather fought two world wars to defend. Fuck off you over-promoted rubber bath toy. Britain is revolted by you and you little gang of masturbatory prefects. https://t.co/Oc0xwLI6dI