Comments by "Edward Cullen" (@edwardcullen1739) on "Remainers Persist In Trying to Stage a Coup in the British Government" video.

"We want a People's Vote”... But we're going vote AGAINST holding a general election...
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JSENNER83 Not overwhelmingly, but by enough. The key point is that if we had an election NOW, we would find out who is right: people like me who believe there is now more support for Brexit or the others who believe the opposite. The Conservatives have confidence in the former and are willing to put themselves into the hands of the electorate to find out. Why don't the others? Why don't they trust the people? We both know the answer to that question.
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The reason people don't understand the British constitution is because it is INCREDIBLY intricate, based on a FANTASTIC balance of rights and responsibilities, where there are many powers which are untested AND HAD BEEN BUILT OVER 350 YEARS BY PEOPLE WHO WERE INCREDIBLY SMART. When you begin to understand how the constitution is structured, how it ACTUALLY *works*, you will be awestruck by its brilliance. Well, up until the Fixed Term Parliament Act, which UTTERLY broke a system tens of thousands died to bring into being...
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@alanpartridge2140 Hey, you know, the ULTIMATE poll, the one with which no one can argue is ON OFFER TONIGHT. Why won't MPs lat it happen?
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@alanpartridge2140 But the date for the election would be 14th October, which would be more than enough time for Jeremy Corbyn to go to the EU and surrender, I mean get an extension... So, I ask again, what's the hold-up? Why won't they vote to give people the chance to be heard?
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@alanpartridge2140 LOL, now that's an interesting technicality... The FTPA truly is an appalling bill. Do you honestly think he would do that? Put forwards q date to get the vote, then delay for 2 weeks? People wouldn't accept it. The whole point is that people have no confidence in politicians... And you think that they would allow that kind of lie to slide? I don't think he is that naïve. No, this claim is a smoke screen because Corbyn knows he will lose.
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@Eheroduelist It's complicated. Boris has a common touch and Brexit Party is a real threat to Labour. There are no guarantees and certainly, if Boris betrays, the Conservative party is DONE, but I don't think that will happen. Boris is acting like a strong leader. For too long we've had weak leaders - politicians afraid to do what is "right" because it will upset people. People will vote for Boris on this basis, BUT it will be the last chance. Boris is quite literally our last, best hope for peace. We either get a new Conservative government AND Boris delivers a no-deal, or a deal that's obviously, unambiguously good (which I would rate as near impossible, due to EU politicians not knowing what's good for them...). We get that or we're looking at 1930's Germany; Civil War if we're lucky, an extremist government (left, right, up or down...) if we're not. THAT is how fundamentally broken the system is right now...
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@flaviusbelisarius7517 I hear what you're saying here, but I think it has more to do with the basis and outlook of the democracy... There is a VERY great difference in attitude between Britain (and those who have inherited Common Law principles) and the Continentals. I'm not saying we're beyond tyranny, but there is (was) something about Britons that made us better able to stave them off... Sargon does a much better job of delving into this than I could ever do, but I think it's basically to do with the Anglo-Saxon attitude of self-reliance and responsibility vs. the continental attitude of state power and control. It's also something that Niall Ferguson discusses in his work on why the West (English speaking world) is more "successful" than other (don't remember exact title). This has been fun 🙂
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@alanpartridge2140 Given that the election is aimed at stopping the imposition of the law (using EMERGENCY legislation, which is only ever passed by concensus, but is now being passed by simple majority - and the Left have the stones to call Boris a tyrant!) which would make it illegal to leave the EU 'without a deal', he would HAVE to go to the Queen immediately. Once he goes to the Queen, the timetable is FIXED and there's no way to change it. Suggesting otherwise it's just plain wrong. If Boris loses the election Jeremy Corbyn would be PM on 16th, so he could just ASK for an extension. If Boris wins, he can just use emergency legislation, with a simple majority - after all, the precedent has been set - to undo the no deal bar and just take us out of the EU. No, this is cowardly hypocrisy, which is ultimately pointless, as it does nothing but undermine the protections built into the system and make us all more vulnerable to tyranny in the future. Well done to you.
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@flaviusbelisarius7517 No, I wouldn't. I agree, it's the hardest part of our constitution to understand, but actually, fundamentally, our constitution is "Britain is a Nation of Laws". There is a tacit acknowledgement that a constitution is /just another law/; it is created by Man and is, therefore, *by definition*, imperfect (which comes very-much from our Christian heritage). What we have is actually, ironically, a PERFECT realisation of what Thomas Paine said in The Rights of Man; only the living have the moral authority to make laws. A written constitution, for which, Paine advocated, is the, ironically, the dead imposing their will on the living... And as anyone who observes Tin-pot Dictators will know, a constitution is no barrier to tyranny - it is the institutions and the people that operate them that are the guardians. Another aspect is that by having an unwritten constitution, we maintain flexibility - no one (or group) is smart enough to forsee all possibilities; do you think that the Founding Fathers would be happy at corporations censoring (oppressing) people? But because the constitution didn't ban it, it's okay, RIGHT? So, no, in spite of the terrible precedent set yesterday, I do not think that the solution is a "written" constitution as the REAL problem is that the politicians don't /understand/ the value of the system we have... If I were to offer a solution, it would be something along the lines of: Throughout our history, we have held those in power to account; we have shot admirals and even beheaded a king, but we've never hung politicians... Perhaps the incentive structure under which our politicians operate needs reconsidering?
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