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The reaction to the high court ruling yesterday is boggling my mind. It isn't reversing Brexit, it's just giving parliament the right to decide what it looks like. Considering the whole point of independence from the EU was parliamentary sovereignty it seems odd that the right wing papers now want to deny parliament the power to debate the will of the executive.

Brexit was voted for, but not necessarily the Tory right vision of Brexit and the will of the people will be ignored if the government just decides to use this referendum to put forward their jingoistic right-wing nationalist vision of Brexit, yachts and all.

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3 hours ago, capybara said:

Looks like on the back of Fallon coming to Scotland to cheerlead the Frigate announcement, the closures are to come. He will stay in London for that.

Aye Fort George to close by 2032, Kinloss spared 'for the foreseeable future' (which hardly sounds like a cast-iron commitment to keep it to me).

As you say Fallon has shuffled off back down to London to announce this from the dispatch box, as quite clearly announcing it when he was up here would have been bad form:

Fort George in the Highlands is to close as an active barracks in 16 years' time, BBC Scotland understands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37876561

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Aye Fort George to close by 2032, Kinloss spared 'for the foreseeable future' (which hardly sounds like a cast-iron commitment to keep it to me).

As you say Fallon has shuffled off back down to London to announce this from the dispatch box, as quite clearly announcing it when he was up here would have been bad form:

Fort George in the Highlands is to close as an active barracks in 16 years' time, BBC Scotland understands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37876561



Does this mean the Jacobite threat is finally over
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On 04/11/2016 at 13:38, jmothecat said:

The reaction to the high court ruling yesterday is boggling my mind. It isn't reversing Brexit, it's just giving parliament the right to decide what it looks like. Considering the whole point of independence from the EU was parliamentary sovereignty it seems odd that the right wing papers now want to deny parliament the power to debate the will of the executive.

Brexit was voted for, but not necessarily the Tory right vision of Brexit and the will of the people will be ignored if the government just decides to use this referendum to put forward their jingoistic right-wing nationalist vision of Brexit, yachts and all.

For the other members of the EU that'll be like allowing Phil Hellmuth to watch a live EPT Poker Webcast when he's at the table, it will not happen in the manner you think it will..

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