Emancipation & Liberation

Allan Armstrong gives his response to the latest constitutional crisis hitting the UK state

It’s the constitution stupid – After the Boris ‘coup’ let’s fUK it!

Contents

1. A constitutional and legal coup under Crown-in-Westminster sovereignty
2. The UK’s growing constitutional crisis, the retreat of neo-liberalism and liberal unionism and the growth of right populism and reactionary unionism
3. The continued rise of right national populism and the hard right in the UK
4. The May 23rd Euro-elections – Farage’s right populist victory paves the way for the hard right take-over of the Tory Party
5. The asymmetric polarisation of UK politics
6. From Maybynism to Borisbynism? – Labour’s role in helping to move official politics to the right
7. Neo-liberal attempts to turn back the right populist challenge over Brexit
8. The right and centre Remainers take politics to the streets
9. The Lexiters’ (and Irexiters’) economism and abstract propagandism
10. The emergence of left Remainers, Another Europe Is Possible, and their turn to the streets
11. Conclusions

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1. A constitutional and legal coup under Crown-in-Westminster sovereignty

The decision taken by Boris Johnson and his backers  to prorogue Westminster on the 28th August represents the culmination of a prolonged constitutional crisis, which began with the Scottish independence referendum between 2012-14, and has been accelerating in the aftermath of the Brexit vote in 2016. Today we have liberals (in all the mainstream British parties), and even some conservatives, bemoaning  the unconstitutional and illegal nature of the decision taken by the unelected prime minister, Johnson, along with privy councillor, Jacob Rees-Mogg (Tory MP representing the eighteenth century), and the unelected head of state, queen Elizabeth. However, the UK state, based on the sovereignty of the Crown in Westminster, with its armoury of anti-democratic Crown Powers, gives enormous power to the dominant section of the British ruling class. Proroguing parliament is both constitutional and legal. Continue reading “It’s the constitution stupid – After the Boris ‘coup’ let’s fUK it!”

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