Supreme Mistake

So the Supreme Court has went against Boris and deemed the prorogation unlawful. Truly terrible decision in my opinion. For the courts to intrude into the political sphere when there was a clear route to hold Boris to account politically (i.e. via the offered election) is just absurd in my view.

..but it's just spilt milk now. So what's next.

Many today in Brexit Party circles were rounding on Dominic Cummings. Blaming him for the decision to prorogue. Personally I think this is a mistake (though I'm obviously not privy to all the goings on so I can't think this with any degree of certainty). Going after Cummings makes it look as though Boris and Cummings are in the wrong, and that the Supreme Court was correct in their judgement. It also creates more bad blood over what is again now just spilt milk.

In fact, I had one person on Twitter today arguing with me. Stating that the decision was right, and that even Farage agrees with it. I had to try to explain that Farage views it as a strategic mistake on the part of Cummings. Believing that it gave the remainers a window of opportunity and a standard to rally around. That doesn't mean that he agrees with the decision of court.

If this was a mistake on the part of Cummings (assuming it isn't part of some grander scheme) then it's an understandable one. He tried to bounce the remainers into an election, but he underestimated how low they would go. I don't think he factored into his thinking that remainers, including the likes of Corbyn and many other parliamentarians, would literally be prepared to stand there with a straight face and cry "dictator" as they voted to block an election.

It's a stunning low. No doubt they'll now go lower as they capitalise on their numbers in parliament and push through a new referendum or some other brexit blocking scheme, and ignore calls for a general election even longer.