BREXIT : WILL IT EVER HAPPEN ?

The decision of the High Court that Parliament must have a vote before the Government can invoke Article 50 of the European Union constitution has shown only too clearly that those who want the UK to stay in this egregious organisation will not go away.

The people of this country voted to leave the Union and yet the Court has now determined that this vote is not binding. It has, instead, effectively said that the Government will have to seek Parliamentary approval, possibly by a new Act of Parliament, in order to fulfil the expressed Will of the people.

The Government intends appealing the decision though it seems that success is unlikely. Clearly, any Parliamentary vote will be highly problematic with numerous MPs, such as Ken Clarke, being only too keen to prevent any realistic 'Brexit' from ever occurring.

Whatever the interested parties have said and are saying, it is abundantly clear that the 'Remoaners' will use any means at their disposal in order to keep us in the EU, while ignoring the result of the referendum. To this extent, this is no more than a re-run of what has happened in other EU member countries when referendums have produced the 'wrong' result; things are delayed and replayed until the 'right' result was achieved, and the same is the case now.

If ever there was a need for UKIP, it is now. Please God, they get their act together and mobilise the people to achieve what they voted for in June.

PARENTS MUST DO AS THEY'RE TOLD !

There was a time when we elected Governments to deal with matters to do with the running of the country. Those elected dealt with the defence of the realm, the national finance and economy and international trade; they also set overall policies and targets for national services such as health and education. Sadly, those days are long gone, and Governments now increasingly interfere in our everyday lives, claiming that they now what is best for the population who, by definition, must all be morons.

Yesterday, the High Court ruled that a fairly recent initiative that has led to parents being fined and pilloried for daring to take their children out of school during term-time has been wrongly applied. The Court effectively said that the local authorities and school heads, who have been merrily raking in the pennies from parents who have refused to kowtow to the diktats of these petty bureaucrats, have been acting well beyond their powers. One wonders if parents who have been forced to cough up hundreds of pounds may not now be demanding their money back, and one also wonders what the response will be.

Shockingly, the immediate reaction of the Government has been to say that they will have to change the law to ensure that they can continue to tell parents what they can and cannot do regarding their children's school attendance. The current law requires that parents ensure that their children attend 'regularly'; it seems that the Government will now change this to some form of wording which will make it ILLEGAL for children to be taken out of school in term time without absolute proof that the child is ill or for some other 'approved' purpose.

If this isn't dictatorship, I don't know what else to call it. Children are the responsibility of their parents, not of the state. Of course, parents should make sure that their children go to school regularly and the vast majority do; parents tend to have the best interest of their children at heart and know instinctively what is best for them, the Government does not. The Government has no knowledge of individuals and can only set frameworks which, by the very nature of frameworks, must have flexibility and room for manoeuvre. For Government to set down rules which will criminalise parents who refuse to accept life in a state-imposed straight jacket and dare to rebel would, itself, be criminal.

More and more, our personal, everyday lives are controlled by a handful of self appointed experts and by those in power who are sure that they know what is best for the rest of the population. Is it not time that the people who are so put upon make their voices heard and cry 'ENOUGH' ?