London beat Parliament’s duty is to hold government to account

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson said he would not prorogue (suspend) Parliament and then used an archaic mechanism to do just that.

In doing so he is avoiding Parliamentary scrutiny, which is the bases of our parliamentary democracy and the role of our sovereign Parliament.

At the time of writing the legality of this decision is before the courts.

Mr Johnson also said he didn’t want a no deal Brexit and there was a million to one chance, yet we here from a former cabinet minister that he is devoting some 80 percent of resources on a no deal Brexit.

The Prime Minister said he didn’t want a general election but tried to force one through Parliament twice.

Frankly it’s difficult to believe a word Boris Johnson says. It is even suggested he misled the Queen as Head of State. He is fast losing trust in many quarters.

It is the duty of our democratically elected Sovereign Parliament to hold the government of the day to account. As a new Prime Minister, he said he has a plan to break the Brexit deadlock.

So let him bring that plan back to the People’s Parliament and try and unite our Parliament and our country.

I was elected in 2017 on a clear mandate to try and get a sensible Brexit and to sort limit the consequences. We had a snap election in 2017 and I respect the outcome of a Tory led minority government, as I did the 2016 referendum result but it did resolve matters and did not unite the country. Parliament is struggling and a final say referendum is a logical outcome. However logic is not top of the agenda sadly.

It is frustrating with the forced suspension of Parliament and in the wee hours of the morning in the chamber of the Commons I joined Welsh colleagues in a version of Calon Lan outdoing our Scottish, English and Northern Irish friends. Music is a great unifier.

In the Constituency I met farmers on a local farm (pictured) to discuss big issues the farming community face and held constituency advice surgeries with an increase of disgruntled people suffering from the mismanagement of local services such as education and social services delivered by the local County Council.