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Suspension of Parliament Unlawful

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Note: this was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058107 but seemed to get flagged down pretty quickly

Can you to elaborate why this should be on the front page of a website that calls itself "Hacker News"?

The only technical angle I can think of was the sound problems - heavy rain meant that the opening part of the judgement couldn't be heard

Or maybe the transmission was hacked? Or even better, weather engineering was used to make it rain.

Someone tried to an interesting hack on the UK's operating system, but it was prevented by a semi-autonomous subroutine.

Read this before forming an opinion..

"Why Hasn't Brexit Happened?"

https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/why-hasnt-brexit-happe....

“ The page you are looking for has been removed.”

Not super illuminating, TBH.

it seems it has changed..

https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/why-hasnt-brexit-happe...

> The Brexiteers are the party of the unwritten British constitution as it existed from the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 until Britain’s accession to the E.U. in 1973. This is the tradition of “parliamentary supremacy,” as John Locke called it, or “parliamentary sovereignty,” as it more often came to be called.

Not sure I'd be sending this article around as the canonical last word on Brexit after the prorogation and today's ruling on it.

From scanning it, I think that’s a biased text. Reason:

”The E.U. insisted on a guarantee, now referred to as the “Irish backstop,” that after Brexit Britain would maintain a “soft” border with Ireland, an E.U. member state.”

The backstop wasn’t the EUs idea, it is an attempt to find a way between the EUs “the EU border needs border controls” and the UKs “the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland shall remain open”.

”there were proven solutions: non-E.U. Switzerland, for example, keeps its borders, travel, and trade open with four major E.U. countries. These problems only became “insoluble” when E.U. diplomats discovered they might be used to tangle up the Brexit negotiations.

That proven solution has Switzerland sign 10 inseparable treaties that solidly link Switzerland to the EU “the sum of which makes a large share of EU law applicable to Switzerland” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_U...)

If the UK had wanted a similar deal, they likely could have had it, but, among others, they would have to enter the Schengen area.

I think Switzerland is more part of the EU than then UK currently is.

It’s definitely a biased site - Claremont is a conservative think tank.

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