Court Jester: How Boris Johnson Lied to the Queen and Broke Theresa May’s Record

As noted earlier, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (BoJo the racist clown)’s predecessor, Theresa May, broke records: from losing votes by the biggest margins in Parliamentary history to leading the first government to be held in contempt of Parliament. But, never one to be outdone, BoJo lost his no-deal Brexit agenda before he took office, with media widely reporting that his flagship no-deal-if-necessary policy was already opposed by the majority of MPs, as indeed occurred on Monday 9th September when a bill requiring BoJo to try to avoid a no-deal by seeking an extension of Article 50 with the EU before October 31st received royal assent, becoming law.

Having sacked over 20 of his own MPs for defying the whip, losing his wafer-thin majority by minus 45, and losing all six votes in as many days, BoJo is set to break May’s already astonishing record as the worst PM in British history. But the really big news for constitutionalists is that BoJo lied to the queen. In itself this is meaningless. But in the UK, where the entire political system is based on undeserved respect and undue deference to the monarch, it is considered to be a scandal.

Britain is not a democracy. It is a constitutional monarchy without a written constitution; an historic fact to which many liberal politicians, pundits, and voters are finally cottoning on. The queen exists to rule, not to decorate the nation. No bill, such as one to shorten the Parliamentary session in order to make a no-deal Brexit more likely, can become law without royal assent. It is customary for the members of Parliament appointed Privy Councillors to advise the queen on political matters, in this case as to why Parliament should be prorogued and get her royal seal.

The courts in England dismissed the case against BoJo’s prorogation. But the courts in Scotland, which have jurisdiction over England because both are part of the UK, ruled otherwise: “The Court will accordingly make an Order declaring that the Prime Minister’s advice to HM (Her Majesty) the Queen and the prorogation which followed thereon was unlawful and is thus null and of no effect.” Prior to the ruling, a Tory MP sacked by BoJo, former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, told Parliament: “When the Treasury Solicitor’s Department … sought to find a public official willing to depose in affidavit as to why the Government had decided to prorogue—and I might add, asked Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament, one must assume—no such official willing to swear the affidavit could be found. As a consequence, a number of documents were simply exhibited by the Treasury Solicitor for the Government’s case.”

Notice that no Privy Councillors, led by the multimillionaire Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, were willing to sign the affidavit, which suggests a plot to mislead the queen, as do BoJo’s handwritten memos, released on the order of the court, which revealed that prorogation plans predated his public statements. BoJo referred to the September Parliamentary session as “a rigmarole” or inconvenience to his no-deal plot and seem to suggest, contrary to what he told the queen, that prorogation at this time of national crisis (i.e., a potential no-deal Brexit) was somehow normal.

Were it not for the Establishment’s fear of a Jeremy Corbyn government, the Tories, especially with BoJo at the helm, would have been kicked out long ago.

Dr. T.J. Coles is an associate researcher at the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and the author of several books, including Human Wrongs (iff Books).

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