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Post by fretslider on Aug 16, 2019 4:21:28 GMT -5
Lib Dems reject plan to make Jeremy Corbyn PM to block no-deal Brexit as 'nonsense'
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has rejected Jeremy Corbyns plan to install himself as a caretaker PM to stop a no-deal Brexit .
The Labour leader set out plans to defeat Mr Johnson in a confidence vote when MPs return from their summer break.
But Ms Swinson was quick to dismiss the idea, which would involve a "strictly time-limited" Labour administration until a general election, saying Mr Corbyn was not the right man for the job.
" Jeremy Corbyn is not the person who is going to be able to build an even temporary majority in the House of Commons for this task - I would expect there are people in his own party and indeed the necessary Conservative backbenchers who would be unwilling to support him," she said.
"It is a nonsense."
In a clip released this morning the leader of the opposition hit back saying: “Under all normal parliamentary process in Britain, the leader of the opposition takes over when the government collapses, so that seems to me absolutely in line with all the norms of the unwritten British constitution,” he said.
“We, the Labour Party, by far the largest opposition party, have, I think, a responsibility to take over, to ensure there is no cliff-edge Brexit.”
Green leader Caroline Lucas said: We absolutely support and welcome Jeremy Corbyn's call for a vote of no-confidence in order to avoid the catastrophe of the so-called 'No Deal'. Preventing a crash-out Brexit on the 31st October was what lay behind my [own barmy] proposal earlier this week.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/lib-dems-reject-plan-make-18937875
The recurring theme in all of this reflects the political reality.
Parliament is above monarch and people. It is about what Parliament wants or will countenance, nothing else.
