Brexit or Elexit: Leaving May Trigger a New Election, Street Riots
Nikolai Gorshkov
SputnikNews.com
10.06.2016
The debate about whether to Remain in or Leave the European Union has been spiced up by Lord Howell of Guildford, who in his own words “decided to add some salt and pepper to the Brexit meal.”
Speaking at an In-Out debate, organized by the University of Kent, Lord Howell told the assembled audience of politicians, academics and journalists that the current Parliament would not pass the laws needed to put Brexit into practice, should the Leave campaign win.
He warned that the government would not have the required majority, and the pro-Remain MPs would rebel against the government.
“If there was a Brexit there would be miles and miles of legislative adaptation of secondary legislation — and primary legislation — and the government would be beaten at the very first vote because it would not have the required majority.”
For Brexit to happen at all, there would have to be legislative underpinnings of a new parliament, and that means a new general election, according to Lord Howell.
He did not specify which would be “salt” and which would be “pepper” but the audience sneezed quite forcefully. Is there going to be a constitutional crisis?
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