Last week was another varied one locally as I continued my
busy Summer Recess schedule. I took part in a litter pick on Tuesday after a
student from Carclaze School brought a local grot spot to my attention. On
Wednesday I spent the day on Ennis Farm near Fraddon seeing first hand what
life is like on a busy dairy farm – a really great experience. I visited
Treliske Hospital to see some of their new medical equipment, met with local
care providers and had another busy MP constituency advice surgery in St
Austell. I also paid a visit to the new Primary School at Nansledan in Newquay
and attended the turf cutting ceremony for the new community hub at Newquay
Orchard.
Summer Recess has been a busy time and I have also enjoyed
being able to spend time out and about around Cornwall catching up with friends
and family. This week Parliament returns and with our Brexit date of 31 October
getting closer things are getting very interesting.
Last week our Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that
Parliament would be prorogued ahead of a Queen’s Speech in October.
This predictably led to cries of outrage from those people
who are against the government, with all sorts of sensationalistic language
being thrown about regarding the so-called suspension of democracy.
This is all nonsense of course. Normally there is a Queen’s
Speech every year in order for the Government to outline its legislative
programme for the coming months. When a new Government is formed, as Boris
Johnson has done since he became Prime Minister, a Queen’s Speech is necessary
in order to outline its legislative programme. Boris was elected just before
the Summer Recess and now is his first opportunity to do this. The current
Parliamentary session, which has lasted since 2017 is also the longest in
hundreds of years and it is only right and proper that it end and a new session
start with the new Government.
Not only this but the Parliamentary Calendar breaks for
Conference Recess, the time when all political parties hold their annual
conferences, every year from mid-September. Last year for example Parliament did
not sit between the 14 September and the 8 October. But nobody batted an eyelid
then.
What Parliament could do in the four days they are now not
sitting this year, I am unsure. They have already been debating Brexit for the
past three years and we are no further forward. If there is a constitutional
outrage, it is by those who are seeking to usurp the government and force
through legislation to delay Brexit in less than a week, which goes against long-established
Parliamentary procedures that have served our country well for hundreds of
years.
It is important to see the real motives of the people
currently attacking the Government for what they are. They want to stop Brexit,
nothing less. They say they want to avoid a no-deal Brexit, but have consistently
voted against a deal when we have voted on one earlier this year. These people,
mostly Labour MPs who stood on a platform of delivering Brexit and now have
changed their minds, and Liberal Democrats, who have never respected the
outcome of the 2016 Referendum, are the real enemies of democracy. They are
doing all they can to go against the will of 17.4 million people who voted to
leave, and the vast majority of those who voted remain who respect the outcome
of the referendum and just want us to get on with it.
As your MP I remain committed to respecting the result of
the Referendum, and the will of the people as voted on nationally and
particularly in Cornwall and our constituency, before moving on to deliver the
many exciting policy announcements Boris’s new government have made over the
summer.
