Author: Shen Shiming
British Prime Minister Theresa May's draft Brexit Agreement has been rejected by Congress and will break through the Congress again this week.It has been two and a half years since the Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016, but British politics is still in an impasse. It is still unreasonable to deal with the constitutional crisis exposed by the Brexit after Brexit.
Drag and drag no writing constitution collapse
The House of Communist Party of China continuously vetoed the agreement reached by Trysame and the European Union, which did not constitute a crisis.After all, the British Parliament was not the first time that the government's bill was rejected. In August 2013, Britain was ready to join Syria, but the British Parliament finally vetoed his troops and forced US President Barack Barack to abandon Syria.
The reason why Brexit became a unique crisis was that it was too long: the Suez Canal crisis in 1956 ended in one month, but the Brexit chaos has been two and a half years.Second, the British political system completely failed: the cabinet meeting kept leaking secrets, the collapse of political party discipline, and the rewriting of parliamentary practices.Stewart Wood, a Labor Party, said that the Brexit chaos shows that Britain's unwritten constitution has basically collapsed.
Britain has always been proud of the oldest democratic government.Most countries will write the rules of political system operation in the Constitution. However, the United Kingdom has no written constitution. The Constitution has not been compiled and not included. Instead, it is scattered in ordinary law and informal political practice.This system has been effective in the past, but the Brexit process has reached the point where power and responsibility have been unknown.Tracing the source, the root cause of the crisis lies in the Brexit referendum in 2016.Although the voting is officially speaking, it is regarded as sacred and inviolability, marking that the council sovereignty explained by the 19th century British constitutional scholar Dai Xue (A.V. DICEY) has evolved into people's sovereignty, causing a series of problems: If the people talk about the peopleHow can sovereignty, not supported Bei Ai and Scotland?Another problem is that Parliament does not want Brexit.
Prime Minister lack of ax party members rest assured to veto
According to the practice, the government lost the voting of Congress on major issues, and the Prime Minister resigned, and disbanded the pre -election of Congress.However, in 2011, the UK passed the regular parliamentary law and stipulated that the general election was once five years. Two -thirds of the early elections must be disbanded by the parliament or a simple motion of the most unbelievable motion.
This means that the ruling members can veto the government's motion without facing the early election, causing the Prime Minister to lose a large weapon forced party members.
However, the bill also provided the power to decide the agenda of the House of Representatives with the government.This leads to an deadlock: the government is too weak to rule, but Congress is confusing and unable to afford the rule
The next question is whether Britain can make constitutional reforms to resolve crises?How does this crisis affect North Ireland and Scotland?Whether the Brexit will be separated from the collapse of the United Kingdom, it is no longer a hypothetical issue.
The British MDASH of the University of Dublin, Ireland; the Irish Institute recently announced a large -scale research plan to study the development of constitutionalism after Brexit and the impact on Ireland and northern love.
