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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCourt ruling suggests Boris Johnson may have broken the ultimate taboo: lying to Her Majesty
Its one thing to make up tabloid-style tales of bumbling European Union bureaucrats, as former colleagues say Boris Johnson routinely did when he was a journalist in Brussels years ago.
Its another thing to mislead the public about how Brexit would supposedly benefit Britains struggling National Health Service, as critics say Johnson and his hard-charging fellow Brexiters did during the 2016 referendum campaign over whether to leave the EU.
But it would be quite, quite, quite another thing to deceive Her Majesty the Queen to actually lie to the 93-year-old monarchs face.
On Monday, a Scottish court ruled that the prime minister appeared to have done just that when he sought royal assent last month to suspend Parliament for five weeks. According to the sharply worded ruling, he was untruthful about his main motive for the suspension: to shut down debate over Brexit.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-11/boris-johnson-parliament-suspension-ruled-unlawful
NCjack
(10,279 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)Goodness that used to be an "off with his head" event.
LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)And get away with it. He likely thought she was getting way up there and wouldn't remember what she did. And that her age likely to be easily swayed.
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)2naSalit
(86,622 posts)He deserves to suffer in a dungeon.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)(I'm sure he played Rugby Union football at school) while shouldering off attacks.
He'll have to propose abolishing the Monarchy and establishing a Republic.
We know he studied all this in all philosophical variants and historical examples at school and university.
The guy they are calling Eugenics Cummings, too.