Talk:Padfield v Minister of Agriculture

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Looks like vandalism renaming all 'milk' to 'miwk'.

Likely a chaos and confusion activity in response to the case mentioned on Guardian page of live political events, see here:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/27/brexit-major-fears-johnson-could-use-privy-council-to-bypass-law-preventing-no-deal-live-news?page=with:block-5d8dd1028f084ab84172e23c#block-5d8dd1028f084ab84172e23c

24m ago 10:11 The legal commentator, David Allen Green, has rejected the notion that Boris Johnson could get round the Benn Act via the privy council and says any attempt to do so would be swiftly repudiated by judges.

David Allen Green @davidallengreen · 1h The constitutional position is simple

It is not open to the government, by Order in Council or side letter or a message written on the side of a startled cow, to do a thing which circumvents or frustrates a statute

Public law 101, 1968 case of Padfield

David Allen Green @davidallengreen And any attempt at such tomfoolery can and would be quashed by the High Court on the basic Padfield constitutional principle within a couple of days, if not a few hours

Principle so basic it would not need to go to Supreme Court

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