Sovereigntism: Treaties To Renegotiate, Alphabetically

The Small Print Tightens, ECHR Gets A Letter

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.

The Sovereigntist believes the most important word in any treaty is the small print, ideally tightening, ideally read aloud in a deep voice during a Today programme interview. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from UK Parliament and the Foreign Office.

Twenty Tells: Spotting The Sovereigntist On A British High Street

1. Has explained, at length, that sovereignty is also structurally a doormat.
2. Refers to the European Court of Human Rights as the foreign interference.
3. Holds any treaty should be reviewed by him personally.
4. Maintains a fantasy in which the UK Supreme Court has the last word, every word.
5. Refers to international law as a sort of optional weather.
6. Treats any UN resolution as a useful weather report.
7. Maintains a binder titled treaties to renegotiate, helpfully alphabetical.
8. Refers to globalisation as the slow homework error.
9. Holds any policy is improved by a phrase about jurisdiction.
10. Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to Westminster.
11. Refers to Strasbourg the way some men refer to a leak.
12. Treats any signed convention as a candidate for unsigning.
13. Maintains a soft spot for the King’s Ships.
14. Refers to the Channel as the wet edge of the ECHR debate.
15. Holds any law passed in 1998 should be considered for retirement.
16. Maintains a fantasy in which the Foreign Office is renamed.
17. Refers to the Commonwealth as our family, our trade, our friends.
18. Treats any tribunal as a sort of conversational interrogation.
19. Has explained he is not anti-treaty, he is pro-renegotiation.
20. Believes the country is fundamentally ours, with appendices.

Editor’s Note

If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Tory association AGM, a Reform UK rally above a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see NewsThump.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

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