Brexit and Parliament: The Anatomy of a Perfect Storm
Brexit and Parliament: The Anatomy of a Perfect Storm
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英国脱欧和议会：完美风暴的剖析
作者：
M. Russell
威斯敏斯特议会是英国民主的核心。然而，在2016年公投决定离开欧盟后，它的角色和权力在“英国脱欧”过程中变得越来越有争议。激烈的争论被框定为“议会与人民”，这助长了民粹主义的叙事，并提出了关于英国主权应该在哪里的根本问题。本文描绘了英国议会脱欧“完美风暴”的各个阶段，并将其原因追溯到四个因素：公投的设计、（不熟悉的）少数政府时期、严重分裂的政党以及议会规则在促进解决方案方面的弱点。最终，英国脱欧的争论主要是保守党内部的争论，但议会受到了指责。
The Westminster parliament lies at the heart of UK democracy. Yet its role and powers became increasingly controversial during the ‘Brexit’ process, following the 2016 referendum decision to leave the European Union. Fierce arguments were framed as ‘parliament versus people’, which fed a populist narrative and raised fundamental questions about where UK sovereignty should lie. This article charts the stages of parliament’s Brexit ‘perfect storm’, tracing its causes to four factors: the design of the referendum, a period of (unfamiliar) minority government, deeply divided political parties, and the weakness of parliamentary rules in facilitating a solution. In the end, the Brexit argument was primarily one inside the Conservative Party, but parliament got the blame.