The Brexit charade

Subject: The Brexit charade.

There are moments when an opportunity arises to display ones anger at an institution which is coming under scrutiny as to whether it is fit for purpose.
I am talking of the House of Commons.

The other day the House was debating the amendments sent down from the House of Lords regarding Parliaments role in accepting or not accepting, on behalf of the electorate, the outcome of the Governments negotiations surrounding our withdrawal from Europe.
In our unwritten constitution the role of Government and the role of Parliament are separate. Government decide policy and negotiate policy, Parliament hold government to account by the way they vote. Withdrawing support for Government usually brings the government down with a "no confidence vote" but with the new fixed time parliaments (5 years) a government could conceivably carry on until the end of the fixed time period.
The importance of Brexit, equal in many measures to the seriousness of committing the country to war (a commitment which since the Iraq war has to pass through Parliament for approval) is being manipulated in such a way to avoid this parliamentary approval.
A series of amendments brought from the Lords to argue that, in its final form, the arrangements agreed with the Europeans should be submitted to Parliament for approval was being debated in the House of Commons.
Only 2 days had been set aside for this momentous decision which will effect the citizens of this country for decades to come and when the section which determined the areas of devolved  governance which had been handed to the Scottish Parliament in the Act of devolution, the time allocated, 2 hours was taken up by the minister speaking for virtually all of the 2 hours and leaving no time for the SNP to take part in a session crucial to them and the citizens they represent.
The outcome was that on a Point of Order being denied by the Speaker the leader of the SNP refused to take his seat and was ordered to leave the chamber. At which point the whole SNP parliamentary delegation walked out. I cheered their act of defiance and was extremely disappointed when the Labour Party sat on their hands and didn't follow them out preferring instead to allow the Tory charade to continue.