British Pols Scramble As Brexit Falls Apart
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Confused British lawmakers have failed to find a majority for any proposal on alternatives to the government’s rejected Brexit deal, and the government is scrambling as the “remainers” remain hopeful, and those who voted to leave the EU are getting nervous after lawmakers rejected four options in votes in the House of Commons.
The so-called votes were an attempt to forge an ‘alternative’ to the government’s rejected European Union divorce deal. The government is still trying to build support for Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, which has been rejected three times by Parliament.
Britain is due to leave the EU on April 12 without an agreement unless it passes a divorce deal or secures an extension from the bloc, an unlikely proposition it seems.
The options included two proposals that aimed to retain close economic ties between Britain and the European Union. One would have kept the UK in a customs union for goods with the EU after Brexit (that one was the closest vote, failing by a mere three votes), while another called for Britain to stay in the bloc’s single market for both goods and services.
Another option wanted any Brexit deal to be submitted to a second public referendum, and the fourth said Britain should literally cancel its departure from the EU if it comes within two days of crashing out of the bloc without an agreement. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow chose the options from eight ideas submitted.
Here we Americans thought we had it bad with an idiot occupying the White House. Looks like we aren’t alone among the forest of political insanity.
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….there is also a huge political vacuum in the making – and we all know that something will fill the vacuum and, my guess is, increased nationalism.
Mark my words. If we don’t leave or ‘leave a little bit’, the right and far right will gain a lot of ground.
That, to me, is a greater worry than leaving without a deal.
It isn’t ‘Brexit’ falling apart old bean, it’s the House of Commons falling apart, and with it, if we aren’t very careful, our democracy.
17.4 million voted ‘leave’, (If you want to say ‘stupidly’ you’re quite entitled to think that), and none of them voted to leave with a deal – just ‘leave’.
A good, or even ‘fair to middling’ deal would have been fine but, without that, ‘no deal’ it has to be. (Again, call it stupid if you like but that is the way it should be)
All this talk of ‘deals’ and ‘peoples vote’ and ‘customs union’ is, quite simply, a mainly ‘remain’ House of Commons trying to prevent or, at the very least, soften Brexit. Smoke and mirrors.
I understand ‘remainers’ concerns and, indeed, share some of them. Possibly more than many would realize.
However, we have to leave and, to be honest as things stand, without a deal and take our chances with WTO terms.
If it’s disastrous then ‘remain’ can say “We told you so”, if it isn’t, then fine.
Remaining or only partially leaving, regardless of anyone’s views on it, is a betrayal of our democracy.
If it proves apocalyptic, we have only ourselves to blame but, our democracy – fragile as it is right now – needs us to leave and crack on from there for better or worse.