Blaming two-faced, life-long anti-EU hypocrite Corbyn and his Labour crew, or the SNP, for the current Brexit impasse is ridiculous: the current Parliament versus the People democratic crisis originates in Downing Street.
Following one of the most clumsy General Election Campaigns in history, the CONfraudulents, with the support of the no-nonsense Brexiteer DUP, had an absolute majority to fully deliver a clean break Brexit – had all CONfraudulent MPs adhered to the Conservative Manifesto and their own Personal Election Address promises. But if PM May wanted to explore the feasibility of a consensus approach, surely the time for that was in the first 6 months following her 9 months late issue of the Article 50 Letter – not 6 days before an extended deadline, in the manner of a dead cat’s last spasms.
Remoaner PM May’s approach to the EU has been like a naughty schoolgirl crawling to her Headmaster’s office to discover her punishment. Even knowing the future of the UK was at stake, feeble Brexiteer Minister after Brexiteer Minister and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson all resigned with pathetic whimpers nowhere near the class of Sir Geoffrey Howe’s memorable resignation speech – none fit to be Cricket team tail-ender batters, never mind middle rankers. The rest of PM May’s fellow CONfraudulent Quislings couldn’t even muster the courage to vote her out for her utter incompetence.
It’s obvious from their complete negotiating ineptitude, such as undermining the UK’s position with inappropriate public expressions of disliking a WTO/No Deal Brexit, that most MPs have no experience of haggling a reduction on a bulk purchase of strawberries at a local fruit market for making jam, never mind negotiating anything more significant.
All appear to have forgotten that a key reason Leave edged the 2016 Referendum was because of the EU’s humiliating rebuff to PM Cameron’s attempts at persuading them to reform. The bullying EU Leaders’ intransigence has continued ever since, yet the same House of Fools who voted through the EU-originated HS2 £100B fraud, and, incredulously so ill-informed that they’ve only recently had training on the implications of a Customs Union, still can’t or don’t want to see it.
Having by an overwhelming majority delegated the decision as to whether to stay in an increasingly integrationist EU or leave it to trade with the whole world, the incompetent elite, failing to do the people’s bidding, cling to power like leeches to achieve nothing; apart from their 16 No-votes: 3 rejections of PM May’s Treaty, 12 No’s to other Brexit proposals and yesterday’s No to WTO/No Deal.
The UK is currently a complete laughing stock with a deluded PM trying to blame everyone but herself. Commenting on her chairing a seven hour-long Cabinet meeting only to repeat herself and yet again invite Corbyn for more Champagne and sandwiches to beg support for her pathetic Deal would only dignify the farce.
Yesterday, just as it looked as if MP’s couldn’t be more out of touch, Labour MP Yvette Cooper – whose Constituency voted 70% Leave – with the support of Sir Oliver Letwin and other die-hard CONfraudulent Remoaners, put forward a Withdrawal Bill making it legally binding that PM May must seek an extension to Article 50 from the EU in order to avoid a WTO/No Deal Brexit.
Fittingly, with 100’s of MP’s so brazenly and dishonourably ripping up their Parties’ 2017 GE Manifestos and Personal Election Addresses’ Brexit promises, it only won, 313 to 312, with the support of the House of Commons’ very own tag-wearing criminal, Fiona Onasanya MP, soon to be given her P45. A sad day indeed for honesty and democracy.
No wonder that in the meantime the CONfraudulents’ claim to be the party of law and order has been shown to be false, as our streets have become an outdoor human abattoir – not even meeting the pre-kill stun meat butchering regulations – aided and abetted by MP’s failure to introduce the required deterrent punishments to bring their abdication to protect people to an abrupt halt: public flogging for carrying a knife or acid and the death penalty for using either.
It appears the only hope of MP’s carrying out their promises with a WTO Brexit is if the Bill ironically causes MP’s to run out of time to prevent a WTO/No Deal Brexit, as one defeated amendment sought to avoid, or at least one of the EU 27 decide they’ve had enough of the UK’s indecision.
Cue friendly advice to France’s President Macron: veto the UK’s request for an extension – nothing like standing up to a foreign country to stir up some unifying nationalism to make yourself more popular, as Margaret Thatcher found when on the back of her justified and deserved Falklands War success, she metamorphosed from being the most unpopular PM in UK history to winning the 1983 General Election by a landslide.
As Knights of the Realm John Redwood and Bill Cash explained, a long extension to Brexit would be so costly – estimated at £36 Billion (approx. 1¼ times the current annual £28B Defence Budget) – as to probably require a Government sponsored Money Bill authorising such expenditure, adding to the UK’s now cumulative £2+ Trillion debt pile; costing £50B p.a. to service even at the current low interest rates.
Now we know they’re unwilling to implement Brexit, the Conservative & Labour Parties will face the same complete wipe-out at local and national elections as the Lib-Dems – no wonder the Dishonourable Members of the Mother of Democratic Parliaments are desperately trying to have an extension to both thwart the People’s Brexit Vote and avoid the UK having to hold EU elections on 23rd May.
Having yesterday seen how, when it suits them, MPs can bring forward emergency legislation which is expected to be made law today by the EU-loving House of Lords, it is clear that MPs’ continuing collusion in the carnage on UK streets is adding to the mostly youth blood already covering their hands.
Having read some comment from MPs during a debate I am convinced that some (many?;most?) have not read Mays WA as they seem to view it as leaving the EU. I know it’s a lengthy, boring and confusing document but surely it is necessary for them to have an in depth knowlege of it before voting on it?
They’ve been taken in by May’s assurances that the WA does mean we’re leaving. She’s a liar but they feel they have to believe her.
Surely they cant be that stupid or lazy? People like Martin Howe QC have explained what’s wrong with it, although he didn’t go far enough . And they’ve had feedback and advice from the public. Some /many of us have written to them spelling out the horrors of it.
Anything I’ve written to my MP re Brexit has gone unanswered other than a standard round robin reply setting out the position any half-wit whose watched/read/listened to the news will already know. So they’ve probably not even read your pearls of wisdom, Mary.
My MP hasn’t replied to any of my emails though that hasn’t deterred me from continuing to wite expressing my displeasure with her party and its leader.. She was parachuted in the job by Cameron, at a time when she never even lived in our county! Unfortunately for me she has a 30k maj. so the chances of removing her is zilch.
1. 30:1 is military annihilation. Now think of how many Civil Servants will have put together May’s 600+ pages of Treaty and that most MP’s/Councillors are too thick to play the civil servants at their own game by insisting on an Executive Summary and then dividing the rest up into manageable chunks for groups of them to read in detail.
2.Given Ken Clarke had the gall to publicly admit that he didn’t even read the comparatively short Maastricht Treaty he was signing, you don’t really expect the elite yes men of today to have even skim-read 600+ pages worth do you? That’s why it’s so easy for the Civil Service to take them for a ride – and possibly explains why PM May comes across as such a liar: she’s telling us what it says on the basis of dishonest briefings telling her what they think she wants to hear, rather than on the basis of having read it and understood it first hand herself.
3. When some who had voted against PM May’s Treaty saying they didn’t like certain key aspects then say if PM May resigns they’ll now vote for it even though nothing within the document itself has changed, what does that tell you about their lack of intelligence?! Incredulous.
Re 2, I seem to remember the Maastricht Treaty being printed in full by the Sunday Times in a portable pull out or it’s own section, so he had no excuse not to read it. If only our media was still independent enough to do that with the WA, at least then more would be aware that it is worse than remaining in…well as long as Article 50 still exists anyway.
The standard and knowledge of most of our current MPs is embarrassing for the country. Perhaps they should have compulsory lessons on our constitution and how our parliament works, when first elected, with a high pass mark required when questioned on them or they have to keep taking the lessons again.
Jane as we’re talking 600+ pages (= over half a ream printed double-sided), it would be completely impractical to do that – and losing the world another rain forest for such garbage for no gain . . . It cost thousands to print out just for MP’s. Anyone who really wants to read it can very easily find it on-line.
The role of MP’s/Councilors is to initially rely on the technical knowledge of the Civil Servants but constructively challenge them with the sort of questions a knowledgeable constituent would ask if they were there – so much easier with knowledge literally at our finger-tips a few clicks away but too many MP’s/Cllrs are too thick and/or lazy to do their own research.
HS2 is a classic example of how most MP’s have been hoodwinked and still quote false stats. We have a Chancellor who when announcing HS2 as Transpoirt Minister set £1.60 as his stop-loss return per taxpayers’ pound invested, yet although not an inch of track has yet been laid, as Chancellor continues with it even though the return is less than 50p. Those MP’s whose constituencies will be blighted and so know the whole thing is a £100B fraud aren’t even adequately motivated to force its cancellation on behalf of their constituents, never mind for the good of the UK as a whole, by telling the government en masse a la DUP they’ll vote against all Govt business until it is cancelled.
No wonder MP’s struggle with Brexit.
Why are you ALL (and that includes the MSM) missing District Council Elections are scheduled for Thursday 2 May 2019?
Our first opportunity to kick some smug backsides.
Come on Nigel – give us some Brexit Party candidates so there is an alternative on the ballot papers.
PS
The Brexit Party is a hard-Eurosceptic, pro-Brexit, political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 2019.
As of April 2019, the party’s representation consists of nine members of the European Parliament, all of whom were originally elected as UK Independence Party candidates. (Wikipedia)
It is no coincidence that nominations had to be in latest April 3rd 2019
Debbie , are you able to move your comment so it stays top of the comments.or is it just another blind computer program.
Don’t know TG. Let me see what I can do (and thank you for your compliment).
Lords help us
If the lordsvote this through. Isthat the end of The lords, democracy , and Britain at the hands of self serving politics. And it starts with electing people from london in Yorshire communities.
The Bill goes to the House of Lords today which we know is EU-loving. However, as there is no guillotine in the HoL it only takes one Brexiteer peer to filibuster and talk for a few days to ensure the Bill doesn’t go through before next Wednesday’s European Council meeting.
My Lords – you know what you must do. Please come to the aid of your country.
Excellent article David. And for anyone interested Gerrard upset the e.u and the SNP in particular in the ‘house of democracy’ yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs-4UYKfSig.
I don’t suppose we’ll see that on the News at 10 o’clock, will we ?!