Brexit apparently causes insanity in Remainers. It doesn’t matter which political party the Remainers belong to, it doesn’t matter if they are otherwise normal, it doesn’t even matter if they live here in the UK or elsewhere. A bit harsh, you might think, but when I present the evidence from the few Brexit-related articles in today’s and yesterday’s MSM then I think you might concur.
For starters, look at this report about M Barnier’s latest pronounciations. Here’s the headline: “Barnier hails soft Brexit breakthrough – EU expects May announcement in days” (link) …
Goodness gracious me! Reading on, we learn:
“EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the outcome of talks between the Tories and Labour could emerge next week and has hinted Theresa May’s hardline approach could be about to soften. Mr Barnier stressed the cross-party negotiations could not change the 600-page withdrawal deal negotiated between the bloc and the British government. He said: “This week will be very important. We will have the results of negotiations between the Labour Party and the Theresa May’s government. Are these talks going to yield something?” He continued: “The two parties agree that the deal we have is the only one possible. The deal we have reached is non-negotiable. Mrs May agrees, so too Jeremy Corbyn. What we could negotiate and improve, is the political declaration that defines our future relationship with Britain.” (link)
This is priceless! The all-powerful M Barnier seems to be ignorant of two facts: that Labour and Tories have said their talks have not had any results and will probably fizzle out this week, and that there are crucial (for the Tories, that is) Local Elections taking place here in the UK in three days time. That’s what happens when SpAds and other advisors are on holidays and the top people are talking off the top of their heads, unaided.
Here’s the next piece of evidence: not just the Tories are fighting like ferrets in a sack, so are Labour. We heard about the fury of certain Labour Grandees that their EP Election manifesto hadn’t included a commitment to a 2nd Referendum. That row has now been taken to a higher level with the intervention of Mr Tom Watson MP who seems to have secret ambitions to supplant Mr Corbyn:
“Labour descended into civil war over Brexit last night as senior figures demanded that the party commit to a second referendum in all circumstances.The party’s deputy leader Tom Watson went over Jeremy Corbyn’s head to urge activists to lobby for a second poll. He appealed to campaigners to lobby members of the party’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) ahead of a meeting which will decide whether to make a manifesto commitment to a ‘confirmatory’ referendum in next month’s European Parliament elections.” (source)
It surely is a sign of insanity to think a ‘manifesto’ would convince voters when all have seen how the GE 2017 manifestos have been trampled into the dust by the main parties!
Not only is Corbyn’s Labour as divided as the Tories – they are as cynical about using Brexit for their own aggrandisement as the Tories:
“The idea of a second referendum is opposed by senior members of Mr Corbyn’s inner circle, who fear it would enrage party supporters who backed Brexit. Labour’s business spokesman, Rebecca Long-Bailey, yesterday suggested the party’s call for a second referendum would not apply if it did a deal with Theresa May.” (source)
Take note of that last sentence! I wonder if Remainers are sufficiently lucid to recognise that their demand for a “People’s Vote” is just an instrument used by Labour’s leadership to keep them on board while they’re prepared to do backroom deals with Ms May in order to force a GE and get into 10 Downing Street. Once in, a 2nd Referendum will be binned.
The next bit of evidence is sad, horrendous, and upsetting. We read in the DM (link):
“Brexit has become a recruiting tool for the New IRA, a member of the terror group has said as it vowed to continue its campaign of violence after murdering 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee. The militant said Britain’s upcoming exit from the EU had helped ‘put the border on the agenda again’ and that ‘it would be remiss of us not to capitalise on the opportunity’. The group has claimed responsibility for shooting dead Ms McKee last week as she watched a riot in Londonderry.”
The following illustrates perfectly the despicable attitude used by Remainers in our MSM and Parliament, in the EU and Ireland, employing the Good Friday Agreement as justification for the Backstop:
“The group was formed in 2012 after three of the four main militant nationalist groups merged, the first time since the peace deal that most of the disparate nationalist groups still intent on violence came together under one leadership. It has been responsible for other attacks since then, including the separate killings of two prison officers.” (link)
Just look at the date: in 2012 Brexit wasn’t even on the horizon, nor was a Referendum, and UKIP hadn’t even yet won the majority of EUPArl seats! But we Leavers must believe that only the Backstop will prevent new unrest? Insane, isn’t it!
Finally, as Tory grandees are making a final push for the Local Elections to prevent the predicted bloodbath – see BoJo in his paywalled Monday column in the DT here – Ms May is set to bend Parliamentary rules yet again, this time by delaying the Queen’s Speech. The Times explains:
“A viable government is defined as one that can secure a Commons majority for a Queen’s Speech. It is a test that Downing Street cannot be sure Theresa May would pass so it is doing what it can to avoid it. The longer the present session goes on the less the government looks like a going concern and the longer the list of delayed decisions.” (paywalled link)
While this may seem like an arcane Game of Rules, unimportant to us peasants, the actual reason for Ms May’s alleged attempt is crucial:
“The terms of her confidence and supply arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party, the Conservatives’ parliamentary allies, require a review of the deal at the end of each session. A Queen’s Speech that contained legislation enacting the Northern Ireland backstop in its present form would not be supported by the DUP or a handful of hardcore Tory Brexiteers, meaning that the government would fall. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act both main parties would then have two weeks to try to fashion a viable government to avoid holding a general election.” (paywalled link)
“Fashioning a viable government” – is that a hint that Ms May would be happy to make up a government of ‘National Unity’ with Labour, over the heads of the voters? You might certainly think so …
The true Brexit reason is that Ms May hopes that the talks with Labour which resume today will somehow result in Labour finally agreeing to support her WA. While Labour is playing hardball, Ms May knows that, no matter what, the EP elections will now take place, but:
“Downing Street is now clinging to the hope that Jeremy Corbyn will shift position after the European elections on May 23 and agree a deal before the new MEPs take their seats on July 1.” (paywalled link)
She also knows that the chances of the DUP agreeing to her deal are highly unlikely, thus she needs Labour. Here’s another indication that Ms May might look for that government of ‘National Unity’:
“Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the European Research Group of Eurosceptic backbenchers, told The Sunday Telegraph: “Any [potential] leader who continues to vote for this deal, who accepts it being put through on Labour votes to deliver Brexit in name only, will need to explain how they are going to achieve a confidence and supply arrangement to prop up their government. You will find yourself leading a government which collapses if you ram this deal through over the heads of the DUP.” (paywalled link)
Ms May must know that her government is doomed if she clings to her WA. Delaying the Queen’s Speech gives her a bit more breathing space while stuck between that rock and that hard place of her own making. It’s a clear case of insanity, according (allegedly) to Albert Einstein:
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
I rest my case …
KBO!
Just had the local Con councillors on the doorstep and told them I had nothing against them personally but that I’d been waiting a long time to tell their party what I thought of them.
The lower the vote share the party gets, the quicker the Hag will be hurried out of that fine building she’s squatting in.
‘Brexit apparently causes insanity in Remainers’ – agreed.
President Trump is another causation of insanity. It evokes the knee jerk, far left standard trot (Ha!) out:- misogynist, Nazi, horrible man, racist, unfit for office, and so on mantra.
The bbc pumps out four one hour programmes every week about some unfounded democrat party smear campaign, or bumming up some President Trump detractor (on freeview 231 at 7.00 p.m.). They don’t even call him Mr Trump – just Trump.
Five months on in France, every weekend the French are still trying to get change. As one protester said, how can you trust a President who gives the go-ahead to main and to shoot his own people?
This ‘madness’ is everywhere.
It is obviously a virus of some sort. Who caught it from whom, who knows?
As far as I can see, the commonality of the madness making virus, is a funny ole thing called democracy.
If you agree, then here’s the question – exactly who is funding this madness. The soft target is the standard Soros or Russia reply. But where is the path to the money? That could be the very first uS Pulitzer prize for journalism in more years than I can remember. As to a British in depth investigation, where would we find a mainstream unsullied newspaper journalist?
And what is the antidote? More of the saNe?
Perhaps we should press for the abandonment of the e.u inspired five year parliament act which was signed up to in the first week of Cameron’s and Clegg ‘parliament’ withour much comment at the time. Any mileage in a petition I wonder just to try an raise the issue?
Norman, not a hope, sorry, huge petitions against Halal completely ignored. That’s just one, there are many more to do with Brexit. All met with various excuses.
If constituents chose and elected known and trusted independent MPs who would represent the constituents rather than the ‘party’, as now, we would begin needed change. Then, just as any other employee expects an annual performance review which could determine his/her continuation in the job or replacement, according to whether or not that performance had reflected the constituents points of view, we would through natural process virtually do away with General Elections every 4-5 years. It could present early warning of those MPs in danger of being persuaded by corporations and other lobbyists, usually against the best interests of the people who voted them in.
The actions of May could indeed be put down to insanity but I believe the reality is far more serious. She is every bit as dangerous as Hitler was towards our country; truly Cicero’s “enemy within”.
Are the Tories and Labour waiting until after the local elections to stitch the country up with a WA+ deal?
Probably.
I knew Mrs May was devious but she is surpassing all my expectations of that deviousness with her constant attempts to avoid a General Election in the knowledge that she will be soundly beaten in the polls. She is desperate to cling on to office and will make any deal with anyone to secure her place at No.10, be it negotiating with Corbyn, delaying the next session of Parliament or threatening and blackmailing her MPs to support her Withdrawal Agreement.
She really is the lowest of the low, in political terms, and she a daughter of the church. I hope her God will forgive her – I’m sure the voters won’t.
There is no God. Otherwise Hitler, Stalin, Mao and May never would have been born.
As I have no belief that a lethal thunderbolt will purge us of our very own British 21st Century monster, we will have to go and waste time at the council polls on Thursday and again on the 23rd , – despite that one being an illegitimate election – , in an attempt to force her out without the assistance of divine intervention.
Not that voting counts. We proved that from the 2016 Referendum.
Mr. Bav – my personal belief is that God leaves it up to us, we have freedom of choice. Satan picks out his foot soldiers. Whether we want to elevate them to positions of power is our choice. Those that support evil may live and die regretting it.
One thing is for sure, there are no virgins in Satans domain, though there may be a few upstairs!
who had her fathers records removed , why ?
Perfect observation.
It is Jake. In quieter moments like now, it is admirable how Viv can explain clearly what is actually going on behind seemingly innocuous statements, but when things are moving swiftly in what seems like a sea of deception, it is truly amazing how she can rip out the true meaning from the mass of (dis)information she must process every day and present it in simple terms for our understanding.
Jim and Jake – you’ve made me blush right to the tips of my toes!
Thank you!
🙂
She knows there is a gang of terrorist supporting communists, salivating at the prospect of taking power ,but no
matter , the important thing is to keep us in the EU… WHATEVER THE COST!
Thought the gang of terrorist supporting communists were in power!?
As ever, Viv – great writing.