Saturday 17 November 2018

Which of the hardline Brexiteers are really thinking of the good of this country?

When politicians are asked why they decided to be politicians, many of them, if not all at some point, reply rather grandly that they wanted to serve. I assume they mean serve their country, or perhaps serve their constituencies and, as a consequence, serve their country. But how many of the hard ball, hardline, big-time Leavers (from the EU) are putting country first before political ambition? How many of these MPs wake up each morning and ask themselves, "Am I doing what I'm doing because it's in the best interests of the future of this country I love?" Or how many wake up thinking,"Oh my God this is a unique opportunity to get rid of Theresa May whom I have never liked and put in place a real leader like Boris Johnson or Jacob Squeezy-Mop (Rees-Mogg) or (someone no one has ever heard of before called) Penny Mordaunt?" The Brexit disaster has opened a Pandora Box of opportunities for plotting and planning politicians to do their worst and, well, plot and plan to undermine the current government instead of doing everything in their power to safeguard and protect the lives and livelihoods of the men and women who voted for them. The Conservative Party has always been like this. There is more treachery in Britain's Conservative party than in Shakespeare's Macbeth! Don't these disloyal members of the governing party want to continue having a Conservative government? The likes of Jacob Squeezy-Mop have mounted a coup against their own leader although they deny it. Etonian Jacob claims he is acting in accordance with parliamentary procedures. Yes, but it's still an attempted coup. If his coup succeeds and Theresa May is toppled, he will go down in history as the politician who let Jeremy Corbyn become prime minister. That should wipe the smile off his face but I bet if that were to happen, he would come up with some tortuous explanation about the power of democracy or some such rubbish. Right now Theresa May needs her party to gather tightly around her, just like they used to when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister - until they knifed her in the back of course. But there are so many factions in the Conservative party, all twisting in different directions, that Theresa May knows that at any moment, a grey van could pull up outside 10 Downing Street and take her away. What is so outrageous is that none of these anti-Theresa lot have come up with any alternative plan to save this nation. There IS no other way round the conundrum of Northern Ireland. There has to be a customs union arrangement to start with and then we'll see how it goes. That was always going to be the answer unless the UK goes the hard Brexit route which now means only one thing: the no-deal route. Jacob Squeezy-Mop has as much of an idea what that will do to this country as the rest of us. There used to be something called Realpolitik. In other words, you can have your dreams but in the real world, there have to be compromises. You have to face reality. Theresa May's opponents are not facing reality. They are still dreaming. And dreaming of power for themselves.

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