Saturday 2 February 2019

Why is everyone still talking about a no-deal Brexit?

If there was decent proper political leadership in the United Kingdom, he or she would stand up in the House of Commons and with eloquence and passion and Churchill-like phrases tell every MP, male, female, Brexiteer or Remainer, "There is only one way forward and that is to stay in the EU. That would be in this great nation's best interest. I care not a fig (very Shakespearean) for the Conservative Party's future nor the Labour Party's, I only care about the future of this country and therefore let us give up this idea that there is a better world outside the EU. Let us stay in the European Union and be great Europeans and change what we don't like from within the EU. The 2016 referendum was a mistake, a stupid mistake carried out by my own party and we sincerely regret the upheaval it has created. But I, as leader, have decided for the sake of all our futures to stay as we are. It will be better for all of us. I'm sorry for those who want to leave the EU but it is not going to happen." To rousing cheers, she or he will raise the Union Jack in the air and cry: "Let us end this division and follow me." More rousing cheers and every MP follows him or her out of the Commons chamber and out into the sunlight. This is the sort of scenario I dream about. But we don't have that sort of leader, we have MPs who don't agree on anything, we have a confused public who have stopped trying to understand what it is all about, we have Leavers who now want to remain and Remainers who now want to leave. We are all angry and scared and fed up with the lack of leadership. More and more planning is going ahead in anticipation of leaving the EU without any deal. How can this be? Why is all this money being wasted on something which CANNOT and MUST NOT happen? Why can't our leader say, "We cannot afford to leave without a deal, and that's final". But our leader, Theresa May, wants the no-deal option to be in place to blackmail everyone including the EU, into a deal that will make sense for everyone. OK, that may work, but my God if it doesn't then we WILL leave without a deal. We will crash out into a future that is unplannable and unpredictable. Politicians squabbling like children is never going to get us anywhere. March 29 is NEXT MONTH.

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