About 60 percent of U.K. Conservative Party members say they will vote for Nigel Farage’s newly launched Brexit Party in the elections for the European Parliament. This is according to a survey by Conservative Home, which calls the findings “the most astonishing we have ever published” and reflects anger over Theresa May’s epic Brexit failure.
Imagine if 60 percent of Republicans in the U.S. indicated they would vote for an upstart third party.
“These are quite unbelievable numbers that reflect the huge anger amongst the Conservative grassroots over the fact that the UK still has not left the European Union,” Westmonster observed.
U.K. Conservative in Name Only Prime Minister Theresa May promised 100-plus times that her country would leave the European Union on schedule on March 29, which would have eliminated the need for the country to participate in the EU elections at all. May subsequently postponed the departure date several times.. October 31 is now the target date.
In a sell out of the electorate that voted for Brexit, May and the Remainer-dominated parliament have stubbornly ruled out a no-deal Brexit even though May’s deal failed to pass the House of Commons three times.
May is the same disingenuous politician who repeatedly vowed that no deal is batter than a bad deal. She also promised that she should honor the results of the June 23, 2016, Brexit referendum, in which a majority of the electorate voted to leave the EU.
Three years later, the U.K. finds itself still stuck in the EU, amid calls from both sides of the aisle to run a second referendum.
May has been pushing what amounts to Brexit in Name Only (BRINO) rather than a clean break from the EU bureaucracy.
An elected member of the EU parliament since 1999 and former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage has described May’s deal as a surrender document. This is because it indefinitely traps the country in the EU rather than deliver independence as May and the Conservatives collectively promised in their June 2017 general election manifesto.
Conservatives under May only control parliament, i.e., the “government” (which we would consider the equivalent of the U.S. Executive Branch) with the support of 10 members of the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.
The opposition Labor Party is mostly pro-EU (i.e., pro Remain) also, although many working-class Labor voters backed Brexit. May’s Brexit mishandling, however, could nonetheless hand the premiership by default to Marxist Jeremy Corbyn and far-left Labor cohort in the event of a domestic general election in 2022 or sooner.
For the British electorate, globalist, Remainer May offers perhaps something of a trifecta: stubborn, duplicitous, and tone deaf.
Voters are increasingly becoming alienated from the insular, London-centric leadership of both Conservatives and Labor. May, in particular, seems oblivious to how she has sabotaged her own party at the local level up through the House of Commons.
It gets worse for the Conservatives. According to Daily Mail survey, 40 percent of Conservative (a.k.a. Tory) local elected officials known as councillors plant to vote for the Brexit Party rather than for their own party, if the EU elections take place on May 23, as is likely.
The Daily Mail continued:
“Three-quarters of her own councillors want Mrs May to resign – and an overwhelming 96 per cent believe that the Tory Party has been damaged by the impasse [over Brexit]. Conservative MPs preparing to return to the Commons after the Easter break have been shaken by the strength of feeling in their local associations over Mrs May’s leadership, after she agreed to delay Brexit until the end of October if she cannot strike a deal. Such is the scale of the anger that the party’s 1922 Committee of backbench MPs will convene on Tuesday to discuss changing the rules to allow a new vote of no confidence in her leadership. Mrs May is currently protected from a challenge until December following a failed coup last year.”
Pro-Brexit former London Mayor Boris Johnson is seen as the favorite to take over as prime minister if May ever gets the message to quit her job and move out from the prime minister’s official residence at No. 10 Downing Street in London.
Conservative Home also found that a massive 80 percent of Conservatives want Theresa May to step down. “Downing Street will be desperate to bring the Withdrawal Agreement back and somehow get it through the Commons. Perhaps Labor MPs will be sufficiently spooked by the Brexit Party surge to help her do so, ward off those European elections – and buttress the vulnerable position of the two main parties. And perhaps not.”
Looking ahead to a general election for the House of Commons, perhaps the Conservatives are betting that in swing districts, their constituency will vote Tory rather than run the risk of voting for a third party like the Brexit Party, and thus allow Labor to slip in.
“How much longer can Theresa May cling on for before pro-Brexit Conservatives finally manage to oust her?,” Westmonster wondered.
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