The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP or Ukip) may be on the comeback trail in the aftermath of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan, which is seen as a capitulation to the European Union.

May has been criticized for giving away the store, the farm, and the fisheries in the negotiations over exiting the EU, which won’t officially occur until March 29, 2019.

This turn of events prompted Brexiteers David Davis and Boris Johnson, along with several lesser known politicians, to quit May’s cabinet, which is a reflection of widespread opposition to May’s plan. (Unlike the U.S. system, U.K. cabinet members are separately elected on their own as parliamentarians, so quitting the government means that they still retain their seats in the House of Commons).  Other Conservative Party officials have also resigned their positions in protest over May’s proposal.

From Breitbart London:

“It was at Chequers — the Prime Minister’s countryside retreat — on July 5th and 6th 2018 that May nailed her Brexit colours to the mast. Her proposals would see Britain effectively remain inside the EU’s Single Market for industrial goods and agricultural products forever. The country would sign up to a free trade area regulated by a so-called ‘common rulebook’ dictated by the European Court of Justice. It would remain subject to EU state aid rules and keep its employment, environment, consumer protection, and social regulations at least as stringent as the EU, and would also agree to collect customs duties on the EU’s behalf for goods destined for the bloc.”

Recall that on June 23, 2016, U.K. voters approved a referendum to exit the European Union and regain the country’s sovereignty. As leader of Ukip at the time, Nigel Farage is credited with compelling former Prime Minister David Cameron to reluctantly authorize the referendum in the first place.

Theresa May, Cameron’s successor as both Conservative Party leader and the country’s prime minister, is part of the globalist establishment that supported the Remain side, but she vowed to honor the will of the people. In was probably a precursor to what was to come when she dragged her feet about invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which was necessary to begin the EU divorce process.

As alluded to above, because of the Brexit sellout, Farage has said he may return as Ukip leader in March 2019 unless the so-called Chequers plan is shelved. Because of various leadership debacles that have been well documented, Ukip has fallen on hard times,  if not irrelevancy, ever since Farage stepped down. It has no members in the House of Commons and has suffered vast losses in local elections, along with rank-and-file members quitting the party. According to Westmonster, however, the May sellout has caused UKip membership to surge.

Said Farage, who is a member of the European parliament and a political pundit on U.K. and U.S. media,  in a London radio interview:

“I fought for a quarter of a century to get us to position where we won that referendum and I cannot stand aside and see a bunch of gutless, spineless, useless career politicians throw it away.”

Theresa May barely hung on to power when a June 2017 snap election backfired. Since politicians are motivated by self interest, May’s timid, Brexit-in-name-only deal really doesn’t make sense for her own career, apart from its fundamental betrayal of the British electorate. Why would she drive a wedge into her own party which could jeopardize her premiership in the short term and possibly hand the government to the far-left Labor Party in the next national election?

Her Brexit plan will go to the House of Commons for approval, where it will likely be voted down at least by many or most of the conservative MPs. The Labor Party tends to support a continued entanglement with the EU, so it’s unclear how the final vote will shake out.

While described by some media outlets as a right-wing party, the populist UKIP appeals to disaffected Labor voters on the center-left (which might be equivalent to Reagan Democrats or Trump Democrats on this side of the Atlantic) and some conservatives on the center-right. A revitalized Ukip could be a player in the next election, which is scheduled for 2020 but could occur sooner especially if Theresa May is ousted, thereby taking votes from both of the country’s major parties in the convoluted U.K. electoral system.

In the video below, ex-cabinet member Steve Baker professionally and and in a plain-spoken manner explains why he left the May government over Brexit

Updates: In a roundabout way, President Trump throws shade on May’s Brexit plan. “Brexit is Brexit.”

Via the Guido Fawkes blog, the British public is rejecting the deal, which is simultaneously tanking the Conservative Party. Did Theresa May and her team ever get the memo about good policy equaling good politics?