The U.K. House of Parliament today voted down Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement for a third time. It was a smaller defeat (344 to 286) than the previous two tries, but a loss nonetheless. Several stalwart Conservative Brexiteers such as Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg reluctantly voted for the deal only because they concluded the alternative was no Brexit at all. The Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, whose 10 MPs have kept May’s coalition in power, held firm and once again voted against it. While Labor is mostly pro-EU, their MPs for the most part nonetheless voted against the deal for political reasons. The Remain-dominated Parliament, including PM May, has already and foolishly ruled out a no-deal Brexit, which would trigger WTO rules, even though various public- and private-sector entities have come forward to say that they are prepared for that eventuality. Opinion polls suggest that the general public and rank-and-file Conservative Party members favor getting out of the EU without a deal.
Theresa May must get the award for the world’s worst negotiator, whose deal the world’s best orator Nigel Farage described as a surrender document.
May’s template, which amount to Brexit in Name Only, would keep the U.K. under the thumb of the European Union indefinitely as a non-voting member. The British public voted by referendum on June 23, 2016, to free themselves of the bloated EU bureaucracy and its heavy-handed rulebook.
From Westmonster:
“The government now face the choice of a No Deal or seeking a further, lengthier delay to Brexit. With the country increasingly behind a No Deal Brexit and a large majority of Conservatives in favour of a WTO Brexit, this should now be an easy decision. A further delay would mean European Elections, which Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party would be contesting. The establishment could rightly expect an absolute pasting.”
Calls are increasing for the completely ineffective (or worse) Theresa May, a Conservative in Name Only, to step down and let a true Brexiteer take over. She even promised (if anyone can believe any of her promises at this stage) to resign if the deal passed. The problem is that her cabinet, from which a successor is likely, is dominated by pro-EU, anti-Brexit globalists who are hell-bent on ignoring the will of the people.
May repeatedly promised the British electorate that Brexit means Brexit, that the U.K. would officially leave the European Union on March 29, and that no deal is better than a bad deal.
