U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May today met with Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who critics describe as a Marxist, to try to break the Brexit deadlock in the House of Commons, the British parliament. May repeatedly promised the British electorate that Brexit means Brexit, that the U.K. would officially escape the Brussels-based European Union on March 29, and that no deal is better than a bad deal. She has lived up to none of those commitments. The deal that she negotiated, which Brexit champion Nigel Farage calls a surrender document and a binding treaty, would actually keep the U.K. trapped in the EU as a non-voting member, i.e. Brexit in Name Only (BRINO).
In a betrayal of the will of the majority who voted for Brexit (i.e., to exit or leave the EU) on June 23, 2016, the British political establishment along with the Remain-dominated parliament are intent on orchestrating the softest Brexit possible as well as even engineering a second referendum. Tonight, Parliament plans to debate a measure that would rule out a no-deal Brexit, thereby forfeiting the country’s strongest bargaining chip with the EU. Polling data suggest that the public favors a no-deal Brexit, which would trigger World Trade Organization rules. Despite the pro-EU, London-based echo chamber’s “Project Fear” campaign, various public- and private-sector entities have nonetheless stated that they are prepared for a no-deal Brexit. A no-deal status enables U.K. entry into trade arrangements with individual countries without being bogged down by the EU rule book and bureaucracy.
May Is Making Britain Worse
Ordinarily, politicians prefer to hold on to power, compile a good reputation and legacy, and strengthen their party’s electoral dominance. Conservative in Name Only Theresa May is inexplicably doing nothing of the sort — as evidenced by her incompetently handled (mishandled) Brexit negotiations, the terms for which were essentially EU dictated.
For the U.K. public, globalist, Remainer May offers perhaps something of a trifecta: stubborn, duplicitous, and tone deaf. In so doing, she is creating massive divisions in her own caucus as well as in the country. In the June 2017 election, May and the Conservatives collectively promised to deliver Brexit.
May should have appointed a strong Brexiteer to head her bargaining team rather than listen to the pro-EU, anti-Brexit Deep State. That’s the difference between May and a chief executive like U.S. President Donald Trump, who is serious about putting the best interests of the country first.
A Customs Union Sell-Out
From the London Spectator‘s email update on today’s developments:
“Theresa May’s decision to seek votes across the House and start Brexit talks with Jeremy Corbyn in a bid to pass her deal sent shock waves through the Conservative party today. Two junior ministers – Nigel Adams and Brexit minister Chris Heaton-Harris – resigned over their reservations about the plan of action. In his resignation letter, Heaton-Harris said his job of putting no-deal preparations in place was irrelevant now that it was clear the Prime Minister has no intention to allow Britain to leave without a deal. Perhaps May can take small comfort in the fact that talks with the Leader of the Opposition have so far proved ‘constructive’.
“The worry among Brexiteers in the Tory party is that ‘constructive’ means a permanent customs union is now almost inevitable. This arrangement is toxic to many because it means the UK would be severely limited in what free-trade deals it could sign across the world – and would have little to no say on the ones the EU signed on the UK’s behalf…”
Johnson and Rees-Mogg Reject Stitch Up
Westmonster explains that stalwart pro-Brexit Conservative MPs Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg are outraged that May is trying to, in U.K. slang, arrange a “stitch up” (i.e., a crooked scheme) with Corbyn and the pro-EU Labor Party.
“In a statement on Twitter, Boris reacted by saying: ‘It is very disappointing that the Cabinet has decided to entrust the final handling of Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
“’It now seems all too likely that British trade policy and key law making powers will be handed over to Brussels – with no say for the UK.
“’As it is, we now face the ridiculous possibility of being forced to contest the European Elections more than three years after leaving the EU and having to agree to exit terms that in no way resemble what the people were promised when they voted to leave.
“’The PM and Cabinet have concluded that any deal is better than No Deal, and this is truly a very bad deal indeed – one that leaves us being run by the EU.
“’I can under no circumstances vote for a deal involving a Customs Union as I believe that does not deliver on the referendum.”
“Mogg was equally scathing and has said: ‘This approach to government is an unsuccessful one and it also lacks democratic legitimacy.
“’This is a deeply unsatisfactory approach. It’s not in the interests of the country; it fails to deliver on the referendum result and history doesn’t bode well for it.’
A May-Corbyn Customs Union stitch-up would be a complete betrayal and Brexiteer MPs cannot allow it to happen under any circumstances.
Besides its far-left politics, rampant anti-Semitism is the Corbyn-led Labor Party’s calling card.
Farage Touts Transformation
On his LBC radio show today, Farage, a member of the European Parliament who leads the new Brexit Party, suggested that the establishment’s intransigence could force a major political realignment in the U.K.
It’s difficult for third parties to gain traction, however, in domestic parliamentary elections in Britain because there is no runoff if a candidate gets far lesss than 51 percent (which often happens). Plus, people feel they have no choice but to tactically vote Labor to keep the Conservatives out and vice versa, thus leaving other, smaller parties out in the cold.
The pro-Brexit cohort crosses party lines, however, with millions of Labor voters (which we would analogize to Reagan Democrats or Trump Democrats) supporting a clean break from the EU. Most rank-and-file Conservatives (a.k.a. Tories) also back Brexit, further suggesting that May and parliament are completely out of touch.
