The rise of the Brexit Party has changed everything, and the PM must be forced out of office immediately
If she had even a shred of dignity left, Theresa May would have resigned. She has ruined the Conservative Party, turbocharged the return of Nigel Farage and her disgraceful Withdrawal Agreement stands no chance of getting through Parliament.
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Mrs. May’s withdrawal agreement is a veritable booby-trap, designed to blow up her successor and her party as an open, angry revolt….
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..but it’s not just the Prime Minister who is letting the country down. The Tory Party’s institutions are failing equally badly, and threatening it’s very viability as the U.K.‘s dominant force on the center-right.
The 1922 committee once again passed-up on the opportunity to change it’s rules.
At least Mrs May is due to meet Sir Graham Brady on Friday, where he will hopefully turn-up the pressure, but will that really be D-day? or will the can be kicked down the road again?
The root cause of the problem is that too few Tories realise that we’re in the political equivalent of a bank-run. The depositors are queuing to take their money out; and the whole system is about to implode.
The choice is either urgent, decisive and painful action, or a Canadian-style collapse for the Tories when the inevitable general election comes. Every day is an embarrassment further toxifying the Tory brand and each one of Mrs May’s pronouncements is costing the party more support it will struggle ever to recover. The European elections will be a catastrophe.
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There may be a chance of a Tory-Brexit Party pact as some point, but zero chance the supporters of Mrs May’s deal or her allies will be spared the full force of Nigel Farage’s Party.
The reality is that nobody who believes in Brexit can possibly vote for Mrs. May’s deal.
There is no longer any excuse, no longer any room for doubt.
Mrs. May’s latest version is an admission that the established parties will never allow us to leave the E.U.
It is an attempt to entrench the status-quo, the symbol of a broken West Minster stuck on a doom-loop.
In its denial of democracy and its decision to put process above substance, it is also a provocation.
It tells Brexiteers that they will only get change if they elect new MP’s from new parties; many will oblige, keen to usher-in a fresh, more responsive politics.
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