Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Brexit: 13th March, a day of infamy?

With the second defeat for Teresa May's Wretched Agreement, our esteemed Members of Parliament now have the chance to finally support the referendum result of July 2016.

Today they can vote for a clean, uncluttered, un-fudged exit from the European Union, but that is the least likely of today's possible outcomes, and we will almost certainly move on to a debate tomorrow, on whether to extend or repeal Article 50 (which allows us to leave the EU on 29th. March, about 16 days from now).

The greatest tragedy of this obstructionist and undemocratic rejection of the Will of the People, is that it will leave our future negotiators desperate to sign any and all trade deals that are dangled before them, probably resulting in the abandonment of all of those promises of worker's rights, food safety and environmental/pollution protections, that we have been assured would be paramount.

This display of disunity, and our abject inability to negotiate Brexit with the EU, has also left the UK weakened as a viable trading partner and potential ally for those in the rest of world at large.