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Theresa May has risked Brexit and her job with botched Commons ‘victory’
Her pledge would defeat our stance in Brexit negotiations immediately
THERESA May could pay an enormous price for her Commons “victory” yesterday. She may have blown up Brexit, her Premiership and maybe both.
The Prime Minister appears to have persuaded Tory Remainer rebels that Parliament can take over Brexit policy from the Government on November 30 if no deal has been struck with Brussels.
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She denies it — and seems to have said something else to Leaver MPs.
Such a double-cross, of either side, would surely be fatal.
Her apparent pledge would wreck our negotiating hand in Brussels at a stroke. It would effectively abandon the crucial fallback option of leaving with no deal.
Worse, the EU would know that by December it could be dealing with friendly Commons Remainers keen to keep us in the Customs Union and Single Market, including free movement. The destruction of Brexit, in other words.
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But if Mrs May simply bought herself time by stringing Remainers along they will go berserk. Which could guarantee defeats both on this Bill and later, perhaps, on Customs Union membership.
The country voted to take back control on June 23, 2016.
A dangerous level of control now seems to rest in the hands of a few backbench Tories bent on negating that historic decision.
Chump Chuka
REMAIN-backing Labour MP Chuka Umunna is just one of many to lose their minds over Brexit.
His attack on our “Great Britain or Great Betrayal” front page hit new heights of thin-skinned paranoia.
It was not remotely threatening, as he claimed. We deplore any threats to MPs.
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We merely made this point:
That our politicians have a simple choice between enacting Brexit in full — confident that Britain will make a success of it — or betraying the voters they empowered to determine our future.
That is not intimidation, nor a “danger to our democracy”. Unlike, say, MPs who campaign to reverse the biggest ballot box mandate in British history.
Or try to browbeat into tame obedience newspapers which robustly criticise them.
Nicely Don
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He has propelled a flaky, murderous, nuclear-armed tyrant to peace talks and won a promise of total disarmament.
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