We’re told that a Brexit deal is close — but is the EU intent on pushing UK to violent chaos?
Our democracy, sovereignty and trading future are all at stake. Mrs May must defend all three. God knows what happens next week if she doesn’t
THEY say a Brexit deal is close. We just don’t see how it can be done.
The EU is making a demand of Theresa May she cannot fulfil without national humiliation, mass Cabinet resignations and near-certain Commons defeat.
Brussels must know it is utterly unreasonable to demand we stay locked in their customs union indefinitely.
Or that they should dictate when we can finally leave. Which they never would.
A 17.4million majority voted to leave. MPs voted that meant leaving the customs union.
Our democracy, sovereignty and trading future are all at stake. Mrs May must defend all three. God knows what happens next week if she doesn’t.
The Remain ultras should be loving this chaos. Except they have suffered their own disaster. The EU says if we held a second referendum and voted Remain, they’d strip us of our historic rebate on payments to Brussels.
So along with violent unrest, a collapse of trust in democracy and a huge surge in extremism, Remaining would come with a whole new price tag on top of EU membership fees:
Four thousand million quid a year.
Good luck selling that.
Step on gas
AT long last, fracking can finally get under way today.
No one knows if shale gas will prove as transformational here as it was in the US. But it is appalling we have been prevented from exploring it for seven years.
This potential goldmine, lowering bills for millions and ending our reliance on imports, has been shamefully kept in the ground by the enemies of progress.
The eco lobby’s noisy protests, absurd propaganda and out-of-date scares cowed politicians and half the population. The only thing many Brits know of fracking is they are meant to oppose it.
That will change if the vast reservoirs of gas under our feet CAN be extracted to power the country for decades.
Thanks to the defeat of the last baseless legal case, we can at least begin finding out.
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Cheesed off
THE Tories will have taken leave of their senses if they genuinely intend to tamper by law with the size or content of a pizza.
First, taxes on fizzy drinks, shopping bags and coffee cups. Now a serious attempt, in the panic over obesity, to remove fatty toppings by diktat.
Brits consume fewer calories and less sugar than we did decades ago. But a Government that seems to believe its role is to regulate our behaviour as if we are naughty children plans to bully us into eating even less.
It is in danger of being remembered as a nanny-state regime that meddled with our diet, taxed pleasure and convenience and invented new ways to make life more expensive for the low-paid.