Theresa May’s Brexit deal hasn’t got a cat in hell’s chance of getting through Parliament, it’s time for the well-meaning bungler to go
Unless the Tories change leader, change tack and make Brexit a success, they are doomed to defeat whenever an election is held
THAT’S it, folks. The deal is sealed. Theresa May has sold us down the Irish Sea.
EU leaders beamed as the PM signed away UK sovereignty and put our fate as an independent trading nation in their gloating hands.
We will do as we are told for as long as they choose, and cough up a £40billion ransom for the privilege.
That bill could easily double as we lose our £5billion rebate and continue pouring taxpayers’ cash into the crooked EU budget.
But hold your horses.
In the real trading world, the last hard yards of negotiation begin only after a deal is signed.
This botched plot still has to get through Parliament.
Right now there isn’t a cat in hell’s chance.
Theresa May faces near-certain defeat next month when she offers MPs a “meaningful vote”.
The EU will be told to think again.
But not by this Prime Minister.
Theresa May must go . . . and quickly.
Well-meaning, dutiful and stubborn though she is, Mrs May has bungled every step of this agonising Brexit process, surrendering to EU bullies and betraying the trust of 17.4million voters.
Yesterday’s deal is riddled with traps, weasel words and loopholes, leaving us at the mercy of all 27 member states who think they have a score to settle on fishing rights or Gibraltar.
Thanks to Mrs M, the world’s fifth-largest economy, one of the strongest military powers and a bastion of international diplomacy is the object of global pity and scorn.
Great Britain, the only country in Europe never to be conquered or occupied in a thousand years, has meekly surrendered as a vassal state in the EU empire.
American, Commonwealth and friendly European allies shake their heads in dismay as we shrivel into irrelevance before their eyes.
Aussie ex-High Commissioner Alexander Downer bewails the abject fate of “the Old Country”.
“The world has been turned on its head,” he mourns.
“The mother of democracies risks becoming a colony of the EU.”
Italy’s La Stampa newspaper accuses Mrs May of delivering “a resounding victory for the EU over Her Majesty’s subjects”.
Even arch-Remainer Tony Blair slams her treaty as “an artifice based on a misguided political fix I promise you we will all regret”.
Or, as ex-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnston pithily put it: “A polished turd”.
Downing Street clamped new electrodes on Project Fear with warnings of economic mayhem as Mrs May wrote a begging letter to voters.
In her plea for support was a warning that Britain faces a much bigger threat than Brussels in the shape of Jeremy Corbyn.
Yet it was Mrs May, along with dumbbell ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband, who created the Corbyn monster in the first place.
It was her catastrophic election fiasco that projected him to cult status, destroyed her Commons majority and surrendered the whip hand in negotiations to Brussels.
Thanks to her paralysed premiership, polls now show voters turning sympathetically to Corbyn’s deceitful promise of utopia under caring, sharing Marxist Momentum Labour.
The idea that Britain will vote Labour unless we accept her deal is fantasy.
The precise opposite is the case.
Unless the Tories change leader, change tack and make Brexit a success, they are doomed to defeat whenever an election is held.
This cobbled-together bodge simply puts a sticking plaster over a suppurating wound.
It will turn dangerously gangrenous as the consequences become clear.
Why would the 17.4million suckers who voted Out in 2016 and put their faith in Theresa May to deliver Brexit ever trust the Tories again?
I certainly wouldn’t.
Downing Street last week mocked Brexiteers led by Jacob Rees-Mogg as a modern-day “Dad’s Army” when they failed to rally 48 Tory MPs against Mrs May’s leadership.
Now the PM has given Captain Mainwaring the last laugh.
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If Parliament rejects this disgraceful deal, she has no honourable choice but to resign.
If not, this “bloody difficult woman” must be shown the door.
Then Britain can tell Brussels: No Deal really is better than her Bad Deal.
Brightness in Brexit
THERE was a flicker of good news in last week’s Brexit shambles.
Chancellor Phil Hammond has threatened to lead a Gang Of Five Remoaners out of Cabinet if Britain goes for a No Deal Brexit.
He misses the point that he will no longer be Chancellor if MPs reject Mrs May’s deal and she is forced to quit as Prime Minister.
The other bright spot was the revelation that grumpy Tory John Hayes has been handed a knighthood in return for supporting Mrs May’s lost-cause deal with Brussels.
“Sir” John will join Sir Loin, the champion of the butcher’s trade, as a prize cut.