Theresa May’s life is about to get even tougher after her confidence vote wasted yet another day before Brexit
The Prime Minister has a tightrope to walk in deciding whether to stick to her 'global Britain' commitment or sign up to a permanent Customs Union and split the Tories forever
IT is hard to imagine, but life is about to get even tougher for Theresa May.
Yes, she survived her confidence vote, after a mind-bogglingly pointless seven-hour Commons debate that merely wasted another day before Brexit.
But now she has a tightrope to walk.
It is said the PM could be tempted to bin her commitment to “global Britain” and sign up to a permanent Customs Union with the EU to win Labour support.
That would upend everything she, and The Sun, have argued since 2016 about trading with the wider world.
But we’re the least of her worries.
Such a shift would alienate scores of Brexit-backing MPs, split the Tories forever and could guarantee the Corbyn Government sane people want to avoid.
It’s all very well panicky Cabinet Remainers begging her to soften Brexit. At what cost? Marxism will cause vastly more harm to Britain than No Deal.
Time for some Tories to wake up.
Blame game
IT is staggering to hear Remainer pundits inside their Remainer bubble blame Brexit-backing politicians for the current chaos.
A Remainer PM with her Remainer Chancellor and Remainer friends entrusted a Remainer civil servant to negotiate Brexit.
For show, three successive Leavers were made Brexit Secretary, then sidelined. Two quit in protest.
Remain ultras working for a billionaire Remainer’s campaign to rerun the referendum openly conspired with the EU to destroy our negotiating position.
Remainer politicians, campaigners and journalists outnumbered Brexiters four to one on virtually all TV news shows, heaping bile on Brexit.
And Mrs May’s deal would still have lost on Tuesday even if every single Leaver had backed it — because a Tory Remainer hardcore prefer the horrific chaos of a second referendum.
Leave MPs aren’t the “hardliners” in this battle, unless it is hardline to fulfil a democratic mandate as promised.
This fiasco is not of their making.
Kick in ballots
YOU’D have thought from social media that there was a national clamour for a second referendum. There isn’t.
Even the number of MPs backing it so far is utterly disproportionate to the noise they make. But it will grow.
And we are fascinated to know what Brexit option they would graciously allow Leavers to vote for. If any.
It couldn’t be No Deal, if Remainer MPs intend to make that “illegal”.
Nor could it be Mrs May’s deal. How could MPs overwhelmingly condemn that, then make it the sole Leave choice?
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A second referendum before the first result is enacted would be a grotesque enough assault on our democracy.
Wait till you see how the “people’s vote” cult frame the question on the ballot paper.