Leaver MPs must fight and not cave in — No Deal Brexit is not national suicide
The EU is in huge trouble if we rule out No Deal and MPs that know Brexit must happen need to wake up right now - or the public will never forgive them
NO Deal is not national suicide. Ruling it out is. Here’s why:
It’s not just that opting to Remain instead of Leave as the default on March 29 betrays the referendum result.
It’s that we will have fallen into Brussels’ trap and lost their game of chicken.
The surest route out of all this chaos is to win the support of the DUP and Tory Brexiteers for Theresa May’s deal.
It has other flaws, but the Irish backstop is fatal — dividing Britain from Northern Ireland and crushing our ambitions for independent global trade.
Our dismal Chancellor Philip Hammond, a politician with zero drive, optimism or negotiating acumen, feebly moans it is a “waste of time” demanding from Brussels a time-limit on the backstop or an exit from it.
That is typical defeatism from a man who has done everything to nullify Brexit and minimise vital No Deal preparations.
It is very far from a waste of time.
The EU now have every incentive to make their deal with Mrs May work — but only if No Deal is our fallback.
Why? Because the eurozone is in huge trouble.
Germany is almost in recession. Its giant firms admit they are “staring into the abyss” of a No Deal. Ireland would be severely hit.
If we kill that possibility off, if we tell them that we’ll effectively Remain by default, that’s it: We lose.
That’s why Remainers, from Nick Boles to Hammond himself, are so keen on it.
Corbyn is too because he is paralysed by indecision and just needs something to say.
But the Cabinet and those MPs, Tory and Labour, who know Brexit must happen need to wake up right now.
They are being played like fiddles by Brussels, aided by Parliament’s Remainers and a Commons Speaker gone rogue.
They must not cave in. They must fight — or the public will never forgive them.
Blockhead MPs
IS anyone seriously looking for a “consensus” on Brexit?
What concessions have any opposition leaders offered Theresa May? They all just demand a second referendum and/or No Deal “taken off the table”.
Yes, the Government is sticking to its guns too. But there’s a difference:
It is backed by the moral force of a national referendum it has a duty to honour.
Berc of week
IN case there was any doubt about the nauseating Remain bias of Commons Speaker John Bercow, his new accolade extinguishes it.
The continental Press have named the pompous little toad “European of the Week”.
How proud he must be.
Let’s hope his local Tories speed up their plans to oust him as an MP.
He is not the gatekeeper of our democracy. He violates it.