Brexit battle lines drawn in Parliament as Tories support democracy — and Labour bids to take a flamethrower to EU referendum
BATTLE lines are drawn. The Tories will see Brexit through. Labour will help destroy it.
Yvette Cooper’s amendment to kill No Deal and “delay” our departure for months is a blatant ruse to wreck it.
Her angry Labour colleague Caroline Flint, a former Remainer who unlike Cooper is doing the right thing by HER Leave-voting constituency, is sure of it.
But Labour’s leadership now plans to back it... and it may well pass.
They are committed, too, to surrendering to Brussels over a permanent customs union — destroying Brexit’s economic case, as Remainers want. For good measure they may even support a second referendum which could destroy Brexit as well as the country’s stability.
That’s Corbyn and McDonnell’s gambit: abandon and betray their Leave voters to win over metropolitan Remainers. The Tories must instead do their duty by the 17.4million majority.
They know No Deal represents vital leverage to convince the EU to fix the fatal flaw in the agreement on the table.
And every day Brussels is weakening.
NO DEAL IS THE ONLY OUTCOME
If that deal still fails in Parliament, No Deal is the ONLY outcome that respects the referendum result.
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s idea to suspend Parliament till after Brexit day is a nuclear option. So is telling the Queen not to sign off backbench amendments.
But the rogue Speaker Bercow and his sneaky Remainer ally Dominic Grieve have already torn up Parliament’s rules to suit themselves. Theresa May should not meekly roll over to them.
No one knows now who will prevail.
But we DO know which party supports Brexit and our democracy — and which will take a flamethrower to both.
Wrong, suckers
The barbs at James Dyson are typical of Remainers who missed the point of Brexit.
It comforts them to think of Leavers as insular Little Englanders. Most in fact just wanted more sovereignty, including powers to trade with the wider world.
The Sun is a huge supporter of Global Britain. It is why we don’t mind our new blue passports being printed in France.
Dyson does just four per cent of his business here. Moving his HQ to Singapore gives him easier access to faster-growing Far East markets, affects only two senior staff and makes no difference to his taxes or employees in the UK.
Shame on the idiot politicians who took cheap shots at this British global success.
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