If only Remainer rabble would see the light like the Archbishop of Canterbury has
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has seen the light.
The left-wing, pro-Brussels, anti-No Deal prelate wants fellow Remainers to “stop whingeing” and accept the 2016 referendum.
It is a Damascene conversion for Dr Justin Welby.
Last week he was preparing to lead a “citizens’ forum” against a clean-break Brexit.
If only puce-faced boobies like Owen Jones, Stephen Fry and Hugh Grant would follow suit and stop throwing their rattles out of the pram.
Along with the raving loony Labour Party and Tory hypocrite Sir John Major, who should know better.
I used to think John Major was a well-intentioned cove, for all his failures as Prime Minister.
He was roasted for trying to scrap the Pound, signing the Maastricht blueprint for a federal Europe — and suspending Parliament in the same way he now condemns as “fundamentally unconstitutional”.
“Decent” Major emerges as a charlatan and hypocrite who is prepared to bring down a Tory PM struggling to deliver the will of the people — and replace it with a Marxist-led Labour rabble.
Along with Phil Hammond and Dominic Grieve, he is willing to inflict terminal damage on the same British constitution and wreck public trust in Parliamentary democracy.
It was Parliament whose MPs voted overwhelmingly for an In-Out referendum.
It was Parliament that voted for every step towards Brexit along the way.
DEFEATED RUMP
It was Parliament that three times rejected the only EU deal on offer.
And it was in Parliament, as Foreign Secretary in 2016, that Phil Hammond lectured MPs on the paramount right of voters to choose — whatever the result of the referendum, saying it would be decided “not [by] Whitehall bureaucrats, certainly not Brussels Eurocrats, not even by government ministers or parliamentarians in this chamber. The decision must be for the common sense of the British people.”
That decision was duly taken in the biggest single-issue democratic vote in British history.
Hammond has been fighting ever since to turn it on its head.
This is the real constitutional outrage. A defeated rump of Remainers, egged on by blatantly biased Commons Speaker John Bercow, is using every Parliamentary trick to destroy Brexit.
Some threaten to occupy Parliament until dragged out by police.
Left-wing class warriors will infuriate voters by blocking bridges and highways and stopping them getting to work.
John Major and meddling Gina Miller have launched a Supreme Court bid to block No Deal.
These are petulant tantrums. And they will fail.
There is no chance Brussels will budge on the backstop, says chief negotiator Michel Barnier. In which case we simply drift across the October 31 deadline and out of the EU forever.
There will be an election and Boris Johnson will win.
The Tories already lead Labour by 35-24 per cent in the polls. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party commands 14 per cent.
REPAIRING WRECKAGE
Once Britain leaves on October 31, Nigel will fold.
“The Brexit Party would be happy to make Boris a hero,” he says. In return, Farage deserves a peerage.
Added together, his votes would give Boris an 85-seat majority. In the actual campaign, with a vote-winning Budget and Boris in fully fired-up election mode, that could turn into a landslide.
At which point, we can wave good riddance to John Major, Ken Clarke, Michael Heseltine, Anna Soubry, Dom Grieve and Uncle Phil Hammond and all.
And get on with the job of repairing the wreckage they leave behind.
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SACKED Treasury aide Sonia Khan denies leaking confidential secret plans for a No Deal Brexit, but she was certainly “consorting with the enemy” in the office of former Chancellor Phil Hammond.
The question nobody has asked is why Chancellor Sajid Javid appointed her as his media adviser in the first place.
“Special advisers are a minister’s Praetorian Guard,” says one Cabinet figure. “They must be completely loyal. Why did anyone think she could be completely loyal to Hammond one minute and then completely loyal to Sajid the next?”
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