People are bored with mistakes,
NOT
BREXIT
They have been called
Bobs-"Bored of Brexit". Leaving aside the poor grammar, they are a group that
Theresa May seeks to recruit to push her EU deal through the Commons. She has
appealed to these Bobs, who are apparently fed up with the constant political
arguments over Brexit and just want it over and done with. She wants them to put
pressure on their MPs to vote for the
WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT
when it comes before
the House next month.
To say the
least, the Prime Minister has her work cut out. During another marathon session
in the Commons yesterday when she reported back on the outcome of the talks on
Sunday, an hour had passed before a single MP from either side of the Chamber
backed her.
Over the next two
weeks, leading to the crucial vote, Mrs May is planning to tour the country to
SELL HER HER DEAL TO
THE COUNTRY
to sell her deal to
the public over the heads of MPs.
"The overwhelming view is
just get on with it," she said
BUT
WHY IS THAT?
If people
are bored with what is a crucial matter for the country's future, it is because
Brexit has become an enervating, pettifogging, procedural mess largely as
a result of the way the Prime Minister has conducted the issue from the
moment she lost her majority in last year's election.
She has rarely shown any belief in
the concept of
BREXIT
-unsurprisingly, perhaps,, since she campaigned for
REMAIN.
As a consequence,
the whole process has been handled like an embarrassment to get it out of the
way, rather than an opportunity to move forward optimistically as a
INDEPENDENT NATION
Instead
of being a springboard to a better place, it has turned into a technocratic
NIGHTMARE.
The
language of backstops, Norway 2, Canada-plus, meaningful votes, hard borders and
the rest is guaranteed to
PUT PEOPLE OFF
and leave them
bemused?
IN the Commons
yesterday, Mrs May did say she believed the UK could be better off outside the
EU.
"Our future is in
our hands,"
she added.
But why has she left
it so late to extol the advantages of
LEAVING
while failing to
prepare for doing so
WITHOUT A DEAL IF NECESSARY?
She insists that
unless her deal is accepted the UK will crash out or stay in the EU. Yet judging
by yesterday's exchanges, it will not get through. As is apparent from the
postbag received by our
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
people are not bored
with
BREXIT.
THEY
ARE APPALLED AT THE WAY IT HAS BEEN HANDLED.
BREXIT.
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Tuesday 27 November 2018
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