Following months of argy bargy over the 'type' of Brexit that Theresa May's government is going to negotiate, Mrs May has made the decision to dissolve parliament and to hold a General Election. Good for her.
Ever since the referendum in June of last year those who didn't like the outcome have made it clear that they will do anything they can to frustrate the process of leaving the European Union. Ghoulish figures from the past, such as Tony Blair, Paddy Ashdown, Nick Clegg and others, have popped up to try to create mayhem; Nicola Sturgeon has used the situation to demand yet another Scottish independence referendum and there have been calls for a reappraisal of the division of Ireland. An utterly spurious notion of there being options of 'hard Brexit' or 'soft Brexit' has been invented, a notion which is nothing more than a political mechanism contrived to create confusion and division.
When Mrs May said "Brexit means Brexit" she was stating the obvious and trying to make clear that there was no 'hard' or 'soft' option; when one leaves a club, one leaves and that's that. What happens thereafter is a matter for negotiation and, again, Mrs May has made it abundantly clear that she wants to seek the best possible post-Brexit arrangement for both the UK and EU. Unfortunately, Mrs May's clarity has failed to halt the march of those determined to try to prevent the UK from leaving the club and she has been left with only one option, that of attempting to strengthen her position in Parliament by seeking a new mandate from the British people.
Mrs May has said that she did not plan or want to take this course of action but, after careful consideration, she decided that it was the only real option open to her. Some are saying that she has made a 'u-turn' and shown that she is dishonest, untrustworthy and simply taking advantage of the disarray of other parties. While there can be no doubt about the shambles in which the Labour Party finds itself, I don't believe that Mrs May has been anything other than honest in her words and actions. In as far as any politician can be trusted, I believe that Mrs May is one of the better ones; compared with the self-serving, arrogant, deceitful and downright slimy behaviour of some of her predecessors, she is undoubtedly one of the 'good guys'.
When the election results are known on 9th June, we will hopefully have banished the powers of darkness once and for all, and Mrs May will be able to carry out the Will of the people, as expressed in last year's referendum, without further manufactured confusion, interference and delay.
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