Anyone who wants to know why so many people voted to leave the European Union need only take note of the way in which this egregious organisation has behaved over the last 2 years.
The so-called negotiations over Brexit have been nothing of the sort; all that's happened is that officials of the EU have done their best to frustrate the Will of the UK's electorate by finding ways to make effective negotiation impossible. Everything has been done according to the EU's 'rules', not that any actual rules existed before the EU invented them just in time for discussions to begin. The invention of a problem around the question of the Irish border, followed by an effective refusal to accept any of the solutions offered, was nothing more nor less than a mechanism to prevent Brexit. In time-honoured fashion, the EU has done everything possible to create a situation from which it hopes that the UK will either simply forget about leaving or will hold another referendum, one that will produce the 'Right' answer.
Despite many weeks of effort to find a way around the opposition to Mrs May's original 'deal', the EU has remained utterly intransigent. It will not re-open the 'Withdrawal Agreement', the 'Irish Backstop' is immutable and it is up to the UK to find a solution. Even in the last couple of days, EU officials have 'urged the UK to table fresh proposals' to break the impasse. That proposals have been put forward, in bucket loads, and all roundly rejected, is ignored; the EU holds all the Aces and continues to play them.
Why our government hasn't been stronger from the outset is a matter which can be debated for ever, but it now finds itself caught between an intransigent European Union and a Remain focused Parliament. There seems almost no chance of any meaningful advance in the discussions with Barnier, Juncker, Tusk et al, and so Parliament will be faced with either voting to accept the original 'deal' or voting to delay, or stop, Brexit. There has been much talk about the UK agreeing to a customs' union arrangement, something which would be anathema to Brexiteers as it would effectively keep the UK tied to the EU and unable to trade on its own terms. Labour wants the UK to tie itself to EU employment legislation and many continue to demand a second referendum on the most spurious of grounds.
'Project Fear' has swung into full operation, again, in recent days with scare stories from the car industry, NHS, police and others hitting the headlines. 'No Deal' would be so catastrophic, claim those involved, that it must be avoided at all cost. Fine. Let's avoid. Let's tell the EU, loud and clear, that either they agree to changes to the Irish Backstop or 'No Deal' it will be. They are every bit as worried about 'No Deal' as are the frightened bunnies in Westminster and, if they are made to believe that 'No Deal' is a real prospect, they'll soon have second thoughts.
The problem is that there are too many in Westminster who simply don't have the stomach for a proper fight. The lily-livered, liberal elite are far too scared of losing the benefits they've accrued over the years to risk even the slightest possibility of losing them. These people have no belief in the UK and no thought for the world of the future; they have no love for democracy just a love for the status quo. They hate the prospect of change and have nothing in common with those who made the UK the world power that it still is.
More shame on them.
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