IS BREXIT DELAYED, BREXIT DENIED ?

The European Union has graciously granted the UK a stay of execution. Brexit will no longer occur on 29th March 2019, but might happen at some later date. Or it might not.

If MPs vote for Theresa May's withdrawal agreement next week, Brexit will be delayed until 22nd May; if they reject the agreement, then they have until 12th April to put forward some other plan that is acceptable to the EU. Given the concerted efforts to frustrate Brexit altogether, it seems most likely that MPs will reject the May 'deal' and we'll be landed with some proposal that may be acceptable to the EU and to the Remain lobby, but will be a kick in the teeth to the 17,400,000 people who voted to simply leave the EU. 

Currently, much is being made of a petition on the government's own website which has seen one seventh of that number sign up for Brexit to be cancelled. The media, in particular the BBC, has been awash with anti-Brexit campaigners while the voices speaking in favour of leaving the EU have been strangely few and far between. As I write this, Lucy Powell, a Labour Remainer and Corbyn supporter, is being interviewed on television; a few minutes ago, it was the turn of Hilary Benn on the radio. Before that, it was the Conservative's Nick Boles, talking as though he knew better than the rest of us what was in the best interests of the country, that being, of course, to stay tied to the EU's apron strings.

Yesterday, we had the unedifying site and sound of Anna Soubry being rude and almost offensive to Nigel Farage as she tried to drown him out on 'Politics Live'. Staying in the European Union, or remaining so closely aligned with it as to be no different, is portrayed as the only sensible option while those with a contrary view are treated as madmen, cabalists, extremists, anarchists or worse. Interestingly, all this invective comes almost exclusively from one side in the argument; the representatives of the Leave side have been largely calm and measured and have avoided throwing insults at their opponents.

A weak and divided government led by a weak Prime Minister. An opposition led by left wing dinosaurs who are still fighting the battles of the 1930s. A cabal from Scotland who have no interest in the United Kingdom but simply long for the day when they will be able to bestride the world stage on their own account, minnow-like. Worst of all, a Parliament of self-serving egotistical anti-democrats, far more interested in having things their way than in carrying out the Will of the People.

God Help Us !