BREXIT ON A KNIFE EDGE.

Theresa May must surely be one of the least competent Prime Ministers this country has ever had. In being so, she joins a sadly lengthy list of others who have risen to the top but ultimately proved to be incapable of doing the job. Is this not a perfect, if appalling, example of the Peter Principle in operation ?

Even over the last 70 years, the UK has suffered under the leadership of incompetents too many times - Theresa May joins Anthony Eden, Alec Douglas-Home, James Callaghan and Gordon Brown in being a Prime Minister who quite clearly is not up to the job. None of the others lasted very long in office and we can but hope that Mrs May is gone in the very near future as well.

Mrs May's return from Brussels a few months ago, figuratively waving her agreement at us, brought back thoughts of Neville Chamberlain's return from Munich. Chamberlain, yet another in that panoply of incompetents was a man completely out of his depth and utterly unable to comprehend the realities of life in 1930s Europe. Mrs May does not understand, and neither do many of her Parliamentary colleagues, the realities of life in 21st century Britain. 

The people voted to leave the EU. They did not vote for any 'kind' of Brexit, they voted for Brexit, full stop. They understood that leaving the EU meant leaving the customs' union and the single market, something which was made very clear by both sides in the argument at the time. They voted in the expectation that the government would act accordingly, not with an expectation that there would be years of political chicanery followed by delays and even calls for another referendum, dressed up as a 'peoples' vote' by some in order to avoid use of the 'r' word.

Now that Mrs May has written to EU representatives asking for Brexit to be delayed she has finally broken the solemn word given to the British people in 2016 and reiterated many times over the last 3 years. She is not fit to be our prime Minister and the government that she leads has failed in its duty to the people. At the same time, the opposition parties have done no better, using Brexit as a tool for their own political ends, and have equally ignored the referendum result.

Neither another referendum nor a general election will resolve this problem. Mrs May must go; the government, under a new Prime Minister, must carry through the commitment given to the British people in 2016 and ever since, deal or no deal. Members of Parliament, who have already voted in favour of leaving the EU on 29th March and enshrined that decision in law, must now comply with that law. 

Otherwise, democracy is dead and one wonders who will bother voting for anything in the future.

FORCES OF DARKNESS SEND DEMOCRACY TO DODO-LAND.

And so, Brexit is off, at least for the moment and quite possibly for good.

After what's been reported as a stormy meeting of the UK Cabinet yesterday, Prime Minister (though for how long ?) Theresa May is going to formally ask the European Union to postpone its exit from their nasty little club. Apparently she's going to ask for a 'short' extension, whatever 'short' might mean and however it may be interpreted by the EU.

There have been reports of huge unrest in the government as well as in the Conservative party at large. The EU has made it clear, yet again, that they propose doing nothing to help the situation, the UK Parliament has made it clear that they can't agree on anything but would much prefer Brexit to be cancelled altogether. Media pundits are rubbing their hands at the prospect of another 3 months, at least, of being able to pontificate and give us all the benefit of their wisdom, such as it is.

With elections for the European Parliament due in late May, things couldn't be much more confused and there's no sign that there'll be any clarity any time soon. It's been suggested that Leavers are happier than Remainers over this latest development as some believe that 'No Deal' is now back as a serious option, but isn't it more likely that a 'short' postponement will lead to a never-ending one ? Our 'representatives' in Parliament will be working overtime to ensure that they make the most of the extra weeks or months to muddy the water, to obfuscate and render any Brexit arrangement as meaningless as possible. 

It seems to me that the Forces of Darkness are well on the way to winning and Democracy in the UK is all but extinct, just like the Dodo.