After another series of quite frankly ridiculous votes in the House of Commons on Thursday 14th March, where any prospect of exploring quite what ideas MP's actually do want, as opposed to what they don't want was voted down by mavericks in the two main political parties. We are again faced with Mrs May bringing back her failed and unchanged deal for the third time next week. The only sensible outcome of the evening was that Parliament voted to delay leaving the EU on 29th March, and rightly so, as nothing is in place and otherwise we face what we are told will be a catastrophic no-deal departure on WTO rules which would further damage our economy, business and industry, and lead to jobs being lost and higher prices in the shops. In other words, we would all be worse off and austerity would continue. I say all, except that a very wealthy minority, including a number of prominent Brexiteers would be laughing all the way to the bank. Now we have to wait and see how the EU27 will respond. One veto would sink any possibility of delay, and a certain, probably treasonous former UKIP MEP, has been doing his best amongst right wing 'friends' in Europe and with Mr Trump in the US to block the Government's request. Some people are saying that a delay is a betrayal of the 2016 Referendum result, but I say the only betrayal has been the lies used by Vote Leave to win the Referendum, and to steal the futures of our younger generation. The 'Baby Boomer' generation, not content to be the richest group of senior citizens for many years are at the same time denying the younger generations their future opportunities in the open and free society which we currently enjoy. Some even want to bring back Imperial weights and measures, forgetting that we have to trade with a world that uses Metric scales. So if our departure is delayed, there is at least a chance that we will win time to examine other options to Mrs May's deal or no-deal, and our future prosperity as a Country depends on it.
There is no Golden Goose the other side of Brexit, as some would have you believe, only the prospect of becoming a 'vassal state' to Mr Trump's America with its lower food hygiene standards and its desire to privatise our NHS. A majority of people in Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to remain in the EU and if their concerns and those of the millions of others who voted remain in England and Wales are ignored, our 'precious Union' deserves to be broken up as the Irish conduct a Border Poll and the Scots vote to become independent and remain in the EU. Neither outcome beyond the realm of possibility.
All the parties need to work together now for the good of the Country, which means compromise and dropping red lines. This is what I believe most people want now.
There is no Golden Goose the other side of Brexit, as some would have you believe, only the prospect of becoming a 'vassal state' to Mr Trump's America with its lower food hygiene standards and its desire to privatise our NHS. A majority of people in Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to remain in the EU and if their concerns and those of the millions of others who voted remain in England and Wales are ignored, our 'precious Union' deserves to be broken up as the Irish conduct a Border Poll and the Scots vote to become independent and remain in the EU. Neither outcome beyond the realm of possibility.
All the parties need to work together now for the good of the Country, which means compromise and dropping red lines. This is what I believe most people want now.
