Theresa May to ask for three-month Brexit delay.
Only a three month extension? |
In a statement from number 10 prior to her departure to Europe for her meeting with EU leaders the Prime Minister Theresa May, confirmed that she will not be asking for a long extension and went on to state that "There is a case for giving Parliament a bit more time to agree a way forward, but the people of this country have been waiting nearly three years now.They are fed up with Parliament's failure to take a decision and the PM shares their frustration".
The interesting part of this statement and the completely hypocritical part is the suggestion that Theresa May shares the frustration of the British people in being fed up with Parliaments failure to take a decision on Brexit. The fact of the matter is that Parliament has delayed matters for almost three years yes, but over the past eighteen months, the one and only motive driving the Prime Ministers maniacal insistence on presenting the same motion for Parliament to consider has been the overwhelming necessity to maintain unity within the cabinet and the Conservative party in the country. Any suggestion that she acts in the "national interest" falls into meaningless hypocritical rhetoric when we consider that any alternative would undoubtedly result in the complete disintegration of the Conservative party, fragmenting into numerous factions and consigning the Tory party to political oblivion.
The Prime Minister has repeatedly used the "deadline date" as some sort of cudgel, with which to batter the Commons into submission and agree a "deal", proposed not in the "National Interest", but in the interest of Conservative party unity. A subterfuge which fools nobody, but reinforces the belief that the PM has nothing but contempt for Parliamentary democracy generally and the British people in particular. The arrogance of this Prime Minister extends to new dimensions when she reveals the intention to return to the Commons next week with yet a third iteration of the "deal", thus seeking to over rule the Speakers ruling and place herself with what remains of her splintered support, as the sole arbiter of what the country must do in order to implement Brexit.
A splintered cabinet |
Yes the people of this country "are fed up with Parliament's failure to take a decision", but they are even more fed up with Prime Minster May's arrogance and hypocrisy in refusal to act in the National Interest and continued insistence in placing party first and foremost to the total exclusion of what is right.
This country needs a general election and needs one now.
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