Hundreds of businesses bankrupt and thousands of people out of work is a "price worth paying" for Brexit. Says Jeremy Hunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/30/jeremy-hunt-i-would-tell-bust-businesses-no-deal-brexit-was-worth-it

Jeremy Hunt would tell bankrupt firms their sacrifice was worth it.

As many people reading this post will already know, I voted to leave at the referendum. What I did not do, was vote to leave at any price. Over recent months, I have shifted to the view that we actually have no reasonable option, other than to remain as part of the EU, albeit that the EU is in need of radical reform and we should be part of that reform process. The question of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is insoluble if we leave the European Union and to leave without a "deal" the so called "Hard Brexit" would devastate industry and jobs in this country for decades to come. The loss of working peoples rights, the free movement of labour and the access to the free market economy of the EU or even the loss of rights for EU citizens living in this country is not a price that any right thinking person would even contemplate.

It is therefore staggering that one of the Conservative party leadership candidates should state that he would willingly "tell people whose companies went bust after a no-deal Brexit that their sacrifice had been necessary." Jeremy Hunt would see hundreds of businesses go to the wall with hundreds if not thousand of people thrown onto the scrap heap of unemployment, and dismiss their hardships as a "price worth paying".

Although Boris Johnson has not, thus far, used the same phraseology as Hunt, it is clear from his previous mutterings on the question of Brexit that he holds very similar views. Both candidates therefore, and the only choices on the ballot paper, are prepared to see this country reduced to second class status with high unemployment and many firms out of business. Due to the vagaries of the British political system, 100,000 Conservative party members will take a decision that will effect the lives of everyone in this country, for perhaps decades to come.

Both candidates are committed to a hard Brexit on October 31st and one of them will be the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He will be totally lacking in any legitimacy having not presented himself to the 46.8 million people at a general election. Prime Minister he may well be called, but not in my name.

It therefore is essential that the Labour party distance itself from this insanity and provide those who have always been in the remain camp, plus those who voted leave at the referendum but are now be faced with the reality of becoming redundant in this madcap world of Johnson or Hunt, with the clear alternative that as a "Soft Brexit" now appears to be extinct, we must press for a peoples vote or even revocation of Article 50 and finally end the lunacy that Hunt and Johnson are determined to inflict upon us. We must also press for a General election to change the mathematics of the House of Commons to end the perils that these two deranged maniacs seem determined to plunge us into.
We must change the mathematics as we must change the government and install a Labour government for the many not for the few.