This week, appropriately beginning 1st April, Brexit descended into farce after merely being a two-year comedy of errors.
Most were not and fought tooth and nail to stop Brexit or water it down to the point of it losing all purpose.
May went for the full Brexit: outside the customs union and the single market, which meant she was relying totally on Conservative and DUP votes to get her deal through.
The EU then slipped into the Withdrawal Agreement a poison pill: the Irish Backstop, a temporary membership of the Customs Union until a free trade deal was negotiated, so as to prevent a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The votes against it by the DUP and hardline Brexiteers, when added to the Remainer and partisan votes of the Labour Party ensured crushing defeats every time May presented it.
The only logical solution would have been to threaten the Labour Party with a no deal Brexit to make them come on board, since the Withdrawal Agreement itself had nothing in it that the Labour Party could not support.
Will they grant a long extension in the hope that Brexit fires will burn out and a second referendum will cancel it?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-06/brexit-endgame
Most were not and fought tooth and nail to stop Brexit or water it down to the point of it losing all purpose.
May went for the full Brexit: outside the customs union and the single market, which meant she was relying totally on Conservative and DUP votes to get her deal through.
The EU then slipped into the Withdrawal Agreement a poison pill: the Irish Backstop, a temporary membership of the Customs Union until a free trade deal was negotiated, so as to prevent a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The votes against it by the DUP and hardline Brexiteers, when added to the Remainer and partisan votes of the Labour Party ensured crushing defeats every time May presented it.
The only logical solution would have been to threaten the Labour Party with a no deal Brexit to make them come on board, since the Withdrawal Agreement itself had nothing in it that the Labour Party could not support.
Will they grant a long extension in the hope that Brexit fires will burn out and a second referendum will cancel it?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-06/brexit-endgame
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