Monday, April 1, 2019

May Turns Brexit Into Wrecks-It

Among the ones rejected are: leaving the EU without a deal; adding a permanent "Customs union" to May's deal, and adoption of a soft Brexit modeled on Norway's complicated quasi-membership in the EU. Others that were rejected include holding a second Brexit referendum in the UK and canceling the Article 50 notice that the UK is quitting the EU. The EU consented to move Brexit Day from 29 March 29 to April 12, presuming May's deal is passed by then.

If it isn't, Brexit Day will be May 22, supposedly avoiding the necessity of UK candidates running in the coming EU elections.

Why should they when Theresa May is willing to serve as the UK's chief javelin catcher until the Brexit mess is over?

The only sensible outcome for the UK is a no-deal Brexit.

If she did resign, it's very unlikely that the Conservative Party she supposedly leads would come up with a new leader before the May 22 Brexit date.

Its efforts have stymied any good option except a no-deal Brexit.

Eighteenth Century historian Edward Gibbon wrote that, "History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." When the history of Brexit is written - from the 2016 referendum until the end - it will fit Gibbon's axiom far too well.

https://spectator.org/may-turns-brexit-into-wrecks-it/

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