Brexit drama is like real-life soap opera

I USUALLY prepare an article a week in advance of having to submit it on the basis that I take my inspiration from the latest world events and how they affect UK plc.

This has been one of those rare occasions when knowing what has happened in the last 14 days and what is yet to happen, I know everything I am commenting on will be over taken by new events.

“Do or Die” or “Dead in a Ditch” are the book titles where the “Big Boss” called Boris is the lead who uses a secret weapon called the “Proroguing Missile”. Who could have predicted the events that have just unfolded in Parliament? Could this also be the basis for a real-life soap opera based on the political intrigue, with the audience being the EU and the rest of the world?

Staying with the book analogy, the main theme is based around rivalries of three families who are vying for control. The Tory family have “clipped” their critics, tantamount to a “mob hit”, and cleared out decent by removing the whip from 21 MPs when they least expected it.

Whilst the other fractious family known as Labour are trying to coalesce around their “Don” Corbyn and the smaller SNP family cannot be ignored as they are using the adage of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” having had a “sit-down” with the

Labour family.

The power struggle within the Labour family is still rumbling on beneath the surface meaning that they are not ready to take on the Torys in the “shoot-out” known as the election. Will the Labour family continue to play for time with the SNP under their new alliance or will it break down if something more unexpected happens and we find that the proroguing missile was not the only new weapon in Boris’ arsenal? I will leave it to you to speculate whether these other weapons could be the “Big Boss” stepping down and allowing the Don to seek the extension from the EU knowing that because the Labour family is divided the Don may be “whacked”, not by his family but by the “gangbusters” known as the electorate when the election inevitably happens.

Colin Rodrigues is head of the Corporate Team at Hawkins Hatton