It’s time to face reality, we must vote for May’s deal or we’ll get no Brexit at all
TODAY we will be voting on the single biggest issue facing the country for a generation – the Government’s deal to deliver Brexit.
The deal on the table respects the result of the referendum by taking back control of our laws, borders and money.
MPs have the opportunity to back a deal that delivers Brexit and ensures we can prosper outside of the EU.
And yet there is the prospect that Parliament blocks this deal today, putting us at risk of no Brexit at all.
Day after day there are fresh plots by MPs to wrest control of Brexit from the Government, to delay or reverse Brexit altogether. So it’s time to face reality. If Parliament rejects the deal it would lead to grave uncertainty with Parliament paralysed between those who want a no deal Brexit or the risk of no Brexit at all. Divides
Jeremy Corbyn will abandon his 30 years of opposition to the EU and take whatever path is easiest for him within his own party, in all likelihood ripping up his promise to respect the referendum result.
This weekend he failed five times to say what he would actually do on Brexit – quite extraordinary given he called for a General Election over Brexit.
And Corbyn confirmed he would delay Brexit by extending Article 50, and kept the option of Labour backing a second referendum on the table.
For the first time in our history we risk failing to implement the outcome of a referendum and letting the British people down.
It would plunge the public’s trust in politicians to new lows, and reopen divides across the country.
But this is also a fundamental issue of importance for the Conservative Party.
We were all elected on a manifesto pledge to deliver on the instruction of the British people to leave the EU.
If we fail in this task, the voters would see that we had the opportunity to deliver on their vote and chose not to.
In the chaos that would follow, no voters are going to remember or care for arguments over the backstop.
The reputation of our party, and our democracy is on the line.
The Conservative Party has always been a party of pragmatism, responsibility, and common sense decision-making in the national interest.
We must face reality. There is only one deal on the table. It delivers Brexit and ends free movement and vast payments to the EU.
If parliamentarians want to honour the referendum result – they must back the Government’s deal today.