May’s dog days as Three Brexiteers ready for coup
MPs give her warning on EU stance
HARDLINE Tories have warned Theresa May she faces a coup if she presses on with plans for a soft Brexit.
Tory MPs say they are ready to depose the Prime Minister and install a “dream team” of three prominent Brexiteers if she opts to keep us in a customs union.
The rebels want Boris Johnson elected as leader with Michael Gove as his deputy and Jacob Rees-Mogg as Chancellor.
Mr Johnson is reported to have told colleagues he is ready for a leadership fight and said the “cavalry is coming”.
Mrs May is struggling to keep her party together as she prepares for crunch meetings with Cabinet ministers this week to hammer out an agreed negotiating position.
The Tories are split on whether to stay in some form of customs union or go for a clean Brexit, severing all ties with the EU.
One Brexiteer said: “The PM needs to understand... if she persists with this customs union plan, we can get rid of her and we have the numbers to ensure one of us takes over.”
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David Davis meet the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier in No10 today, where they will be pressed to set out demands for a new trade deal.
She found at least one friend yesterday when she and husband Philip played with a border collie named Blitz after going to church in her Maidenhead constituency.
And Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: “I have a surprise for the Brexiteers, which is the committee that meets to help make these decisions is more united than they think.”
Eloise Todd, of anti-Brexit organisation Best for Britain, said the Brexit “dream team” would be a “recurring nightmare”. She said: “Boris only cares about Boris and Jacob ReesMogg is an ideological zealot that would ruin Britain.”
Meanwhile, Labour MP Chuka Umunna urged his party’s leadership to drop opposition to staying in the single market and customs union. He said: “It is the only way of resolving the Irish border issue.”
WIKIE the captive killer whale’s blowhole speaks more sense than increasingly desperate Conservative Brextremists.
The talking orca also displays significantly greater dignity than a pack of reckless Tory orcs spouting dafter and dafter rubbish, after evidence confirmed they are peddling a ruinously expensive nightmare.
Quitting the EU’s single market and customs union would be economically suicidal, so all the exposed Brextremists have left are porkies and hate.
Thankfully, the fibs and deceit which stole a narrow win in 2016 are sinking in 2018. But terrified Theresa May’s failure to confront the mindless militants in her party is cowardice, not leadership.
When a majority of MPs across all parties in Parliament favour a decent deal for Britain, and public support grows for a decisive referendum on our nation’s future, a Prime Minister worthy of the great office of state would challenge her party’s fanatics. May’s spinelessness is a fatal weakness that will eventually finish her when there is no job in the country that Empire zealot Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t prepared to destroy in pursuit of his ideological obsessions.
In her memoirs, she will bitterly regret letting 60 or so fanatics in a shadowy European Research Group, financed by taxpayer allowances, act like a party within a party.
It is often difficult to find a good word to say about Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Chancellor Philip Hammond but at least this pair occasionally stand up to the Brextremist fundamentalists, as does gutsy backbencher Anna Soubry. Brextremist Minister Steve Baker’s grovelling apology for lying to MPs should have resulted in this ludicrously self-important toxic figure, who combines stupidity and arrogance, being sacked. Instead, the Downing Street machine valued blind belief ahead of common sense, by rapping Justice Minister Phillip Lee over the knuckles for arguing that Britain’s position in Europe must be guided by facts and not dogma. Whitehall impact assessments that reveal lost economic growth translate into lower living standards and less money for the NHS. Tories are asking the wrong question if they think the answer is the Brextremist Three Stooges of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg. The trio would be a gift to Labour. Jeremy Corbyn and Wikie would both be laughing.