Betrayed by a House of fools

BORIS Johnson’s Brexit deal was good enough for the World Bank, the most prestigious financial group.

The IMF also signalled its approval. And here, the bosses’ organisation the CBI – which in the past has been a cheerleader for Remain – said it was “something we could definitely work with”.

Poll after poll showed the majority of the British public wanted it. Indeed, one poll had a 66% approval rating.

And one newspaper – that has from day one greeted Brexit with the level of enthusiasm usually reserved for a bad case of piles – said it was “time to end the agony” and go for the deal.

Little wonder, then, that the majority of our tin-eared, selfobsessed, preening politicians opted to reject the Brexit deal that would have allowed this country to finally move on.

How many times have we heard, or seen, politicians saying they are acting in the best interests of the country? How bloody dare they! They have no comprehension of just how out of touch they are with the general public.

They don’t listen to us. Time after time they have let us know what they don’t want. But what exactly is it that they do want?

The grim truth is that it is a tapestry of self-interests and desires. The Scottish Nationalists want another independence referendum, the Lib-Dems are plain that they want to stay in the EU.

The Labour Party is riven and trying to appease their many voters who voted to Leave while openly supporting another referendum to try to embarrass the Government. And the DUP are staying true to their duplicitous selves.

The deal Boris Johnson has managed to cobble together is far from perfect, but it is pragmatic and the very fact it even came before the Commons to be voted on is no mean feat itself.

The EU had said there was no room for renegotiation. Johnson fought his way though all that negativity and put together a Withdrawal Agreement Bill that, for the first time in three-and-a-half years, won the support of the Commons.

Indeed, it had a 30-vote margin. Only this House of fools could sink the very same deal without trace by refusing to agree to a timetable of three days to work their way through it.

These MPs are paid a minimum of £77,000 a year, but they can’t put in some extra shifts to see if a deal can be passed. That is simply shameful.

How can there be any issue that hasn’t been debated to death already?

Remainer In Chief, the insufferably pompous and grotesquely supercilious Dominic Grieve, said last week the Government was “treating the House in an insulting way”.

If he wants to know how insulting feels, he should come and sit with the rest of us. The insults are beyond belief.

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