Defining summer for MPs as Brexit chaos looms

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the East Kilbride News.

I wish the World Cup had still been on the telly on Monday night — it would have proven to be a welcome distraction from the chaos currently unfolding in the House of Commons.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit White Paper, decided at Chequers the other week, has already been amended by MPs following votes at Westminster.

So much for ‘this is the plan’.

As a result, it is looking increasingly likely that there could be a ‘no deal’ Brexit unless the UK Government and t he European Union can s omehow find a way through the complex maze of problems this issue is causing.

Such a s cenar i o would not come without negative consequences and it is time for the cabinet and the wider body of MPs to start levelling with the public as to what it all means in practice.

I’ve written before about how Brexit seems a remote battleground for politicians because, by and large, everything appears ‘normal’ in the lives of the members of the public. That will change, though. This summer’s parliamentary recess is perhaps the most important for decades as MPs will return at the start of September with the Brexit clock ticking.

Time is running out for an orderly B rex it and the UK Government’ s handling of the matter has been nothing short of appalling, to be honest.

Where will the true leadership come from? Who will put the interests of the UK before their own and that of their party? Who is going to stand up and point out what a no-deal Brexit has the potential to be like?

Some cold, hard realities need to be faced in these coming weeks. The future of the United Kingdom depends on it.