Momentum grows for a People’s Vote
The House of Commons is in chaos this week over Brexit.
And the Conservative Party is focusing inwardly upon how they can topple their Prime Minister rather than sorting out the mess that they have created.
Many Tories want to start over again, now at the last lap, with a Brexiter at the helm.
This would surely trigger a hard Brexit scenario, ignoring the warning flags of untold damage to our economic stability, business interests, services and medicines and people’s jobs and livelihoods.
Theresa May eventually unveiled her European Union Withdrawal Agreement deal last week in Parliament to the disdain of her own party and many across the House of Commons.
Since this time, the withdrawal agreement and cabinet responsibility has basically been shredded and lies in tatters.
Further to this, we have had the Labour Party hoping above hope for a General Election at this time of national crisis, whilst offering no practical solutions on Brexit or even a principled position on the way forward.
Time is running out if the EU and the House of Commons are to enter the final stages and to conclude by the end of March 2019.
There is requirement for a meaningful vote of MPs in the House of Commons but further resignations from government ministers this week demonstrate just how weak the Prime Minister’s hand is.
She is boxed in by calls from the Remain and hardline Brexiters, alongside the demands of the DUP.
The Prime Minister is ploughing ahead regardless because her deal is the only one on the table but she appears to be in denial about the likelihood of it surviving and commanding a majority in the House of Commons.
Brexit has until this time been largely an abstract idea or ideal to many – but now that reality is becoming clear, people are becoming more vocal and involved.
Momentum is growing towards a People’s Vote on the final deal and whether whatever deal is determined by MPs is ‘good enough’ to protect our industry, jobs and livelihoods.
If Brexit and the way ahead cannot be determined via Parliament, then it may invariably be back to the people to decide.
Within our constituency, I have been taking soundings once again from local constituents on the state of Brexit and the local issues affecting them.
There is a great anxiety about the current state of affairs, mismanagement of the Brexit negotiations and the lack of responsibility demonstrated by those ministers abandoning their positions and walking away.
There is also real concern about the impact of any hard Brexit upon families, our jobs and standards of living.
Our constituency and constituents have worked far too hard to be plunged into economic crisis and this is the responsibility that I prioritise each week at Westminster.
Meanwhile, locally, I have also been extremely proud in the past few weeks to represent our constituency as your MP at Remembrance services, ensuring that House of Commons wreaths are laid as a mark of respect and honour for all who fought so bravely, and who sacrificed, during conflict across all of the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow area.
If the way ahead cannot be determined via Parliament, then it may invariably be back to the people to decide...