Remainer MPs are betraying Britain’s democratic choice
WHAT on earth are senior Cabinet members doing? By trying to block any chance of a no-deal Brexit, they are denying the UK and our next prime minister the one weapon that would make the EU take us seriously in our next round of negotiations.
No one wants to see Parliament prorogued, but if Remainer MPs continue to betray the referendum result, it leaves the Government with little choice.
Chancellor Philip Hammond abstained in this week’s vote against suspending Parliament, thus giving his support to Remainers. He justified his defiance of the Tory party whip by saying that he fears a no-deal Brexit will result in economic chaos. But if the Government doesn’t deliver Brexit on October 31, with or without a deal, the Tory party will collapse as thousands of despairing voters desert them. This could then allow a Marxist Labour government to gain power and cause far greater damage.
Hammond is apparently the first chancellor to defy a threeline whip without being sacked. Not content with that, he is even threatening to bring down the next prime minister with a vote of no confidence if no-deal is not postponed. The strange reasoning of these Tory rebels puts our country in much more danger than Brexit ever could.
YET, sanctimoniously, Dominic Grieve MP and his fanatical proEU gang don’t see the contradiction in their argument. They say that suspending Parliament to pursue Brexit would be an enormous blow to democracy.
But it was MPs who voted overwhelmingly to hand that choice to us in a referendum, then by a wide margin chose to enact the result with Article 50.
At the last general election, both main parties again pledged to support Brexit. They can’t have it both ways. Theresa May did her best to find a compromise
but was rejected three times. When Parliament was asked to select an option, it failed to make a decisive choice.
You can’t keep kicking the can down the road. The British people and business owners have run out of patience. If Parliament is the problem, then it should be shut and our next prime minister should bring an end to this farce by forcing through Brexit, deal or no-deal.
As revealed in a documentary this week, the aim of the EU is to drag out talks for as long as possible hoping we will all give up. EU pit-bull Martin Selmayr suggested at secret talks in 2018 that Brexit be put on ice for five years in order to give time for Brussels bureaucrats to reform the failing super state.
“Let’s see how the dust settles,” he said, “and let’s talk about whether we can come to a new deal for Europe.”
Sure, you can believe that if you want. The dreadful realisation is that our Remainer MPs are complicit in this delaying process, preferring to ally themselves with foreign powers than backing the choice of their own citizens. That is surely a bigger threat to democracy than proroguing Parliament?
The truth is that Brexit endangers the whole European project and chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier wants to see us punished for daring to leave the EU bloc. Arrogantly, he said this week the UK would have to “face the consequence” of no-deal. Clearly, the EU would rather initiate a trade war and damage the interests of their own exporters than allow us to leave. If ever proof was needed of the political nature of this clash, then that is it.The EU is not about trade but control.
Unsurprisingly on the same day as the Brexit blocking vote we had the Office for Budget Responsibility issuing another Project Fear report, promising a no-deal recession, falling sterling, plunging house prices. How many times have we heard this? Yet our post-referendum economy continues to grow, unemployment is at a record low, wages are rising. You can only cry wolf so many times.
Thank God for the Brexit Party and the pressure it has put on the Tories. It is because Tory leader front-runner Boris Johnson understands the need for delivering Brexit with no more delays that Remainers are getting ever more desperate.
IWELCOME the spectacle of Remain MPs being dragged out of a prorogued Parliament they no longer deserve to sit in.They are our servants and must deliver the will of the people.
Their refusal to do this threatens civil society in our country and must no longer be allowed to foster discord.
The point of democracy is that whether you like it or not, you abide by the decision of the majority. It is most remarkable that the people who seem to least understand this principle are many of our MPs. Who would have thought it?