Sunday Express

Time we got rid of this zombie Parliament

- By Martin Daubney BREXIT MEP

‘HORROR SHOW’: Martin Daubney AT just before 3pm yesterday, did anybody else feel a minor earthquake, as 17.4 million Britons head-butted their desks or kicked their tellies?

Once again, it was Brexit Groundhog Day as another vote – this time the Letwin amendment – meant just 16 MPS votes rendered the British public’s vote meaningles­s. Our zombie Parliament proved it is utterly unfit for purpose.

In Parliament Square, the People’svote crowd cheered. Onstage, Remainers Anna Soubry, Jess Phillips and Caroline Lucas celebrated like England had won the Women’sworld Cup.

This should not be happening. It makes an absolute mockery of British politics. We are now a global laughing stock.

Understand­ably, our nation is now consumed by Brexit Fatigue Syndrome. We are all desperate to get Brexit done.

One good thing that may come of this delay is that when MPS get more time to analyse the detail of Boris’s deal they will see that it isn’t Brexit.

The UK would still have to pay at least £39billion before any new EU trade deal and our Parliament will defer to the European Court of Justice.we cannot forge new trade deals with the US or anybody else if it offers us a competitiv­e advantage over the EU – the whole point of being an independen­t nation.

And we cannot cut our corporate tax to make the UK more attractive in case it undercuts the EU. Militarily, we will not be able to act independen­tly.

Our fishermen have been sold down the river, thanks to a continuati­on of the Common Fisheries Policy and future “shared quotas”.

The UK will be saddled with €500billion (£429billion) liabilitie­s from the European Investment Bank, but with no access to past or future profits

The list of horrors is as long as Jean-claude Juncker’s wine bill.

The only way to reset this horror show is a general election. Only when our 75 per cent Remain Parliament represents our 52 per cent Leave society can we fix this mess.the Brexit Party is ready to spearhead that fight.

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