Could life ever be sane again?
RIGHT-WING poster boy Morrissey could soon be rewriting his classic tune Panic, thanks to the North East’s very own Anne-marie Trevelyan.
Instead of Panic on the street of London, Nigel Farage fan Moz could be writing about Panic on the streets of Berwick.
It follows comments by the Northumberland town’s Tory MP on the BBC’S Politics Live show about how she believed her constituents would react if Brexit was delayed by two years.
“My constituents would literally be rioting on the streets if we said ‘don’t worry we’re going to be doing absolutely nothing for another two years.’”
What the people of Berwick thought about their MP describing them as revolting could be quite a talking point the next time she is out canvassing for their support.
Trevelyan later said she was not inciting the people of Berwick to revolt, but her use of the word ‘literally’ inferred she actually believed that would come to pass if Brexit were delayed and might have sowed a seed in the mind of a few people. And that is looking ever likely to happen as the smart money is now on Brexit being put back.
Frankly, it needs to be as it has got so complicated the government is now renegotiating stuff it had insisted on in the first place.
Take the backstop which will see EU customs rules will be extended across the whole of the UK for a ‘temporary’ period to avoid the return of a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
I don’t know if I’m imagining it, but wasn’t the backstop the UK’S idea, the details of which May’s team are now insisting aren’t good enough and imploring the EU to help them come up with a better version of it. And am I imagining that last December the Prime Minister went before Parliament with what she said was the best possible deal for Britain, hailing it as resounding victory and one that could not be bettered?
On Friday she was in Grimsby appealing to the EU to be a bit more flexible and improve still further this unimprovable deal. No wonder the EU is confused.
It is, theoretically, less than three weeks until we officially leave Europe. The chances of that happening are getting more remote, as May seemed to accept during her Grimsby speech.
If her deal isn’t approved when it comes up for the latest meaningful vote in Parliament this week, Brexit could be suspended or abandoned altogether.
Pitchforks and flaming torches are literally selling out in Berwick as I speak at the prospect of it. Possibly.