As
I listened this afternoon to Theresa May’s statement at Westminster – and to the
following parliamentary debate – I could only conclude that the Prime Minister
has no concrete alternative plan to the existing draft Brexit Deal.
Moreover,
she is not credible when she sustains that “the talks are at a crucial state”. There
are no real talks taking place. And there is no plan to that in the days to
come.
The
Prime Minister is just trying to gain time. Not that she expects a miracle to
happen in the next couple of weeks. No. Her hope is that in the end the British
Parliament will approve the Deal, with some cosmetics added to it, but
basically the same document that she has agreed with the EU last November.
To
believe in an approval because the MPs will have their backs against the wall
is a very risky bet. Also, it’s distinctly unwise. In the end, it might bring
all of us closer to a No Deal Brexit. Such possible outcome would have deeply
negative consequences both to the UK and the EU. Only open fools, like David
Davis, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg, can believe that a No Deal situation
is a good option for the UK.
It’s
time to bring the Prime Minister back to earth and stop the delaying tactics.
As
a footnote, it’s quite shocking to see that idiotic belief about the positives
of a No Deal being militantly supported by some mainstream British media. For
instance, by The Telegraph, the well-known right-wing daily newspaper. This
media behaviour is clearly the result of a mixture of chauvinist madness with
commercial opportunism – trying to sell newsprint paper to the retrograde
Conservatives that constitute a good share of the British market. It’s abundantly
irresponsible.
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