Undermining Brexit

Last night the PM spoke to the 1922 backbenchers committee in which she asked its members not to vote for the HoL's amendments thus undermining her position in negotiations with the EU.

As has been previously stated, had May set out to sabotage Brexit, her actions would be no different to what she has done this last two years. She has appointed Brexiteers in key Brexit related posts, she had made speeches with arbatary red lines which further limited her options. She also agreed to a backstop position back in December, only realising now what that backstop means, and that in the EU's eyes, can't be time limited. May calls this unacceptable, but backing out in what was a formal agreement would look very bad in the eyes of other countries where a country's word is its bond.

Or not in UK's case.

No one has undermined Brexit more than the PM herself.

I am asked how does limiting or cancelling Brexit tie with the "will of the people". Well, as the Cabinet can't agree among themselves what Brexit means, how the hell can anyone state with any honesty as to what the referendum result means? It was only advisory, of course. And we live in a representative democracy, where we vote in Parliamentary elections once every five years, where they may, or may not act on their manifesto promises.

As DD said in 2012, referendums are a blunt instrument, and in this case giving a binary choice to a question that, in reality, had many different answers.

And the Government is using the Withdrawal Bill as a power grab, returning powers to it, and powers that cannot be challenged, fro the Eu and devolved assemblies.

And today both the Express and Sun have huge threatening headlines regarding what their owners see as the "will of the people": Ignore the Will of the People at your peril, screams the Express. Great Britain or Great Betrayal hammers the Sun.

And tomorrow the Electoral Commission publishes its final report in spending and other irregularities from the referendum two main Leave campaigns. It is clear that May may have been trying to end the HoC debate on the Lord's amendments before that report is published.

You really could not make this shit up.