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The real reason why MPs are dead against no-deal

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 Melaniebrexit, customs union, No Deal

Another working day, another chance for MPs to try to reverse Brexit through forcing through the Commons a formula for remaining in the EU by pretending to deliver a form of the oxymoronic, deeply dishonest and cowardly “soft” Brexit. And Mrs May apparently intends to try once again to blackmail buckling Brexiteers into backing her Brexit-in-name-only-Remain-by-stealth deal – which as argued here is a one-way ticket back into the EU – on the false grounds that the alternative to that is no Brexit at all. The civil servant whistleblower “Caroline…

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A Remainer’s mind is changed. “We must leave, come hell or high water”

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 Melaniebrexit, No Deal, reader's comment

A few days ago, I posted here a few of the longer comments I’d been receiving from readers about the Brexit crisis. I’ve now received another impassioned cri de coeur – this time from someone who voted Remain – which I think is very much worth wider distribution. Please therefore read it here. Like many Brits, I am simply furious with the sheer contempt and ridicule being inflicted upon this country by its own elected officials. I won’t lie: I voted Remain in 2016 – even despite my previous desire…

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For the Brexit surrender monkeys, it’s groundhog day all over again

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 MelanieA50 extension, brexit, No Deal

Five days to go until the UK is bound by an act of parliament to leave the EU, and yet again Mrs May intends to try to force through her deal by threatening the Brexiteers with dire consequences unless they back it. As she is so fond of saying – even faced with a threatened attempt to remove her which flared in the Sunday papers and then fizzled out again – nothing has changed. Yup, it’s groundhog day all over again. Over the weekend a series of Brexiteers were summoned…

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As Whitehall systematically sabotages Brexit, civil servants blow the whistle and promote no-deal

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 Melaniebrexit, Caroline Bell, No Deal, Whitehall Remainers

I previously wrote here about “Caroline Bell”, who the Briefings for Brexit website says is a civil servant at the heart of preparations to leave the EU without a formal deal and whose identity it is protecting. S/he has listed the preparations now in place for no deal. The list, says BfB, shows that the civil service has prepared the country well to leave on a clean managed basis; “ Caroline Bell” says “it is simply a lie to suggest otherwise”. S/he says: “MPs and the public have been deliberately…

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Mrs May’s Chamberlain moment

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 Melaniebrexit, democracy, Irish backstop, No Deal

This morning, Theresa May was reported to be talking up as a breakthrough the concessions she has obtained from the EU on the Irish backstop, saying MPs should therefore vote tonight for her Brexit withdrawal deal. At time of writing, she is expected shortly to address parliament. The UK’s requirement was that it should never find itself bound by the backstop with no means of escape unless the EU gives it permission – which by definition, in the event of a breakdown in the future negotiations over the UK/EU relationship,…

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Why Martin Howe’s advice should be rejected

March 8, 2019 Melaniebrexit, Martin Howe, No Deal

Another week, another final-endgame-crunch-crisis-make-or-break-nailbiting-cliff-edge Brexit moment for Britain’s prime minister Theresa May. I fear more such moments are yet to come. As throughout this never-ending crisis, no-one knows what will happen by the end of the day let alone by March 29 when the UK is due to leave the EU regardless of whether or not the terms of its departure have been agreed with Brussels. What we can see is that even some of the so-called “hard” Brexiteers are having a distinct wobble. They seem to have been spooked…

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New episode in cliff-hanger, Stuffing the British over Brexit

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 Melaniebrexit, Mrs May, No Deal

There’s been much sound and fury over the latest twist in the tortuous and unbearable cliff-hanger, Stuffing the British People over Brexit, and no wonder. Theresa May yesterday performed a volte face by agreeing that, in the event of Parliament voting against her “renegotiated” withdrawal deal that she will put to the Commons by March 12, MPs will then be able to vote on whether they agree to the UK leaving with no deal and that this will not happen without their consent. If the Commons duly votes against no-deal,…

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The EU: an economic basket-case with the instincts of the mafia

February 3, 2019February 3, 2019 Melaniebrexit, eu, German economists, No Deal

The EU’s Brexit negotiators (who appear to believe that until this moment their knuckle-dusters have been concealed) clearly think that now’s the moment to take off the gloves. Faced with Theresa May asking them ever so nicely to re-open negotiations to get rid of that troublesome Irish backstop, they have not only said no. They are reportedly now doubling down on their intransigence in the belief that this will force the Brits to come crawling back on their knees. The Sunday Times reports (£): “There is the prospect of a…

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Any compromise would subvert the will of the people

January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 Melaniebrexit, eu, No Deal, Withdrawal agreement

Much has been made of a possible compromise on the Irish backstop. Even if the EU were to agree to this, however, Mrs May’s proposed deal remains a stinker. The Withdrawal Agreement would trap the UK with no exit unless the EU agreed. It would subordinate Britain’s defence and security structure to EU control and endanger British security ties with its main allies. It would continue to subordinate the country to rulings by the European Court of Justice. Above all, the UK would remain hostage to the EU during the…

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Banana republic coup in the mother of parliaments

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Melaniebrexit, Cooper, Laws, No Deal

The no-holds barred attempt to stop Brexit in its tracks by Remainer MPs who form a majority in the House of Commons is now taking the form (as I have previously warned) of a prospective coup by parliament against the people. MPs threw out Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU by an uprecedentedly massive majority. A as a result, legislation passed by parliament last year means that the UK will leave the EU on March 29 with no deal. Remainer MPs are determined to stop this by any means…