Friday 22 March 2019

Crunch time at Brexit

With a week on the clock, you cannot escape the at times hourly updates around "Brexit" as the tensions are ramped up several fold.
 I don't know anyone who isn't on edge over how the process that has taken 1,002 days seems to of achieved nothing, not one thing parliament has actually agreed on to take our leaving forward but only said what it is they don't wish to see.
In that respect Prime Minister May's frank comments in Wednesday's televised address to the nation make sense to me as much as they have annoyed the heck out of Members of Parliament.
However we voted in June 2016, most of us expected that vote to be respected and for M.P.'s to work toward a plan for leaving by agreement with the EU and then move toward settling questions around retaining good trading relations while being able to exercise our rights having left to make fresh agreements with other non EU countries.
This simply has not happened but moreover we are stuck in a major constitutional crisis about how parliamentary business is supposed to be run, a speaker who it is regarded is being partial in his decisions and a week to get an agreement passed unless an extension on the leaving date is granted that will come with terms from the EU.
If that isn't enough there is an implied threat the Prime Minister might even resign which would plunge the majority Conservatives into a leadership campaign that would take over three weeks and still leave the winner with the conundrum that is Brexit to deal with just the same.
It appears overnight EU leaders have agreed a delay to of a fortnight if Parliament doesn't agree to a deal and up to April 22nd if they do
I suspect many of us have had enough.

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