A majority of the country wants neither to leave the EU nor remain but rather hopes by some miracle to do both at the same time
Extricating a member-state from a legislative union would be fiendishly difficult under the best of circumstances — with a thumping majority, a clear plan and an accommodating negotiating partner. But with a majority of 52 per cent, no plan and a partner, in the European Union, that was determined to make an example of Britain? Chaos was the best-case scenario.
The process instead has been to develop a plan on the fly by means of an approximately nine-way game of chicken — between Prime Minister Theresa May, the Leave and Remain factions within her Conservative party, the Ulster loyalists in the Democratic Unionist Party , the leader of the Labour Party, its Leave and Remain factions, and the Speaker of the House.
In two attempts to pass the deal through Parliament, May’s government went down to two of the largest defeats in British political history. You would think that would finish both her and it. Yet not only does she remain prime minister , but she seems determined to try a third time. To Remainers, she pretends that the alternative is no deal; to Leavers, no Brexit.
Is there any ray of hope amid this gloom? Yes, there is. It is the emergence of Parliament, not only as a place of robust criticism of the government’s handling of the negotiations — the refusal of MPs, even of the prime minister’s party, to be whipped or blackmailed into submission is in stark contrast to our own Parliament’s supinity — but as the seat of a possible solution. In a remarkable departure, Parliament voted Monday night to seize control of the process from the government.
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