Analysis: It’s a national humiliation, pretty much everyone agrees. But it’s also mesmerizing. Like a train wreck on a loop
LONDON — Your average Brit will tell you they’re sick and tired of Brexit, that the country has had enough, it’s knackered. But clearly, they have not had nearly enough. Britain is obsessed with Brexit.
A recent poll by YouGov found that 64 per cent of the public had “Brexit fatigue,” while only 20 per cent said they didn’t. In ways once unimaginable, the public now knows who Chris Grayling is. The hapless transport minister paid a fortune to a company to run ferries if Britain crashes out of the European Union with no deal, only to discover the company had no, umm, actual ferries.
Organizers said turnout for the “Put It to the People” march in London on Saturday exceeded one million, making it one of the biggest demonstrations Britain has seen. Ever.Helen Farr, 41, a university lecturer, traveled from Southampton with her two small children, ages 1 and 5, to be at the march. This was non-essential travel on packed trains with a child in diapers.
An overexcited foreign correspondent in Brussels told the BBC this was “the biggest EU story since the fall of the Berlin wall.”But in London, the press revealed that the Ministry of Defense has set up an operations room in “a bunker” at its main Whitehall building to deal with a potential no-deal Brexit, under the banner of “Operation Redfold.
Finance Minister Phillip Hammond advised Sky News, “Changing the prime minister wouldn’t help us. Changing the party in government wouldn’t help us. We’ve got to address the question of what type of Brexit is acceptable to Parliament, what type of way forward Parliament can agree on, so we can can avoid what would be an economic catastrophe of a no-deal exit.
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