Almost everyone in Britain agrees that it is a pitiful and contemptible state of affairs
As a member of Their Lordships’ House, I have carefully canvassed a good many well-informed British friends about the astonishing sequence of political events in that country’s relations with the European Union to see if anything could be predicted from them.
May made one of the first of a cascade of horrible mistakes by calling an election, although she already had a clear majority in a young Parliament. She said she wanted a stronger hand to play in negotiations with Europe and instead limped in without a majority, dependent on the Democratic Unionist Party, the reasonably house-trained descendants of the party founded and led for 37 years by the fire-breathing anti-papist, The Reverend Ian Paisley.
May won this vote by the severely divided margin of 200 to 117, again, a substantially greater erosion than Chamberlain suffered in 1940, bringing in Winston Churchill as head of an all-party national unity government. But her proposals for altered association with the European Union were twice defeated in the House of Commons by wide margins. The U.K.
To add more gasoline to the fire, the leader of the opposition and likely prime minister if the government falls is a Marxist anti-Semite with no aptitudes to lead the country: Jeremy Corbyn. This assures that however riven the Conservatives may be, they will, as they have, lock arms to avoid an election and any chance of Corbyn slinking into Downing Street.
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