The nonsensical Leave backers have left Brexit in the lurch
To implement a successful exit from the European Union, surely it is pointing out the obvious by suggesting the most ardent Leave campaigners step up and do just that. I’m talking about three in particular who, instead, have dramatically walked from any negotiations that Theresa May is arduously trying to deliver.
Boris Johnson, David Davis and Nigel Farage sit back whilst the UK descends into turmoil in probably our most troubling political climate in modern history. The trio were the most outspoken and vehement supporters of the Vote Leave vision. They even fed the electorate a bunch of fabrications that they then refuted after the result came in. But where are they now, I ask? Where are they as May faces a political ambush that she only inherited from her predecessor?
I am not a May voter, nor in any way a conservative. However, I strongly sympathise with May and her plights. Her creation of the Chequers proposal has seen her fight for a soft EU exit in a slight attempt to alleviate the polarisation that has followed on from the Brexit vote. If she rallied behind a hard Brexit, she fears alienating the 48% (almost half!) of voters who vouched for remain. As journalist Sarah Vine put it so matter-of-fact, the waving of willies from May’s male colleagues has meant the already exhaustive task has become tremendously debilitating for the country.
Lest we forget that Farage, leader of a party who’s whole platform was based on leaving Europe, has gone silent on the issue. Instead he sits as the pantomime devil on the shoulder of America’s alt-right phenomenon that helped Donald Trump become their leader. Second of all, the useless Davis resigned from his Cabinet position as Brexit secretary to sit by the sidelines and throw hard-Brexit-plagued eggs at his leader. Last, but certainly no where near least, the self-indulgent and belligerent Johnson staged a dramatic exit with a subsequent press conference to severe ties with the government.
The three musketeers who fought so vociferously for a “Leave Means Leave” strategy have failed all voters who wished the same. Due to this, a no-deal scenario has become frighteningly more likely and the blind government are leading the blind country off a clifftop, with directions courtesy of Michel Barnier.
Instead of attacking May, why not laud her for her courage to stick this out. She takes the heat and walks straight into the fire. She voted Remain and is doing her ultimate best, as prime minister, to listen to frustrations rather than sow the inherently contentious discord.
Brexit is a mess, there is no doubt. But thanks to a certain three; we are grappling with it on our own.
