Kevin Maguire: People’s vote is only way out of Brexit logjam
In an unsettled country with a deadlocked Parliament, another referendum is also Theresa May’s best Brexit option.
Her Tory enemies and the Labour leadership will race to pass votes of no confidence in a humiliated Prime Minister after the now inevitable crushing defeat in the House of Commons on December 11.
By rights she should resign, accepting she’s failed miserably by uniting a majority
of MPs against her worst of all worlds.
Instead, Downing Street desperately spins the ailing PM as a Tyson Fury mini-me in high heels and haute couture, a PM who gets knocked down then gets up again.
Yet each ministerial resignation and study costing the Brexit plan’s expensive disaster paints a picture of a clueless Noel Edmonds loser, Deluded of Downing Street significantly less popular in this political jungle than she foolishly believes.
To ask the nation to decide between her Brexit draft deal or remaining in the European Union would be bold, the only way to end the stalemate.
We know most MPs reject the no-deal catastrophe of obsessive Mogglodytes wishing to reinvent the 18th century. A week tomorrow we’ll discover by how many they oppose May’s scam to sell employment, wages, prosperity, security and sovereignty for £39billion. What we need to decide is what happens next when the clock’s ticking towards 11pm on Friday, March 29, 2019.
May’s publicly set herself against a so-called people’s vote though we all recall she changed her mind about a general election last year.
Today there’s no consensus in Parliament for a referendum UKIP Brextremist Nigel Farage could consider the “unfinished business” he predicted had the close result in 2016 gone 52-48 the other way.
Cabinet ministers are acknowledging the possibility including Jeremy Wright, Michael Gove and a Jeremy Hunt who two years ago toyed with advocating it when calculating a challenge to May for the Tory tiara.
Labour’s heading that way too so the only people who fear the democracy of another referendum should be Brextremists liars petrified they couldn’t pull on another giant con job.
The direction of travel’s clear without any guarantee the destination will be reached.
But with Parliament deadlocked, a fresh question before Christmas will be: If not a referendum, then what?
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