Posted on 11/11/2018 4:55:04 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson called again on Sunday for U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to change course on Brexit, accusing her of forcing through a deal to keep the country locked in the EU's customs union in a "total surrender."
It was the latest call by Johnson, a key figurehead in Britain's campaign to leave the European Union, for May to drop her so-called Chequers plans in favour of negotiating a clean break with the bloc and securing a free trade deal similar to the one the EU recently sealed with Canada.
His comments come days after his brother, fellow Conservative lawmaker Jo Johnson, resigned as a transport minister over Brexit.
Boris Johnson said he agreed with his brother that the Brexit talks were "the biggest failure of U.K. statecraft since Suez" when Britain lost control of the waterway in the 1950s.
"I really can't believe it but this government seems to be on the verge of total surrender," he wrote in his weekly column in the Telegraph newspaper.
"I want you to savour the full horror of this capitulation ... we are on the verge of signing up for something even worse than the current constitutional position. These are the terms that might be enforced on a colony."
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God save the UK.
Justine Greening says Theresa May is ‘handing power to EU’ in Brexit deal
Theresa May was accused last night by a former cabinet colleague of planning the “biggest giveaway of sovereignty in modern times”, as she faced a potentially devastating pincer movement from Tory remainers and leavers condemning her Brexit plans.
‘total betrayal’
https://www.businessinsider.de/dup-accuses-theresa-may-of-total-betrayal-over-brexit-backstop-2018-11?r=US&IR=T
“Theresa May is a member of the European Swamp.”
Sort of a McCain of the UK.
Interesting symmetry now between the US and the Continent:
1. Massive invasion by modernity haters
2. Total refusal of globalists to accede to the will of the voters
BOTH places suffering in those 2 ways, now.
... These are the terms that might be enforced on a colony."https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/how-tiny-moldova-s-brexit-grudge-could-cost-u-k-1-7-trillion
To paraphrase Josef Stalin,
“How many divisions does the European Union have”?
The Brits surrendered long ago.
Realities crushing fantasiesLost in the sky coloured oils of Merrie Land
Time to kick her ass out and get a new PM.
That would be relatively easy to do (especially compared to replacing a US president). No election required. In fact May first became PM — then called an election.
A lot of misreading of May’s character here. The proposed ‘Chequers’ deal has little if anything to do with her personal wishes. She’s in a hopelessly weak position. To get anything through she has to present something which is the only possible compromise acceptable to her deeply divided Cabinet, her ditto Party, the DUP whose support she has to have to win a vote, and eventually Parliament; and at the same time have some chance of being accepted by the EU negotiators. The result has been the Chequers deal. She (or her staff) probably couldn’t have come up with anything better which would come near to satisfying those contradictory objectives. Pretty well everyone, on all sides of the question, now thinks it won’t work. Cabinet and other ministers on opposite sides on Brexit (eg Boris Johnson and his brother) have both resigned because of it.
A no-deal hard Brexit is therefore now looking more and more likely. If you can tell anything about May from her previous career, it’s that she sticks to any task doggedly. At present her task is to deliver Brexit, any kind of Brexit, because that was the majority wish in the referendum. Her personal wishes don’t come into it.
Whatever the present mess is, it’s not some devious ruse by May to get Brexit reversed. Hence her opposition not only to a second referendum but even to the Commons vote on the deal, which she’s been forced to accept.
They love her in Europe.
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