Please comment.
Honestly, at this point I’m not sure what to say. That’s why I haven’t been active in these discussions. I have a really great knowledge of British constitutional law and history but what is happening now is so unprecedented in many ways, I don’t feel all that confident in making any predictions, or analysis.
I disagree with a lot of people here that May has somehow sabotaged Brexit deliberately. Yes, she was a Remainer, but I honestly think she has, as Prime Minister, tried to deliver the best deal she could come up with given the number of different things she’s had to try and balance and she’s failed. She’s responsible for that - but I have to say, my real anger such as it is is directed at people like Michael Gove and Boris Johnson who wouldn’t stand up to run for Prime Minister when Cameron resigned. When the strongest supporters of Brexit won’t even try take the top job, it’s not surprising that the Conservatives wound up lead by somebody who wasn’t capable of delivering a good outcome.
I hope Brexit proceeds - no deal looks like the most likely way that’s going to happen now - but I can see it being stopped at this point, which I would have thought virtually impossible two years ago. Part of the reason for that is the baffling decision by the Court that Britain can more unilaterally stop the Article 50 process - that seems utterly at odds with the wording of Article 50 that all EU nations have signed - but that is what the court has ruled, and there’s basically no appeal (which sums up so much of why I don’t like the idea of the UK being in the EU - a court that can simply ignore exactly what is written within the ‘constitutional documents’ of the organisation of which it is part is one of the biggest problems I have with the EU).