Theresa May’s Brexit delusions need to be challenged. But that task shouldn’t all be left to Brussels and DublinEnacting the will of the people turns out to be rather tricky when there are lots of different people with incompatible wills. That is a banal truth of democratic politics that Theresa May avoided for months and finally bumped into in Brussels this week.
Even after the opinions of millions who voted to stay in the EU were discounted,the chances of satisfying every one of the leavers’ preferences were nil. The future of Northern Ireland happens to be the current obstacle to progress, but it encapsulates the fundamental contradictions that characterise the whole enterprise. Tory Brexiteers insist on the freedom to ignore rules set in Brussels, or while denying that adherence to those rules is a condition of frictionless trade with the rest of Europe. May wants tall barriers to the movement of people,but none for the transfer of goods and services. The objective is borderless borders: a nonsense.
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Source: guardian.co.uk