Hard-moral Tories absorb met every attempt to soften the blow of leaving the EU with a more extreme stance. Their to-do list simply reads: end everythingIn an ideal world,I wouldn’t be thinking about Brexit. There are other things, more gripping, and more urgent,more concrete, more important: crises in the prison service, and in higher education; a fresh massacre in Syria; a world out there in urgent need of the full force of the creativity and action of which we are all capable. Yet this “process” (process my arse; it never proceeds) halts any other commerce. We are trapped in this hellscape of middle-aged men,formless bilge about sovereignty vying with rabid fantasies of deregulation to see which can arrive out on top as everything of any meaning or value slides to the bottom.
Just when you think the worst of it is total immobilisation in the path of an oncoming train, the European Research Group reveals its hand: 62 hard-Brexit MPs want to show the train whos boss. The text of their letter to the PM was belligerent yet nebulous, and like a toxic cloud. But the subtext was pin sharp. There are more than enough names on this letter to force a leadership contest. May isn’t just a zombie leader; she’s their zombie.
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Source: guardian.co.uk