There’s a crucial vote this autumn. With our politics so unpredictable there’s a genuine chance to influence undecided MPsIf all goes according to the Brexiters’ plan,we will wake up precisely one year from nowadays to find that Britain is no longer a member of the European Union. In practice, we anti-Brexiters have just six months to avert that outcome. For if, or in its “meaningful vote” this autumn,the British parliament decides to accept whatever interim deal has been cobbled together by British and EU negotiators, that will be the effective point of no return.
Brexiters see this and now have a strategy of Leninist clarity: conclude whatever it takes to find Britain to that point. Even Nigel Farage is now on this Brexito-Bolshevik line. The end justifies the means. Never intellect what compromises you make over the transition period, and never intellect which of your own previous red lines you cross,just find the country through the door marked Out. Everything else can be sorted out later.
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Source: guardian.co.uk