by John Brian Shannon

The elephant in the room that you fail to see, Theresa May, is that the EU wants a People’s Vote Labour Government and your party is bleeding MP’s at a rate of four per month. Do the math!

It’s clearly in the EU’s best interest to delay Brexit in the hope that Theresa May’s party will continue losing four Conservative MP’s/month until they no longer command a majority in the UK House of Commons whereupon Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would contrive a Vote of No Confidence in the government thereby triggering a General Election.

And the spectacle of almost 3-years of Brexit negotiations that haven’t gone anywhere isn’t doing the public mood any good. Therefore, in a General Election, Labour could capture some 325-seats and the Conservative Party would go down in flames.

Jeremy Corbyn (almost) can’t lose now that other opposition parties — including the new Independent Group freshly buoyed with former Conservative Party MP’s — could combine forces to bring down the government. (And it’s conceivable that more Conservative defections could still occur)

Don’t look now, but the sharks are circling, Theresa — and it’s you they’re circling.

If you don’t think Jeremy Corbyn is capable of pulling-off such an upset you’ve seriously underestimated his capabilities!

It doesn’t matter if they don’t agree policy. What matters is that they could work together on an ABM platform (ABM = Anyone But May) to bring down the government.

Just What the EU Wants: Another ‘People’s Vote’

And (obviously) the most direct path to cancelling Brexit is via an Article 50 extension to provide enough time for Remainers, for Remain-fixated media types, for the EU, and for the Labour Party to ‘play’ or ‘game’ the Brexit narrative until they get the result they want — which is a cancelled Brexit and a cap-in-hand UK asking to be readmitted to the EU because it wasn’t competent enough to arrange a viable exit from the European Union.

Jeremy Corbyn is on record calling for a so-called ‘People’s Vote’ to further confirm or deny the Brexit that UK citizens voted for. (Notwithstanding that there have already been two ‘People’s Votes’ — the June 23, 2016 referendum and the June 8, 2017 UK General Election where every party that won seats, ran on a pro-Brexit platform)

But Theresa May ‘played’ the Brexit card for too long and will now get burned unless she acts quickly to regain lost momentum.

Just as the frustration level with the (almost 3-year-long) Brexit process is about to peak, Jeremy Corbyn, his Labour Party, and the EU, appear to have played their cards exceptionally well in calling for another EU referendum at this moment and the chance for a Labour election landslide is high should Theresa May try to extend the Article 50 Brexit date beyond March 29, 2019.

You couldn’t make this up if you tried!

BEFORE You Lose the Next Election, Theresa, Consider These Points:

If You:

1. …continue to try to thrash your amended Withdrawal Agreement and your beautifully-written-but-legally-meaningless Political Declaration through the House of Commons you’ll bleed evermore MP’s and hand the government to Jeremy Corbyn and his party before you realize what’s happened.
2. ….seek to extend Article 50, you might lose even more MP’s to the Independent Group and Jeremy Corbyn will become Prime Minister before you know it.
3. …prevent an Article 50 extension vote from occurring tomorrow and instead drop in an EFTA + UK control of immigration option for MP’s to vote on as an indicative proposition, you’ll change the entire Brexit conversation in a positive way! And goodness knows the resolution might actually pass in the House of Commons with a healthy majority. Whereupon, you’d be on the fast-track to Brexit (as the EU has previously approved the EFTA + UK control of immigration option) and your personal life/life satisfaction would dramatically improve and your government could get back to governing instead of tying itself in knots.
4. …resign your position as Prime Minister and hand the reins of power to Micheal Gove — he’ll get Brexit done and make it look easy — and he’ll do it without losing MP’s. And you could take-up the position of the Leader of the House of Commons (Andrea Leadsom’s present position) while Andrea Leadsom could move to the House of Lords where she’ll be graciously welcomed to finish out her political career.
5. …cancel Brexit altogether, at this late date(!) the Conservative Party might cease to exist in the future and such is the present mood of the public that you might lose your seat in Maidenhead and the chance to become a member of the House of Lords at some future date.

Like it or not, those are your choices, Theresa May.

There aren’t any other viable choices, so you’ve got to choose between those five. And you’ve got to decide before 10:00am to allow the Speaker of the House of Commons enough time to be properly informed about what’s planned for the day.

‘Leading from behind’ (or being behind the curve) isn’t an option for you any longer.

It’s time to stick your neck out and make a decision; One that costs you the fewest MP defections and changes the entire, sorry, and disjointed Brexit narrative, thereby putting some power back into UK politics which is looking uncharacteristically weak in recent months.

Bonus Video

Video courtesy of Channel 4 News

Rise, and rise again, until lambs become lions, Theresa May!