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Day 1000 of Theresa May’s premiership & Still No Brexit!
1000 days have passed since Theresa May MP was appointed UK Prime Minister by her Conservative Party in the wake of former PM David Cameron’s departure from politics, and subsequent to his resignation, Theresa May triggered an election for June 8, 2017 — which the Conservatives won — but with a reduced number of seats in the House of Commons.
I think anytime we give someone 1000-days to accomplish a task (Brexit, in this case) and they can’t or won’t fulfil their promises, we must conclude that the person in question never had their heart in delivering on their promises, or that they’re too incompetent to deliver on them.
(Britain and its allies defeated Nazi Germany in 2044-days, by way of comparison)
And frankly, I don’t care whether Theresa May didn’t deliver Brexit because she wasn’t serious about it in the first place, or whether she’s too incompetent to deliver it, or whether she didn’t deliver it because she hates the price of coffee — she’s got to go!
There’s no excuse good enough to keep someone in a job whose mandate was to deliver Brexit for Britons and who subsequently failed in that project for more than 1000-days.
Theresa May has failed Britons. It’s time for someone else in the Conservative Party to take the reins and deliver Brexit at the earliest possible date, or failing that rather low bar, deliver Brexit anytime prior to the next election. And if they can’t deliver on their oft-repeated Brexit promises (a major policy in their party manifesto) then they don’t deserve to be the government and voters should vote Labour into government at the next regularly scheduled election.
Theresa May’s desperation to stay in the job and continue to flog her quite obviously dead in the water Withdrawal Agreement / Political Declaration / Joint Instrument / BINO Brexit is looking a bit unseemly these days — and the next step beyond ‘unseemly’ is that her entire premiership begins to look like a ‘disaster’ retroactively from Day-1.
And that would be a shame, because apart from not delivering Brexit, and having a tin ear, and a bit of weird dancing, she’s done a pretty good job.
But the point is; She was hired on as The Brexit Prime Minister and now, at Day-1000 of her premiership, she’s failed to deliver.
I for one, am not willing to countenance another 1000-days of economic uncertainty, nor 1000-more days of Theresa May pretending to deliver Brexit without actually delivering it, nor another 1000-days of political paralysis throughout the European hemisphere. Nor am I willing to countenance another week of this needless turmoil. And neither should anyone else, IMHO.
Leave now, Theresa, with your pride intact — before your good work on things like the economy, on energy, on the NHS, and Universal Credit — gets lost in the maelstrom of your party tossing you from the PM’s chair.
Send us a postcard from the House of Lords where you’ll surely end up and where you deserve to be; But your time on the Brexit file must end. Three years of economic uncertainty is ENOUGH!
Theresa May Files Another Request to Prolong the Economic Uncertainty
Each Brexit extension increases the economic uncertainty for industry on both sides of the English Channel, yet Theresa May keeps asking for more of them.
‘Round and ’round and ’round she goes,
Where she’ll stop, nobody knows!
UK citizens voted to Leave the EU on June 23, 2016 and now, almost 3-years later, not only has the March 29, 2019 official Brexit date been missed, the subsequent April 12, 2019 Brexit date looks likely to be missed, and now UK Prime Minister Theresa May is asking for yet another extension until June 30th.
If anyone doesn’t believe that Theresa May intends to ask for another Brexit extension beyond June 30, 2019 (she’ll probably ask for that additional extension about a week before June 30th) and probably another one after that(!) you’re horribly naive
If we let her, this will go on until the year 2050, or whenever it is that she will expire and leave her post. Unless somebody stops her, this will be your life, Europeans!
It’s been 1016-days since the UK referendum to Leave the EU and for 993 of those days Theresa May has been the British Prime Minister. And every single day for the past 1000+days has been increasing in economic uncertainty on both sides of the English Channel — wholly on account of a UK government that has dithered and doddled on delivering the will of The People.
That’s what you get for hiring a ‘Remainer’ Prime Minister, I suppose.
‘But she promised!’ you say.
‘Yes, we understand.’ we say.
At the end of that daily conversation, nothing will have changed. Day after day, month after month, year after year.
It’s becoming clear that Theresa the Remainer intends to delay Brexit until everyone gets sick of it and ‘Remain’ wins. And democracy will have lost.
The People voted to Leave the EU. Anything less than carrying out the will of The People is complete BS. And the UK Conservative Party must inform the Prime Minister of that in no uncertain terms, and if she doesn’t agree 100% on all of it, they need to fire her. ASAP.
Three years of economic uncertainty is ENOUGH!
Now We’re Getting Somewhere! Brexit is as Easy as Motions; A, B, or H
British MP’s will vote this week on an array of MP’s private member bills to help funnel Parliament toward some kind of Brexit harmony.
In the next few days British MP’s will be asked to vote on a number of motions to help the UK government gauge the level of support for each potential pathway forward and perhaps begin to align their policies with the winning motions.
The government isn’t obligated to act on winning or losing motions, but it does give them some indication as to where policy advisors and policymakers on the government side might concentrate their efforts.
The following three excerpts from a BBC website article published April 1, 2019 seem to make the best sense, which is why I’ve posted them for your convenience.
A link to the full BBC.com article from which these excerpts were taken can be found at the bottom of this page.
Motion A: Unilateral right of exit from backstop
Proposer: John Baron, Conservative
This proposal aims to commit the UK to leave the EU on 22 May with an amendment to Prime Minister Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement. That would allow the UK to exit the so-called Irish backstop whenever it wants, without the EU’s permission.
The backstop is an insurance policy designed to keep an open border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic “under all circumstances”, if the UK and EU do not manage to agree a permanent trade relationship in time.
Many MPs fear that it could mean the UK is tied to EU rules for years, while the Democratic Unionist Party has voted against it because it would mean Northern Ireland was treated differently from the rest of the UK.
This is a new motion, which was not considered by MPs on 27 March. But the EU has said that the backstop is not up for renegotiation.
Motion B: No deal in the absence of a withdrawal agreement
Proposer: John Baron, Conservative
This motion asks MPs to support the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 12 April, if they have not agreed to support the prime minister’s withdrawal agreement by then.
If the UK did leave the EU with no deal, it would mean initially trading on World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms, which could mean tariffs on certain goods and extra checks on UK goods entering the EU.
On 27 March, a similar motion was backed by 160 MPs, but opposed by 400.
Motion H: EFTA and EEA
Proposer: George Eustice, Conservative
This motion proposes that the UK rejoins the European Free Trade Association as soon as possible, meaning the UK stays in the single market.
It also requires negotiations with the EU over “additional protocols” to resolve the issue of the Irish border and agri-food trade.
All excerpts courtesy of BBC.com Brexit: What are MPs voting on?
Published April 1, 2019.
Thumbnail image courtesy of: AP Photo/Matt Dunham
Letter to Britain 