https://quadrant.org.au/opinion
My last report was from the county of Dorset in Britain. Alas, the time my wife and I had in London came to an end in July. Still, I will be following like a hawk all the minute manouverings around Brexit as Boris Johnson tries to stop Remainer Tory MPs from hijacking the referendum result and keep the UK in the European Union. Proroguing Parliament, as he has just done, would seem to indicate the new PM is to be taken at his word. If you want to see a perfect example of the elected MPs of a party becoming massively divorced from the core voters who put them in Parliament, you won’t get a better example than the foes who have been, if not foiled, at least muted.
It is estimated that some 70 to 75 per cent of Tory MPs voted ‘Remain’ while some 75 percent of Tory voters opted for ‘Leave’. With Theresa May, also a Remainer, these Manchurian MPs had their perfect instrument. Her basic negotiating tactic was to offer the EU nearly everything it wanted right at the start, and do so while promising over a hundred times that Britain would leave at the end of March, and that it would not be subject to the EU’s top court etc etc. She broke virtually every single promise she made and I do not see how you can put a charitable spin on that — perfidy more than incompetence, in my view. Only when the Tories slumped to eight per cent in the recent EU elections (which Britain should not have been participating in had Theresa May kept her word) did the party’s MPs realise they were writing the world’s slowest suicide note. That, and Nigel Farage starting his new Brexit Party, which went from nothing to topping the polls in just seven weeks, forced these Conservative MPs to act.
Only when faced with extinction and the total decimation of their party did the Tories choose ‘Leave’ supporter Boris Johnson as leader and the new Prime Minister. An analogy is Winston Churchill. The Tories hated the man in the late 1930s. They tried to deselect him. Nothing other than the fact Hitler was rampaging through Europe would ever have seen this party – stacked full of wall-to-wall appeasers – put him in Number 10. Boris is no Winston. But he’s almost as hated by the Remainer faction of his party. And thus far, fingers crossed, he’s doing exactly what we Leavers need him to be doing. Notice that some Tory MPs are seemingly prepared to put Jeremy Corbyn in as caretaker PM rather than leave the EU with No Deal. They all need to be deselected, in my view, for their treachery against the party (look at what it promised at the last election) and against the referendum result.
