https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/the-uks-remainers-will-tear-down-democracy-and-all-its-rules-to-get-their-way
“The United Kingdom,” the New York Times proclaims with its customary tone of Olympian certainty, “has gone mad.”
That publication has become almost comically anti-British over the past two years, but on this occasion, it has a point — albeit an unintended one.
The author, Thomas Friedman, offers us his lofty diagnosis of Britain’s collective dementia. It is caused, he informs us, by “Conservative hard-liners who used to care about business but are now obsessed with restoring Britain’s ‘sovereignty’ over any economic considerations.”
What he means by “hard-liners,” to be clear, is “MPs who accept the 2016 referendum result,” something all sides promised to do in advance. It is worth pointing out that 12 months after the referendum, there was a general election, at which both the Labour and Conservative parties promised unequivocally to uphold the people’s verdict.
Only now, it turns out that when they made that promise, quite a few candidates had their fingers crossed behind their backs.