One day we’ll wonder how these Brexit fanatics seized the nation | Polly Toynbee

Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg are only paper tigers. A Commons vote will expose them for the paltry force they are

Has the country ever been so badly governed as by this out‑of‑control Conservative party? The moving remembrance on Sunday of the end of the first world war reminds us of a time when an even worse government accidentally plunged the country into a far greater cataclysm. But short of war, the folly, incompetence, ignorance, obstinacy, stupidity and delusions of the party that brought us to this crisis are unparalleled.

This Brexit vandalism in the middle of a cripplingly long recession is brought to us by a party that has taken leave of its senses. The world looks on aghast, amused, amazed and maybe pleased to see our strutting on the world stage punctured by our own absurdity, as our influence ebbs away.

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