Brexit is the child of far-right zealotry and Tory incompetence. The referendum didn’t uphold democracy. It debased it
‘I pray to God I get a chance to put things right before I die.” These were the heart-rending words of a woman named Judith who told me she voted to leave the EU because of the £350m promised to the NHS. “It was all lies. And now my granddaughter, a nurse, won’t speak to me.”
Theresa May’s second historic defeat in the Commons last night exposes the extent of parliamentary paralysis over Brexit. With the Tories embroiled in hara-kiri and the economy in meltdown, a general election would be the honourable course of action now. Since honour left the building when the Tories took office, the sequence now is: remove no deal and delay article 50. And with parliament in deadlock, giving the people a final say seems the only way out of Brexit Armageddon.
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