Brexit Update

Brexit Update

Oh the irony of it! Cameron promised a referendum on the EU in 2016 to avoid a split in the Conservative party and the referendum has become the cause of that split. The circus clowns were going to have their day anyway and now they are having it. Boris Johnson is right in one respect: May's Brexit proposals please no one, neither those who voted Remain nor a considerable proportion of those who voted Leave. It must be obvious to a blind man that there is now no real desire on the part of the British people for any realistic form of Brexit. The right-wing fantasies, given sway by chicanery and probable electoral fraud, have been exposed as such. So what poliician now can, with a straight face, call the referendum result «the will of the people»?

It is very difficult not to conclude that the will of the people now is, albeit perhaps reluctantly, to stay in the EU. Politicians rightly say that they should represent the will of the people but how many of them will represnt that will now? How many of them will have the courage to put the welfare of the country and its peoples' wishes before their own political ambitions? We will see over the coming weeks.