The remain campaign seem determined to ignore the manifest and expressed will of a majority of voters in the referendum. Having lost the vote and the argument for a re-run they now are seeking to use the Commons and the House of Lords to to keep us in Europe.
Make no mistake all this talk about debating the government's strategy for the negotiation of a withdrawal from Europe has nothing to do with democracy, In fact the very opposite is true. What they are seeking to do is to force the government into adopting a so called "Soft Brexit", by making them promise to keep the UK in the "Single Market" (the SM). They do this knowing that to gain completely unfettered access to the SM we will have to accept the free movement of people, continue our agreement to accept and adopt EU laws, submit ourselves to the authority of the European courts and their unelected lawmakers and also continue to accept the free movement of people. These conditions are of course exactly what the British people voted to get rid of.
This fifth column hiding on the back benches are also trying to force the Brexiteers to reveal their entire negotiation strategy ahead of any negotiations. Anyone who has ever conducted any negotiation process knows that the first rule is that you keep your cards as close to your chest as possible and you never ever reveal ahead of time where your "red lines" are, orwhere you are prepared to compromise. It appears to me that the remain camp are acting as agents for their pals in Europe in trying to uncover our secrets, perhaps so they can exchange them for a seat on the gravy train when we are beaten to the point of surrender because we entered into a negotiation stripped of all our weapons and defences.
I believe that I also detect the odious smell of George Osborne provoking his proxies to act as his cat's paws in still trying to deliver Project Fear. Is George cooking up other machinations, to a recipe he learnt from that master of the dark and devious arts, his friend Peter Mandelson? Chief among these cap's paws is the governor of the Bank of England. During the referendum campaign Mark Carney was a cheerleader for Project Fear and ever since the vote he has continued to talk down our economy and talk up how dire life will be after Brexit. George has also got a number of his colleagues to approach the media in a continued attempt at bringing down Theresa May by death by a thousand cuts.
I think that we should applaud Theresa May's pledge to extricate us from Europe; all the more so because while it may not be something she campaigned for, she has recognised the will of the people and is trying to carry that out. I am sure that she and the ministerial team she has put in place can negotiate us an exit from Europe that will ultimately bring sovereignty and prosperity back to Britain. I don't for one moment think that we will get everything we want; negotiations are never like that. There will be a price to pay, but I'm sure that if the dissenters would accept the democratic decision we have taken, stop trying to keep us in Europe by the back door and above all cease this attempt to hamstring our negotiators before we've even started we can forge a deal that works not only for us but their (and our) friends in Europe.
I think those in parliament should contemplate the consequences of our being forced by their efforts into becoming a vassal sate of Brussels. Such an outcome would, in the long run, be as bad for Europe as it would be for us. To put it crudely and to paraphrase the old saw; a fudged brexit which shackles us with the free movement of people, EU law and leaves us still making massive monetary contributions to a club we no longer want to be in would leave us in the door of the tent still pissing in. While a clean hard Brexit leaves us outside the tent too busy making our way in the wider world to piss off anybody.
Let's all accept that Brexit is want the country voted for and that"Brexit means Brexit". Let's leave our negotiators to negotiate a clean break and not a fudge and, most importantly, let's not hobble them by having them compose a battle plan in full and open view of the enemy.
