As Parliament returns, the Establishment must come clean on Brexit – there’s never been an attempt to level with the public on the difficult choices and complex trade-offs in delivering it…speech thread.
Our negotiating objectives were shrouded in secrecy to keep the realities of Brexit from the people.
Everything has been done by the Establishment to protect Brexit from any kind of scrutiny, whether from the Courts, Parliament or the British people.
Jeremy Corbyn is a life-long Brexiteer and has no plan, he is playing the Labour Party for fools - Labour is not a Govt in waiting but an Opposition in hiding.
The backstop is one of lots of deal-breakers with the PM’s deal – at its heart we will go from a country that ranks on a par with France/Germany to a nation of lobbyists…it is not in our national interest.
There is no easy way of delivering Brexit – all the different brands of No Deal are slogans only, they are not plans on which our country can base its future.
Rather than giving Parliament a false choice, we should think the unthinkable and consider extending A50 and a new referendum to break the deadlock in Parliament.
In public life we sometimes have to face difficult choices, and if we cannot honestly recommend any of the deals in front of us, we must have the courage to call a halt.
The strange thing is that those who say the public is ready to take to the streets are the same people who say the public are bored of Brexit and want to move on.
The betrayal narrative has become the new Project Fear, whatever the Brexit path a significant portion of the public will feel betrayed.
I share the fear and anxieties of many because referendums are rare in the UK and the last one was a singular traumatic event.
In this crisis of our democracy, my answer is that there should be more democracy not less.
