Those rogue elements in the House of Commons who appear to be doing their utmost to prevent Brexit from ever happening will, if successful in their tawdry efforts, be guilty of one of the greatest parliamentary betrayals of all time.
THE shambolic chaos that’s surrounded Brexit for months has suddenly morphed into something approaching panic or hysteria. People, whether for or against Brexit, have suddenly realised that the critical vote on the Prime Minister’s much-maligned deal is now only hours away.
AN early general election? I suspect the prospects of that course of action - which has been strongly urged on the Prime Minister by many of her supporters - have possibly been irretrievably scuppered by Chancellor Philip Hammond’s crass Budget decision to dishonour a manifesto pledge by increasing National Insurance on the self-employed.
THE astonishing Tory victory at Copeland probably represents Labour’s worst by-election disaster for more than a century.
A NEW slogan - straight out of fairyland - has been coined by those disgruntled politicians who opposed, and still do so, the prospect of the UK pulling out of the European Union. It is: “The tyranny of the majority.”
LABOUR grandees are scraping around for a new leader if things go amiss for them in the forthcoming Copeland and Stoke Central by-elections, fearing that a continuation of Jeremy Corbyn at the helm could lead the party to disaster at the next general election and beyond.
BAD losers? I should say so. The anti-Brexit campaigners still don’t seem to understand that they lost the referendum last June, and seem hell-bent on frustrating the will of the British voting public, probably excusing their antics by calling in aid the title of the late and great Tam Dalyell’s last book, The Importance of Being Awkward.
YOU could take the Shakespeare comedy, stand it on its head, and retitle it The Taming Of The Trump after the Prime Minister’s successful first meeting with the new President at the White House.
THERE was never going to be the prospect the maverick Boris Johnson would suddenly mutate into your typical po-faced Foreign Secretary who would never say anything disobliging, even if true, about a dodgy ally with whom the UK was desperate to maintain good relations.
THE Prime Minister is boldly resisting the slings and arrows being aimed at her from all directions in her determination to fulfil the will of the majority of voters who backed Brexit in the June EU referendum.
