Express & Star comment: May must accept her ineptitude
The longer that the Brexit deal saga drags on the more difficult it becomes for the Conservative Party to present any mirage of authority.
Prime Minister Theresa May is clearly is office but not in power.
While she thinks there is something to be gained from winning a vote of confidence in her party it seems bizarre because she needs to get her draft bill through the House of Commons, which she stands no chance of doing.
She may win the initial battle – but is destined to lose the war eventually – and we will end up with the Conservatives with a lame duck leader who can’t be challenged for 12 months stuck in limbo with a Brexit deal that no one wants.
This is the politics of the mad house.
All the while calls for a General Election or a second referendum will grow and, as it stands, if the Conservative were to go to the country, particularly with Mrs May as leader, they would be absolutely wiped out.
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The damage she is inflicting on her own party runs the risk of ruining it for many years to come.
The simple fact is that in this Brexit exercise the politicians won merely the execution: the decision was taken by the people.
The politicians were instructed to see through the wishes of the people, but instead have attempted to defy it at every turn led by a Prime Minister who clearly never had any intention of allowing the country to have an effective Brexit and has now served up the worst of all scenarios.
Under Mrs May’s plan Britain will not only have to fork out an eye-watering £39 billion divorce settlement, but will also be bound to EU rules and regulations without having a say on the matter and will never be allowed to leave without the EU’s say so.
This is possibly the worst political deal in history and yet bizarrely some Conservative politicians are attempting to sell this dog’s dinner to the nation.
The people will not be fooled: it is an appalling mess, the Conservatives are in chaos and Mrs May must take responsibility for it.
While clinging on in adversity is seen as an admirable trait, refusal to acknowledge a clear truth and to attack the wider wishes of the electorate is an appalling dereliction of duty.
