UK - On Wednesday morning, if predictions are correct, Britain is set to be led by a rudderless Government with a lame-duck Prime Minister wrestling off general election hounding by a directionless opposition with a confused Brexit strategy. We may even have no Prime Minster at all. Exasperated Leave voters are pleading with hardline, and even no-deal, Brexiteer MPs to just give in and vote for the deal to make sure Brexit happens.
But Brexiters in Parliament have openly put their politics ahead of the wishes of the 17.4 million Leave voters, risking Brexit altogether by increasing the likelihood the Withdrawal Agreement will fail. Arch-Brexiteer and eurosceptic ERG leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has slammed the government’s “hardly credible” Brexit strategy and promised to vote the deal down despite vowing he wants to deliver on the referendum result. Mr Rees-Mogg is claiming that he supports reaching a deal with the EU but would prefer no-deal to May’s
He said: “In addition to goods continuing to flow, under a no-deal departure, the British taxpayer would save £39 billion, money which could be used to cut taxes, to help our domestic economy and leave plenty to help any exporters who face particularly high tariffs.
"The advantages of Brexit would come through sooner with trade barriers going down in 2019 instead of 2021 which could see the cost of food, clothing and footwear fall sharply if the Government followed sensible policies. This particularly helps the least well off in society.” Brawling MPs are snubbing the very voters who trusted them at the last election instead of uniting behind a Brexit plan and stopping the impending chaos hanging over Britain.