SOMETHING deeply disturbing will happen in Parliament today.
Theresa May will put forward her Brexit deal that flat-out fails to deliver Brexit.
More than 17million of us voted to take back control from Brussels — yet May’s deal cedes control to Brussels.
It would keep us entangled in some of the very EU institutions we voted to escape. Even worse, it would deny us the right to walk away from these new arrangements without the EU’s say-so.
May’s dodgy deal would reduce the UK to a vassal state, a bossed-about colonial outpost of the Brussels oligarchy. The people voted for Leave, yet May offers us Remain by another name, a deal that sells out Brexit.
For the PM to so wilfully ignore the cry of her people is a sucker-punch to the most basic principles of democracy.
But it gets worse. The MPs who plan to revolt against May’s deal in the Commons today will not do so to protect Brexit.
They are not taking a stand against May’s deal to defend what 17.4million of us — the largest bloc in British electoral history — voted for in June 2016: A clean exit from the EU.
No. They see taking down May’s deal as the first step to taking down Brexit itself.
Whether it’s Europhile Tories or Labour, SNP and Lib Dem MPs who have long loathed the idea of Brexit, an army of parliamentarians plan to knock down May’s deal so they can set about knocking down Brexit.
So the real divide in Parliament today is over how to stop Brexit.
The main thing our MPs will disagree on today is whether Brexit should be killed off by May’s shady deal, by extending the Article 50 process or even with a second referendum, as anti-May MPs would prefer.
Think about this. Think about what it says about the state of British politics.
The people vote in historic numbers to leave the EU. Yet the political class plot and conspire to make sure we do not.
It is hard to think of another time in living memory when politicians have been so spectacularly out of touch with public sentiment — and so sinisterly cavalier about overriding our democratic wishes.
There are honourable exceptions, of course. From Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg in the Tory camp to Kate Hoey on the Labour benches, some MPs will oppose
May’s deal precisely because they believe in Brexit and plan to carry on fighting for it.
But a majority of MPs fall into one of the two Brexit-phobic camps — whether it’s May’s “Remain by another name” or those who would stop Brexit entirely.
Some MPs are terrifyingly upfront about their distaste for the democratic process and their disgust with us, the pesky electorate.
In an unhinged online rant, Labour MP Clive Lewis branded Brexit a “racist endeavour” and said “we need to end it, now”. Let’s be real about what this means.
Ending Brexit means overturning the largest vote in British history. It means ending the right of ordinary people to have a say in Britain’s future. When MPs like Lewis scream, “Stop Brexit!”, they are really saying: “Stop democracy!”
Labour’s David Lammy is also open about his desire to overthrow the largest act of democracy in our history.
He described the vote for Brexit as “madness” and says MPs must “bring this nightmare to an end”. By “this nightmare”, he means the public’s reasoned, democratic request to leave the EU.
This is the depth of the contempt some MPs now feel for ordinary people. They see our political beliefs as a “nightmare”.
On the Tory side, people such as Anna Soubry have not been shy about their hatred for Brexit. On Sunday Ms Soubry posted a chilling message on Twitter.
She said Parliament has “historic” business to take care of this week and reminded everyone that under Section 5 of the Public Order Act, it is an “arrestable offence if a person uses threatening or abusive words”.
In essence, she is warning the masses to stay away from Parliament, to not even think about protesting.
It is testament to the arrogance of the political elite that they can openly call for the overthrow of Brexit and warn the little people they might be arrested if they get too angry about this blatant assault on our democratic rights.
“Know your place, plebs.” That is what they are saying.
The extent to which Parliament is conspiring against the people can be seen in Speaker John Bercow’s ripping-up of parliamentary rules.
Last week, Bercow let MPs vote on an amendment to a motion put forward by Tory arch-Remainer Dominic Grieve.
The amendment, voted through by 308 MPs to 297, would force the Government to come up with a Plan B within three days if May’s deal is defeated in the Commons.
It should be noted here that Grieve has changed his tune.
In his election message to constituents in May 2017 he declared: “The decision of the electorate in the referendum must be respected and that I should support a reasoned process to give effect to it.”
Now he is saying it is “the biggest mistake of our recent history”.
As one commentator astutely put it yesterday: “It’s precisely this sort of sophistry that created the backlash that led to Brexit in the first place.”
The BBC has stated that Grieve’s amendment means MPs who are “plotting” against Brexit would have “more space in which to work”. Thanks to Bercow’s unprecedented move, backbenchers will have much greater leeway to hamper and even kill off Brexit.
It is believed anti-Brexit backbenchers are planning to table an amendment that would give their motions priority over Government motions.
This would not just dramatically change how Parliament has always operated — it would let backbenchers scupper a No Deal Brexit, perhaps even force through a second referendum.
Some are referring to this as a coup — an attempt by certain MPs to take back control from the Government and also from us, the public.
As one senior Government figure said: “This could be ‘game over’ for Brexit.”
Democracy is hanging by a thread in this country.
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Last year, MPs celebrated the 100th anniversary of women and working-class men getting the vote. This year, they are using their clout to overthrow something millions voted for.
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In today’s battle between MPs who back May’s Brexit betrayal and MPs who want to go even further in ending the “nightmare” of Brexit, there will be one clear loser . . . democracy.
- Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked Online.
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