Mrs May is an odd fish some times. I really have lost count of the number of
times she has declared at the Despatch Box in the House of Commons that we’ve had
a referendum on the EU and it’s not going to be re-run. And yet…
And yet here she is saying that there should be a third vote on her “deal” in the Commons.
In other words, one set of standards when you
know that the people have just voted in the biggest turn out in electoral
history to vote to Leave the EU. It
wouldn’t be wise to rubbish the democratic vote in public.
The other set of standards she operates by is
using parliament to ram through what is in effect a vote that will see us
remaining in the EU we have voted to leave.
And the classic tactic she is using?
The same one that EU itself uses time and time again. If you don’t get the vote “right” the first
time, do it again. And again. Think Ireland being forced to re-run a vote after their rejection
of the Lisbon Treaty. (At least they had
the chance to vote, unlike the UK under Gordon Brown).
Clearly
she can’t go out into the country and say “you are all stupid, vote again”. But by her insistence that parliament has to keep
voting to get her desperately flawed proposal through makes her behaviour no
better than the EU Commission who clearly have an A+ when it comes to bullying.
MPs must reject bullying at all cost. Our vote to Leave wasn’t on economics, no
matter how much the Remain camp try to frame the debate. It was and remains all about sovereignty of parliament.
If MPs vote for Mrs Mays deal, they will be
giving it away. They might as well just
give up being an MP. The UK parliament will have become nothing more than Kenneth
Clarke’s wish: “a Parliament (that) is no more than a council chamber under a greater
EU.”
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