Salute Thereisa May

[Gromit]

Parliament Labour and Tory were predominantly Remainers, but the voting public said they wanted to leave the EU.
May has somehow managed to agree a deal to leave, and managed not to ruin the country.
She is a genius.
Or a traitor.

[emmie]

a traitor to the cause, cassa is spot on, we won't ever get out of the EU now.

[vetuste_ennemi]

But Mrs May is "delivering Brexit in a deal which is in the best interests of the British people".

Nodding donkey Philip Hammond in the House asserted as much based on the nodding gestures and braying. Please try to keep up, Emmie. You've spent far too much time considering the negative aspects of the deal such as the legally binding withdrawal treaty which ties us for ever to the Customs Union and the jurisdiction of the ECJ, rather than concentrate on the aspirational positives of the "Declaration on our future partnership" in which the EU "declares" it will look favourably on, consider and think about Britain's interests in a future relationship with the EU. Comédie-française ou Grand Guignol. Qui sait?

[vetuste_ennemi]

What I can't understand is why every Leave member of the Cabinet hasn't resigned. Most especially Gove. The only difference between May's Brexit and the current situation is that we will have no say in our terms of bondage, rather than a one in twenty-seven say as we do now.

[vetuste_ennemi]

We can[i extricate ourselves in the future, but only at the cost of abrogating a treaty. As Enoch Powell pointed out (citing the American civil war) secession [i]from] a union can lead to violent conflict.

A secessionist UK may have to face the wrath of the new EU army. Mind you, half the French army at the moment is deployed protecting the Louvre etc and its remaining synagogues. So seventy-five per cent in five years time and one hundred per ncent in ten. That just leaves us with the Germans doesn't it?

(Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt. What will happenn third time round, I wonder?)

[ToraToraTora]

well she certainly has managed to get remainers and Brexiteers to agree.

[saintpeter48]

Juncker is now dictating to us, we should tell him and his mates, to do one!
I voted out, not half in and half out, but a big fat OUT!!

[youngmafbog]

It's not half in half out though is it? Effectively it is further in - and without a vote and never allowed to leave unless the EU say so.

[emmie]

i am keeping up, though just about. we have been sold a bill of goods and we are told we must like it, what a really s hite deal.

[Jackdaw33]

The only salute I would give Mrs May is of the two-fingered variety.

[jim360]

As in, V for victory? :P

[Theland]

Vetuste - I entirely disagree with you.
I think Liddington is a far better accomplished, "Nodder," than anybody else on the front bench.

[fiction-factory]

It's easy to criticise but I cannot think of any alternative that would satisfy Leavers and would get through parliament and get the EU approval when the majority of MP are Remainers and the EU were always going to deter other countries from daring to vote to leave. Can someone enlighten me as to what the alterative is?

[naomi24]

^Leave ... as in 'Leave'?