THERE was finally a Brexit breakthrough just after 7pm on Tuesday.
After three years of whingeing and dithering, MPs eventually found the guts to rally round and vote in favour of a viable Brexit option.
Our rotten Parliament is back in limbo thanks to whinging, squatting Remainers they’re living on borrowed time, writes Olivia Utley
From the beaches of Cornwall to the backstreets of Blythe, fed-up Brits breathed a collective sigh of relief. Surprise, surprise, it lasted for about 15 minutes.
Smartypants Remainer MPs decided that, though the deal was all very well in theory, they couldnt possibly be expected to actually make it work now.
No, no, no they needed time to scrutinise. Leaving the EU is a big decision, after all, and to rush it would be unthinkable. Which is, as voters know only too well, utter codswallop.
These people have already had more than three years to blather on about the pros and cons of Brexit, and most of that was pointless anyway because the decision to leave the EU was made by their constituents on June 23, 2016.
No, the real reason so many MPs made the perverse decision to vote for a deal, then immediately vote for a motion which fundamentally undermines it, is that they are dyed-in-the-wool Remoaners.
And they will stop at nothing to reverse the result of the referendum. When their constituents look in danger of exploding with rage, they will throw them a bone. But thats as far as their democratic impulses go.
In their infinite arrogance and sense of entitlement, these over-educated politicians see themselves not as our elected representatives but as Gods representatives on Earth.
Constituents, with their stuck-in-the-mud views and old-fashioned belief in the greatness of their country, are there to be placated and patronised but actually listening to them is a step too far.
STEP TOO FAR
The bitter irony of the whole ludicrous affair is that each new delay dreamed up by smug Europhile MPs is another nail in the coffin of the future relationship between Britain and the EU.
Even if the British political class is desperate to keep banging on about Brexit, the rest of Europe and the world has already lost patience.
Although the letter(s) that Boris Johnson was forced to send to Donald Tusk have been received and duly noted, the lack of enthusiasm for any hold-up among the 27 partners is crystal clear.
Now that an end is in sight, they cannot wait for the British to bring the whole sorry business to an end. And those who try to get in the way of that end including British MPs are regarded as nothing but a nuisance.
Every single one of the desperate politicians who voted against the programme motion to set out a timetable for the bill deserves the contempt of voters.
But particular fury must be reserved for Dominic Grieve and his simpering partner in crime, Justine Greening.
This odious pair stood as Conservatives in the 2017 General Election and said repeatedly and on the record that Parliament had a duty to deliver the result of the referendum.
Their resolve lasted just as long as it took them to get elected, then all of a sudden they changed their minds.
BEGGING BOWL
Three years on, they are still squatting shamelessly, sitting as independent MPs away from the Governments benches, spending their days making long, impassioned speeches about the joys of a second referendum who do they think theyre kidding?! while doing everything they can to block the heroic efforts of their former colleagues to get Brexit done.
In any normal democracy, they would be out on their ears. But this rotten Parliament is anything but normal or democratic.
Thanks to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act the brainchild of Oliver Letwin, a man with the common sense expected of someone with a philosophical treatise entitled Ethics, Emotion And The Unity Of The Self to his name a General Election is out of the question until the Labour frontbench deigns to agree to it.
And when will that be? Well, if Jeremy Corbyn had any decency, it would be right now. Over and over again, he has said he is simply desperate to go to the people, just as soon as his conditions are met.
Well, now they have been. The Surrender Act has been passed into law and the Prime Minister has been successfully strong-armed into going back to the EU with a begging bowl.
But Corbyn knows his chances of winning an outright majority in an election are vanishingly small, so with no conceivable excuse left he continues to hold out against one.
Three-and-a-half years ago, Brits voted in their droves to take back control of our democracy.
On Tuesday, MPs showed their complete and utter contempt for that vote. If they think their voters wont notice, they are living in cloud cuckoo land.
However much Corbyn dreads it, an election really is round the corner. And this rotten Parliament is living on borrowed time.
