While May and the Tories are the chief culprits in this utter, complete fiasco, Corbyn and the Labour Party haven't helped. Most of these politicians put their party first, not what's good for the country.
Couldn't agree with this more.
I don't think there's any doubt that the Government, and in particular Theresa May, should take the bulk of the criticism for the current situation, but let's not kid ourselves that parliament as a whole and, indeed, the much venerated EU, are completely devoid of blame.
Given that the referendum was only "advisory" the initial plan to make it a governmental process rather than a parliament process was quite simply lunacy. The ridiculous court case that followed was not only predictable but set the tone for the whole Brexit process.
The next huge mistake was not formulating a proper Brexit plan to take to the EU negotiations. Given that you need parliament consent to any agreement, it makes absolute sense to have cross party involvement in a committee set up to formulate the plan. In addition this committee should have included top civil servants from the appropriate depts., top legal advisors, top people from finance and industry, and European experts who could advise on what we could expect the other side would be coming up with so we could properly prepared. We should then have agreed on a negotiating team which, ideally, would have been cross party, or at the very least have representatives from the 2 main parties. This should all have been done before we even invoked article 50.
The third humungous error was putting at risk her slim majority by taking the country to a general election. The first thing I said when I saw the subsequent agreement with the DUP was that this could get sticky when it comes to the one land border that we have with the EU. It's not as if this was rocket science. The Irish border had already been identified as one of the major area's that needed to be addressed in the negotiations. How could the government not have foreseen this?
Fast forward to the present position. Everybody is talking of the need to compromise, but everyone is expecting the other side to compromise. Nobody, not just the government, is prepared to budge an inch on their own red lines. Plus far too many are still either playing party politics or, even worse in my opinion, have some personal self fulfilling motive ( Boris Johnson immediately springs to mind). This latest walkout by Jeremy Corbyn is a case in point. One moment he's standing up in parliament in PMs questions saying the country is in crisis and baiting the PM to meet with him that afternoon, and then walks out of said meeting because he doesn't like the fact that one of the other participants is present. That's absolutely indefensible and, in it's own way is no different than the political posturing of the DUP that has been so often criticised in this thread. Anybody supporting Corbyn presumably agrees that this political statement is obviously more important than sorting out Brexit, which I find hard to understand given that we now are in an actual crisis with Brexit.
