By Ben Kerrigan-
EU leaders are giving Britain one last chance to avoid a no deal , as leaders of the 27 countries meet in Brussels to discuss Mrs May’s latest request for a three-month delay to Article 50.
The mood is typically cynical of final outcomes in this tedious and disappointing journey to nowhere on Brexit talks. The French leaders have spoken along similar lines as Donald Tusk, that is being open to a short extension if a positive vote takes place next week. According to sources Germany is among those that want the union to avoid a hard Brexit, but the rest of the leaders will toe the line of EU president Jean Claude Juncker, and president of the European Council, Donald Tusk. They are all united in their determination to get Britain where they want.
EU leaders were locked in talks last night to revise the early draft with an even shorter extension.
EFFORTS
All efforts for Theresa May to get her members of parliament to agree a deal has been thrown back in her face, forcing her on a difficult and almost impossible task. Her leadership has been questioned again and again across the Uk because of her failure to convince enough of her cabinet about the deal she herself negotiated with the EU.
The line of this publication, writers and contributors are reminded, is for corporate support to willing leaders of organisations in difficult times, in order to improve society. Support includes stating truth in its clear and obvious form The naked truth is that if May cannot sell a deal presented to her to influential people in her party who can spread the idea of acceptance, it must mean the deal is too bad to accept. Going over old ground with votes that get no where only makes a fool of parliament and questions their overall competence if they can’t suggest a concrete improvement to the proposal they reject.
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that if MPs vote down Mrs May’s EU withdrawal agreement next week, the UK will leave without a deal.
“In the case of a negative British vote then we’d be heading to a no deal. We all know it. And it’s essential to be clear in these days and moments,” said Mr Macron as he arrived at the summit.
CONDITIONAL
EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has also said that a short Brexit delay “should be conditional on a positive vote next week in the House of Commons”. “We have done our best, now the solution is in London,” he said. Theresa May and her Mps need to ask themselves if they are doing their best, or if their best is just not good enough. Their best calls for a clear identification of the issues holding up an agreement, and then implementing practicable solutions to solve them.
BLAME
Theresa May told the British public yesterday that she shouldn’t be blamed for the constant opposition from her ministers. She is right in some sense, but also wrong in a major sense. In that wider sense, as leader of the party and the country, Ms May should be able to systematically present the strengths of her final deal to Mps in a way that wins them over, if she really believes in the deal. She struck the deal, and therefore has to know how to challenge those opposing her deal if it has no serious flaws.
Mrs May said: “A short extension gives us that opportunity to decide to leave the European Union, to deliver on that result of that referendum and I sincerely hope that will be with a negotiated deal.”
She added: “I’m still working on ensuring that Parliament can agree a deal so that we can leave in an orderly way.” Unfortunately, the prime minister hasn’t got long to secure an agreement on the deal, or a deal, and as leader of the country, she must find a way to achieve that. As stated earlier today by the Foreign Secretary, her leadership is the most tested a sitting prime minister has ever had to face.