Bernard Ingham On This Dog's Breakfast, Broken, Brexit.

IT was, I suppose, always going to come to this had we had the wit to foresee it – messy, unsatisfactory and, heaven help us, with more arm-twisting to follow. I refer inevitably to Brexit, a term that has polluted the political atmosphere for too long. Theresa May’s proposed settlement is what you get when the main players are an earnest, if colourless, Prime Minister presiding over a deeply divided country; a Parliament in fearful turmoil; an insecure France and Germany terrified of the EU’s break-up; and an extreme Opposition led by the Marxist Jeremy Corbyn whose sole concern is to grab power. That is the Devil’s brew, if ever there was one. Theresa May’s open letter to all of us tries to make it not just palatable 
but necessary. Sponsored by eBay It is still, not surprisingly, a dog’s breakfast for Parliament to digest next month. It will no doubt make a meal of it whatever happens. The possibilities seem endless – Theresa May’s resignation, a new Tory Prime Minister, an attempted renegotiation, a general election or an unhappy acceptance that the current compromise is the best we can get 
for now, with more endless talking to come to settle our future relationship with the EU.

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