Have Tory Anti-Democrats Wrecked Brexit?

Weep for Brexit: the British dash for independence has failed

• AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD

6 JUNE 2018 • 9:27PM. Telegraph.

Labour has now lurched twice, first towards the customs union and this week calling for 'full access to the EU’s single market'

Brexiteers, bring out your black suits of mourning. Grieve with private dignity. The quixotic bid for British independence has failed. 

There will be no return to full sovereign and democratic self-rule in March 2019, or after the transition, or as far as the political eye can see. Britain will be bound and hemmed until the latent contradictions of such a colonial settlement cause a volcanic national uprising, as they surely must.

The Westminster class is edging crablike towards a double embrace of the EU single market and the customs union, the full EU package but without a veto in the European Council, or Euro-MPs with heft in the dominant blocs of Strasbourg,  or judges on the European Court..