This was why Soubry mentioned the nine hundred hours. If she can’t put together something that Parliament approves by March 29th, then there will still be a Brexit, but it will be a chaotic, no-deal, “cliff-edge” Brexit, with, potentially, miles-long traffic jams near the borders, food and medicine shortages, and questions about the rights of Britons living in Europe and vice versa. to renegotiate the deal-she was in Brussels for that reason when the news of the defections from her party broke-but it doesn’t look good. May is now frantically trying to get the E.U.
(The shorthand for this is an Article 50 delay.) And Corbyn has offered only a mishmash of goals that the E.U. (This is a complex issue shorthanded as the “backstop” question here’s a quick guide.) On the other side, M.P.s who are resisting a hard Brexit are hoping for, if not a second referendum, then at least a pause in the process. But both of those factions have refused to support a deal that May negotiated with the European Union to help manage Brexit-they regard it as too soft and object to provisions that will keep Britain in a customs union with Europe until it can deal with certain issues related to its border with Ireland. members in her ranks, as well as the votes of ten Northern Irish M.P.s in the Democratic Unionist Party, to keep her party in power and herself in the P.M.
Prime Minister Theresa May has only a slim Parliamentary majority she needs the votes of the E.R.G. awkward squad,” which is a fair description. Soubry called them “the right wing, the hard-line anti-E.U. Its leading voices are Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. On the ex-Tory side, the defectors’ complaints centered on the European Research Group, a faction within the Party whose mission is Brexit, the harder the better. Some of his allies dismissed the defectors as being in the hands of business interests. Chris Leslie said that Labour had been “hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left.” Ian Austin, who quit Labour but didn’t join the Independents, said that he, too, had been dismayed by a growing “culture of extremism, antisemitism, and intolerance” within the Party, which he told the BBC risked turning into a “narrow sect.” Corbyn, for his part, has denied that he tolerates anti-Semitism he also said that he was “disappointed” that the M.P.s had left. (Berger, who is Jewish, has had slurs and threats directed against her.) Her colleague Joan Ryan also cited concerns about the rise of anti-Semitism and a fostering of “conspiracy theories” among Corbynites. Visceral hatred of other people, views and opinions-something completely contrary to progressive values-is now commonplace in the party.” He called the party system “broken.” His colleague Luciana Berger said that she would be “embarrassed and ashamed” to remain in a Labour Party that she felt had become “institutionally anti-Semitic” under Corbyn. (Even during the referendum on Brexit, which Labour, at the time, officially opposed, Corbyn couldn’t muster much enthusiasm for Remain he has always been something of a stealth Brexiteer.) But Umunna also said that he had watched “with great alarm the changing culture within the party. Chuka Umunna, who had been with Labour, has been openly frustrated with the unwillingness of the Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to support a second referendum that might have stopped Brexit. They portrayed their former leaders as hurtling recklessly toward Brexit but also, in different ways, into the grips of extremists.
And the mess has a pattern to it-one that may, soon enough, be replicated in the United States.īoth the ex-Tory and the ex-Labourite M.P.s of the Independent Group-who are now sitting together in Parliament-spoke of the “hollowing out” of their respective former parties.
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Both the center-left and the center-right in Britain may be beginning to crack up. quit the Party Friday morning, though without joining the Independent Group. Soubry, Allen, and the third Tory M.P., Sarah Wollaston, were joining eight M.P.s who had, in the previous day, defected from the Labour Party, to form what they are calling the Independent Group. The mess has expanded far beyond Brexit, which is indeed scheduled to take place on March 29th it has engulfed the British political system. “And look at the mess we’re in,” Soubry said. “At eleven o’clock this morning, it’s nine hundred hours to Brexit,” Heidi Allen, one of the other Tory-jumpers, replied. “What, how many hours was it-nine hundred hours?” Anna Soubry, one of three members of the British Parliament who had just announced their resignation from the Conservative Party, asked at a press conference on Wednesday.
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