IT WILL TAKE A GENERAL ELECTION TO SHIFT WESTMINSTER’S BREXIT DEADLOCK
Boris Johnson formally asked the Queen to dissolve Parliament today ahead of hitting the election campaign trail.
Mr Johnson’s tenure as PM has, to date, been one of the most challenging and frustrating.
Of course, Prime Ministers have to take the rough with the smooth. There is much they have no control over and that is not of their making as enter Downing Street and attempt to move forward.
Dealing with the most fundamental issues for Britain is never plain sailing, but, outside of war, I would argue there’s been little as all-consuming as our withdrawal from the EU.
We should worry, however, that the level of impatience with Britain’s status quo — one foot in, one foot hanging in the air — will lead to a terrible miscarriage of justice for the country. If people’s votes are made on the basis of what they don’t like rather than what they really want, that is not an authentic vote.
The original referendum divided people of course. It divided them into Remain and Leave. But what it also did was divide people within those camps into ‘why I think we should remain’ and ‘why I think we should leave’.
Some of us have a clearer idea about what leaving or staying mean now. Others perhaps not so much.
Some of our elected representatives within Westminster have been as guilty of voting according to what they believe.
With so many conflicting views across the benches, with so many seeing an opportunity to score points, every agreement to a deal has had the slimmest of chances.
Political parties have been formed on the basis that the common ground is one issue they all agree to disagree about.
It is the strangest of times and now there’s an election campaign on top with a December 12th election.
Mr Johnson’s campaign offers pledges on the NHS, law and order and getting Brexit done.
In a video on his departure from Buckingham Palace Mr Johnson shared his thoughts that an election is needed because MPs have ‘paralysed Parliament’.
I feel for any Prime Minister in this position and I admire Boris’ tenacity in trying everything he can to clear the path for getting Brexit done. I would suggest his move of getting Westminster right first is the only logical approach.
So I hope that Brexit doesn’t overshadow our choices when we’re at the polls for the general election. There are some very good politicians who are in the job they’re in because they really care. They want to make a difference. They are just as frustrated as we are.
