It’s tense for us Brexiteers, isn’t it? We know that if the Tories don’t secure a Commons majority today then our country probably won’t end up leaving the EU at all.
Almost certainly, an alliance of pro-Remain parties would put Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street. They would keep him there just long enough for Remain to win a low-turnout second referendum. Many Leave voters would boycott such a vote on the grounds of it being a stitch-up that offers a choice between actually staying in the EU and virtually staying in it, just without any political representation.
So it is quite understandable that our nerves are frayed just now. But there is another way of looking at things. It is this: if you’d have offered us, back in the dog days of summer 2018, when that Chequers “turd” of a deal was unveiled, the glorious chance to secure a meaningful Brexit that we have now, we’d have bitten your arm off for it.
Looking back, it is quite clear that Theresa May was, all along, navigating towards a so-called “high alignment” relationship with the EU that would have left Britain under the thumb of Brussels.
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