And even seasoned political commentators/pundits are now envisaging the likelihood it'll go through...
88 days into office, and, as Prime Minister Johnson suggests, still going all-out for a no further delay Brexit...though not necessarily (or even likely) a 'no deal' one anymore...
Whilst the grounds surrounding 10 Downing Street swarm daily (and especially upon their relatively rare Saturday Commons' sitting overnight) with ardent, determined, passionate if arguably (occasionally) extremely misguided protestors (on the *Bremain side, that is!) Those whose idea of democracy is evidently one in which it's either their own chosen way or the highway, never mind, even **'bugger the people'.
But interestingly upon this rather 'deja vu' occasion it was none other than the ever eminently dignified and respectable Teresa May, (now ordinary) M.P., who rose most powerfully to the occasion and delivered the sternest rebuke to the aforementioned, in the person of their parliamentary standard-bearers...
For as the former British (herself constantly 'Brexit thwarted') Prime Minister has summed up in a pretty neat little nutshell (and herein my own doubtless poor paraphrase thereof): Is it in fact the case that [the assembled] U K parliamentarians really had no intention whatsoever of following through upon, of delivering on the outcome that people would indicate they wanted at the 2016 referendum?
Her words carried a gravitas and stern solemnity which seemed to not only beautifully sum up the situation in its entirety, but to point out the ***realpolitik at play since the start, whilst exposing to public gaze (and doubtless well-befitting opprobrium) the kinds of sordid, self-serving motivations - and moreover double-dealing/duplicity - ever lurking in the dark and dirty corners of political life.
To Be Continued (upon retrieving said classic speech (quote) and sufficient shuteye)...
*Which isn't to deny that no-one on the opposing (i.e.pro-Brexit) side may not be altogether unhinged as well... -yes, please forgive the quadruple negative in this case, but though I've studiously tried every which way to rework that into some semblance of sentence sanity, I just can't do it, folks...
**I.e. those who were in the majority in the June 23rd (2016) referendum; but of course not the (suggested majority of) people in the polls pretty well ever since said referendum whose revamped views (if only barely so, almost to the percentage point reversing the result upon that fateful day) are much more palatable and acceptable to their particular political tastes and sensibilities; delivering a(n) (suggested) outcome - were there indeed to be a second referendum - which, wonder of wonders, just so happens to coincide with their own (anti-Brexit) prejudices. Funny that, eh!
***'practical politics based on the realities and necessities of life, rather than moral or ethical ideas' (according to my ever trusty 'ole Chambers Concise Dictionary (Cambridge, 1988).
88 days into office, and, as Prime Minister Johnson suggests, still going all-out for a no further delay Brexit...though not necessarily (or even likely) a 'no deal' one anymore...
Whilst the grounds surrounding 10 Downing Street swarm daily (and especially upon their relatively rare Saturday Commons' sitting overnight) with ardent, determined, passionate if arguably (occasionally) extremely misguided protestors (on the *Bremain side, that is!) Those whose idea of democracy is evidently one in which it's either their own chosen way or the highway, never mind, even **'bugger the people'.
But interestingly upon this rather 'deja vu' occasion it was none other than the ever eminently dignified and respectable Teresa May, (now ordinary) M.P., who rose most powerfully to the occasion and delivered the sternest rebuke to the aforementioned, in the person of their parliamentary standard-bearers...
For as the former British (herself constantly 'Brexit thwarted') Prime Minister has summed up in a pretty neat little nutshell (and herein my own doubtless poor paraphrase thereof): Is it in fact the case that [the assembled] U K parliamentarians really had no intention whatsoever of following through upon, of delivering on the outcome that people would indicate they wanted at the 2016 referendum?
Her words carried a gravitas and stern solemnity which seemed to not only beautifully sum up the situation in its entirety, but to point out the ***realpolitik at play since the start, whilst exposing to public gaze (and doubtless well-befitting opprobrium) the kinds of sordid, self-serving motivations - and moreover double-dealing/duplicity - ever lurking in the dark and dirty corners of political life.
To Be Continued (upon retrieving said classic speech (quote) and sufficient shuteye)...
*Which isn't to deny that no-one on the opposing (i.e.pro-Brexit) side may not be altogether unhinged as well... -yes, please forgive the quadruple negative in this case, but though I've studiously tried every which way to rework that into some semblance of sentence sanity, I just can't do it, folks...
**I.e. those who were in the majority in the June 23rd (2016) referendum; but of course not the (suggested majority of) people in the polls pretty well ever since said referendum whose revamped views (if only barely so, almost to the percentage point reversing the result upon that fateful day) are much more palatable and acceptable to their particular political tastes and sensibilities; delivering a(n) (suggested) outcome - were there indeed to be a second referendum - which, wonder of wonders, just so happens to coincide with their own (anti-Brexit) prejudices. Funny that, eh!
***'practical politics based on the realities and necessities of life, rather than moral or ethical ideas' (according to my ever trusty 'ole Chambers Concise Dictionary (Cambridge, 1988).
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