May’s Crushing Loss Is Proof Brexit Has Failed
Two options remain: Leave with no deal, or no Brexit at all.
Fair point.
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“Defeat” is too small a word for the rebuke Britain’s Parliament handed Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday. Her Brexit deal, laboriously negotiated over many months, was voted down Tuesday by a massive 230 votes — a far bigger margin than expected, and the worst loss of any British government in modern times.
Yet if this brutal rejection has caused May to think again, she didn’t let on. She promised talks, meetings and yet more conferring with the European Union. It’s as though she thinks she can extract some ornamental changes to the bargain and get the House of Commons to come around to her way of thinking. In this, she is almost certainly wrong.