The British revolution isn't over – and it could get even nastier |
ONE lesson learned from Brexit is that the UK Parliament, after 43 years of being tied into the joint sovereignty project that is the EU, proved itself comprehensively incapable of coping with a choice made, and made alone, by the UK electorate.
It didn’t help, of course, that David Cameron – still, I think, the worst prime minister in my lifetime – hadn’t even bothered his arse to game-plan for the possibility of a Leave victory.
Let’s be brutally honest: the mess we have been in since 2016 is entirely down to Cameron’s stupidity.
He included the referendum in the 2015 Conservative manifesto, and then went ahead with it because he thought he couldn’t lose; meaning that he thought he would quash the anti-EU ERG MPs within his own ranks, as well as finishing off the electoral challenge from Nigel Farage and UKIP.
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Yet within hours of the referendum result he took the easiest route available to him and scarpered; leaving his party to try and clean up his recklessness, as well as lumbering it with one pretty duff successor after another.
Then-foreign secretary Lord David Cameron and then-prime minister Rishi Sunak in 2023 (Frank Augstein/PA)Meanwhile, Nigel Farage has manoeuvred himself into spitting distance of Number 10.
Not because of any particular electoral brilliance, but........