LCD Views can report his morning that for the many, not the few MPs are expected to step up to the plate and halt Brexit in the next few weeks, because it’s in their self-interest to do so.
“I wouldn’t say step up to the plate, so much as leap like a flock of sheep over an imagined hurdle once enough of them get it into their heads to do so,” our political analyst muses,
“there are of course numerous wolves in sheep’s clothing amongst the 650 MPs currently filing expense forms at Westminster, they genuinely couldn’t care less. They spend their days imagining tearing the underbelly out of the country and devouring it. They’re either presumed to be bought by dark money interests, under blackmail or just swivel eyed, ideologically driven lunatics, but the majority aren’t any of these terrible things. They do however lack courage. Courage only the ticking down of the clock will muster.”
But when will they act? A nervous country waits as the signs of complete political breakdown gather like scat filled storm clouds and the country’s political figurehead, the prime minister, is clearly just interested in adding to the blackmail, for want of any reasoned negotiating strategy. And her opposing number, the leader of the official opposition, is more interested in fevered backroom plotting than any serious leadership, or offering an alternative.
“This is why we can’t have a general election,” our analyst says, “what’s the point? Both main parties are offering Brexit. It’s likely the Conservatives would actually gain a majority because enough right of centre swing voters would vote for them, as a Tory Brexit is less terrifying than a Trot Lexit. And plenty of left of centre swing voters feel so justifiably betrayed by Magic Grandpa that they’ll put their votes elsewhere or spoil the ballot.”
So when will the mass of moderate, sane MPs act?
“Oh, as soon as enough perceive that it’s in their self interest.”