{"id":42612,"date":"2018-07-29T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=42612"},"modified":"2018-07-29T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T11:31:45","slug":"what-will-stop-the-tories-tearing-the-uk-to-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/07\/29\/what-will-stop-the-tories-tearing-the-uk-to-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"What will stop the Tories tearing the UK to pieces?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep feeling as if things cannot get more surreal. And then they do.<\/p>\n

We already\u00a0have talk of food and medicine\u00a0stockpiling in advance of Brexit.<\/p>\n

And now there is, apparently, discussion of the army being prepared<\/a> to keep order and distribute emergency supplies in the case of the no deal Brexit that some in the Cabinet want.<\/p>\n

It takes a moment to recall that no one voted for this. We voted, in a rigged election, where abuse was rife and foreign interference\u00a0almost certain, to leave the EU. We did not vote for hard Brexit. Nor did we vote to bring the country to a situation where measures only usually associated with war might be considered necessary.<\/p>\n

But if we did not vote for this, who is, then, to blame for it? And for all that might happen, come to that?<\/p>\n

Whatever the failings of other politicians (and by no means all are exonerated) the only organisation that can be blamed is the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n

As Politics Home<\/a> notes today, a plan to issue briefings on the consequences of Hard Brexit has been put on hold:<\/p>\n

The proposal was reportedly killed off by a senior official in the Brexit department this week, amid fears that it could spook voters.<\/p>\n

A source told the [Sunday Times]: \"People will sh*t themselves and think they want a new referendum or an election or think the Tory party shouldn\u2019t govern again.<\/p>\n

\"MPs are saying: \u2018If this is done badly, it could hurt us like sleaze did in the 1990s'.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just consider that for a minute. All the source worried about was a) the impact on the Tories and b) the prospect of retaining power. That there was a real issue of concern seems to have\u00a0passed them by.<\/p>\n

And that is why the Tories are to blame.<\/p>\n

But still they carry on wrecking the country in the interests of their puerile internecine squabbling.<\/p>\n

I despair.<\/p>\n

I even wonder if actual civil war would now stop them. I am beginning to doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep feeling as if things cannot get more surreal. And then they do. We already\u00a0have talk of food and medicine\u00a0stockpiling in advance of Brexit.
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