A retirada "estratégica" pode ser comparada
àqueles jogos entre miúdos, nos quais quando o dono da bola está a perder, o
mesmo interrompe o jogo e leva a bola para casa.
Há muito de cobardia patética nesta atitude e um desrespeito
pelas regras do jogo, neste caso, a soberania Democrática do Parlamento.
Esta teimosia 'tenaz', quando chega a este ponto de vazio de
significado de representatividade política, constitui apenas apego ao poder, a
qualquer custo ...
Reparar na galhofa trocista quando May afirma que ouviu as
vontades diversas do Parlamento ...
OVOODOCORVO
The Guardian view on the Brexit vote: the prime minister is
on the run
Editorial
Theresa May continues to treat parliament with contempt, as
her authority drains away on the most important issue facing Britain
Mon 10 Dec 2018 18.30 GMT Last modified on Mon 10 Dec 2018
19.50 GMT
Theresa May decided to pull the parliamentary vote on her
Brexit withdrawal agreement because she knew she would lose. She has been
humiliated by her own MPs. It is staggering that this defeat only became
obvious to her after it had been clear to everyone else for weeks. In the end,
she chose to run rather than stand and fight for what she had agreed with European
leaders. Mrs May is not saving her leadership, she is devaluing it to the point
of worthlessness. The prime minister has no one to blame but herself for this
mess. In the last two years the government has devoted itself to leaving the
European Union in a manner consistent with Mrs May’s obsessions – primarily
controlling immigration. Her resulting withdrawal agreement has been rubbished
by her own unruly troops. They will not be easily instructed to march in a
different direction.
The prime minister is trying to buy herself time by getting
Brussels to accept some tweaks in her Brexit deal over the Northern Ireland
backstop as a means of persuading some doubters to vote for it. These will be
cosmetic, as EU leaders say there can be no further renegotiation of the terms
of the UK’s departure.
The threats to Mrs May are multiplying. In parliament, the
prime minister foreshadowed a constitutional trial of strength in a furious
exchange with the Commons speaker, John Bercow. Mr Bercow rightly called for
MPs to be allowed to vote on postponing the Brexit debate. In rejecting this,
the prime minister continues to treat parliament with contempt.
Crises of this nature are only resolved in line with a
Commons majority. Mrs May’s actions invite MPs across parties to coordinate
with one another so they make the conduct of the government impossible unless
ministers bow to their will. It is important to note that Mrs May’s deal, even
in its refined form, will garner less support in the Commons than either
another referendum, in which the risk of the option of a catastrophic “no deal”
is endorsed by a weary public, or some variant of the Norway deal, in which we
give up sovereignty for economic stability.
The prime minister wants to play for time, saying only that
the vote on her deal, replete with reassurances, will be held by 21 January –
the last possible date to do so. If dodging a defeat becomes the only way for
Mrs May to survive, then the indications are that she will delay a vote until
the last possible moment. This is playing politics with the nation’s stability.
It ill behoves any prime minister to be so cavalier about such a serious issue.
Her decision to stay on is one based on her own
self-interest and that of her party rather than the country. The prime minister
is now a diminished figure, with her authority draining away on the most
important issue facing Britain. It is galling to hear her claim that the 2016
referendum vote was a cry for help from left-behind Britain when it was Tory
austerity that hollowed out deprived regions. Since then, Brexit has
immobilised the government, leaving it unable to deal with these problems.
Mrs May might claim that she lives to fight another day. But
given that the leadership is on the run from the hard Brexiters, she lives on
only as a political zombie. Ensnared by her own convictions, she has resorted
to dilatory tactics because she has belatedly realised the full weight of their
burden. When, at last, she has been forced to recognise this, she found herself
alone and politically friendless in a party that prefers accommodation of its
prejudices to political calculation – let alone what is best for this country.
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