Opinion and Analysis - Time to turn to the pro-EU party

By Sam Vete Braab braab black (belt) sheep, have you any wool?                         No Sir, no Sir none at all! Said there would be plenty, but the bags are empty - it is plain!     Nothing for the businessmen, working hard down the lane! Walton and Esher Tory voters, you have been warned! Dump Dominic, the monomaniac ideologue who puts his personal fantasy before the interests of his voters. He displays laughable ignorance of ‘realpolitik’; the significance of the Dover/Calais trade route and the difficulties of a small island (not an empire) in the maelstrom of global trade. Braab, poster-boy of the referendum campaign, becomes the emasculated bell-wether black sheep, entering the pen along with retrogressive 17th century throwbacks; the ERG and Parliamentary hard-core brexiters. He rejects the directions of ‘one dame and her dogs’ (May and the whips) and has chosen his own selfish dogma. He even puts the UK at risk of a ‘no deal’, acknowledged to be far worse than any other deal. Leaving aside the merits or otherwise of May’s BINO (brexit in name only) deal, like it or not, it would be better to stay in the EU. Braab has shown himself to be out-of-step with the electorate, locally and nationally. It is time to rid politics of such extremists. He should either be deselected (q.v. Kate Hoey) or voted out. Don’t imagine for a minute that Labour will be galloping to the rescue. That way lies shepherd Corbyn’s brexit crook and a return to 20th century socialism. Now is the time to turn to the pro-EU party, the LibDems. Our agenda deals with real issues: Schooling and education Affordable housing Protection of the green belt Realistic funding options for the NHS … And, of course, an ‘exit from brexit’!