British government in chaos. Theresa May challenged hard

After yesterday's vote of the Council of Ministers meeting to vote on the draft Brexit agreement reached by May with the European authorities, four members resigned, putting the political future of Theresa May and the whole of the United Kingdom at serious risk.

Dominic Raab, Brexit minister, UK chief negotiator in negotiations with the EU, in a completely unexpected way, with a letter posted on Twitter declared; "I cannot support the agreement with the EU, the proposed solution for Northern Ireland poses a real threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom".

After Raab, the resignations were also presented by Undersecretary for Brexit Suella Braverman, by Shailesh Vara, Undersecretaries for Northern Ireland and Labor Minister Esther McVey.

Vara, like Raab, does not accept the compromise on Northern Ireland, which provides for a sort of single market with the EU for a potentially indefinite period, which, according to him, would untie it from Great Britain (ie the rest of the United Kingdom). Raab says: “We are a proud nation and we have reduced ourselves to obeying the rules made by other countries that have shown that they do not have our best interests at heart. We can and must do better than this. The people of the United Kingdom deserve better ”.

He also strongly criticizes McVey who stated with determination that "May's agreement does not respect the result of the 2016 referendum, we have gone from a situation where no agreement was better than a bad agreement to another where a bad agreement is better than no agreement with the EU. I'm not there ".

The first Minister May, during her speech, summed up yesterday the main results of the agreement obtained:

  • end of free movement of people;
  • end of payments of money to Europe;
  • end of the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union and of common agricultural policies.

The price of these conquests, however, is a customs union with the potentially eternal European Union, a special regime for Northern Ireland (the famous "backstop", the most controversial point of the agreement), a strict regime in financial sector and a new and long negotiation period on a range of other topics

Those who participated in yesterday's Council of Ministers told of dramatic scenes, with at least two ministers in tears (including McVey, it seems) and at a certain point the Eurosceptic rebels would have collected signatures to undermine May as party leader, but then they gave up.

According to British newspapers, there is little chance that the agreement will go to Parliament, the Labor Party, the Scots of the SNP, the North-Irish DUP and more than 50 conservative deputies have all said or made it clear that they will vote against.

It is difficult to foresee the consequences that would exist if the agreement does not exceed the stumbling block of the Parliament.

In all likelihood this would lead to the resignation of Theresa May and the successor could attempt the renegotiation of the agreement with the European Union in the hope of being able to obtain a better agreement by concluding the negotiations by March 29 next year, this date on which the UK will officially be outside the European Union.

If by that date there is no agreement providing for a transition period, the United Kingdom will exit the EU without any kind of agreement, which could cause enormous harm to the country.

British government in chaos. Theresa May challenged hard

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