Thank you for your recent begging letter. I'll try not to be too churlish as, after all, congratulations are in order. Under your premiership. the UK may be divided as never before, fearful of the future, angry and anxious, but gainst all the odds you have managed to unite this disunited and dysfunctional kingdom. Everyone thinks that your deal stinks.
You ask for everyone to get behind you. That’s a big ask. You started Brexit negotiations by deciding to ignore the wishes of that half of the UK which had voted to remain and by deciding unilaterally that those who had voted to leave wanted the hardest possible Brexit. At every stage in these sorry proceedings you were motivated first and foremost by your own career interests, and then by keeping your miserable and fractious party together. Your plan was, and is, to do whatever it takes to further the interests of the Conservative party, and now you have the nerve to write to the people of the UK begging us to get behind you in the national interest.
You began in bad faith and have continued the same way. You initiated the Article 50 process without having a clear plan other than wishful thinking and the unshakeable belief that the EU owed the UK its cake and its cherries because Britain is special. You activated Article 50 when you did because local elections in England were looming. Securing a greater number of Conservative councillors in the shires of England was far more important to you than this so-called national interest which you’re now pleading with us to get behind. You compounded our view that you were acting purely in your own selfish self-interest by embarking upon an entirely unnecessary general election at a crucial point: at a point when the UK should have been framing a coherent and cohesive set of Brexit plans. Instead, you decided that it was an ideal time to try and get one up on the Labour party and secure a large majority for your visionless Brexit, your blank Euro cheque. And you failed. You ended up losing the majority that you did have. The people of the UK told you plainly that we didn’t want your hard nose Brexit that pandered to the Tory right, and yet you ploughed on regardless. Nothing has changed.
Throughout the entire sorry and miserable past two and a half years, you have acted selfishly and mendaciously. And now you wonder why we’re not prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt.
At every step in this Brexit process, your government has been characterised by blinkered self-interest and incompetence. You’ve spent the past two and a half years negotiating with your own party. The UK interest really hasn’t got a look in. And now you want us to get behind your deal, Theresa? Well, in your own words: now is not the time. Now is not the time for us to meekly follow you. Now is the time for us to say, we’ve had enough. You’ve brought this upon yourself.
Yours without sympathy,
Deri Parsons
Disgruntled of Higher Downgate
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