06/02/2019
Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the Commons, has called upon Donald Tusk to apologise for his “disgraceful” and “spiteful” comments. This follows the President of the European Council's declaration that there will be “a special place in hell” for those who promoted Brexit without any plan for how to deliver it safely. Obviously, Leadsom is one of those who were particularly active in campaigning for the UK's exit from the EU and at no stage has she, or any of her fellow campaigners, presented a viable plan for the delivery of a successful exit.
According to Tusk, the EU will not make “any new offer”. Instead, they are waiting for Theresa May to present “a realistic suggestion on how to end the impasse in which the process of the orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU has found itself following the latest votes in the House of Commons”.
Leadsom said, of Tusk's comments, "This is a negotiation between friends, allies, neighbours. It’s supposed to be collegiate and collaborative, and it totally demeans him to stoop to such a spiteful tweet.” To my mind, this is a pretty hypocritical stance from a politician who was a part of an illegally funded campaign, which used lies, misinformation and xenophobic messaging to persuade some voters to put a cross in the Leave box.
If there actually were such a thing as hell, or heaven for that matter, it isn't unreasonable to suggest those who risked the futures of ordinary citizens, both British and European, on the back of a ill-judged 'anti-EU' crusade, would be destined for its fiery pit.
All Tusk was doing, is vocalising what the huge majority of the world's population (or at least those who have paid any attention to Brexit) have been thinking.
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