The Guardian view on May’s Brexit: a meaningless deal will not pass a meaningful vote | Editorial
In the two years since the nation voted to leave the European Union, the Conservative party has consistently put politics before country by failing to come forward with a credible Brexit plan. The Tories have also failed to resolve the questions about inequality and powerlessness that were thrown up in too many parts of the country by the poll in June 2016. Instead we have had Theresa May conduct months of parallel negotiations – one set at home and one abroad – to get to a position where this country’s long-term post-Brexit relationship with the EU remains a riddle waiting to be solved.
Mrs May has yet to convince her colleagues that she has a workable plan for what happens when this country leaves the EU, let alone where it is eventually going. The ambiguity is the point: Mrs May’s pitch to the Brexiters is that they ought to wear her temporary fudge while a Canada-style free-trade deal is negotiated. By this ruse Mrs May clings to power. She does not deserve to. The last Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, today aptly quoted Winston Churchill in a thoughtful speech to describe, accurately, Mrs May as being “decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent”.
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