I am still giving most MPs the benefit of the doubt in that I believe they are trying to prevent the most damaging form of Brexit, i.e. (in my view) any Brexit at all. A no-deal Brexit is the most damaging of course, even the government admits that, but anything that impedes our access to what is still our home market of 500 million people can only do damage to our long term economic prospects.The balance, as Jeremy Hunt has put it, is between - the political damage of not leaving, having asked the country for a view, got one, and not acted on it, and - the economic, diplomatic and reputational damage of leaving the world's largest trading bloc. This is widely seen internationally as an unbelievably foolish and unnecessary piece of self-inflicted damage. Parliament will eventually have to decide between these two. I hope they do so with their eyes wide open and then give the public honest and clear explanations why they made the decision they did.Pigs may fly!By the way, the local elections, in my view, prove only that the public wanted to give the two major parties a kicking. I rather agree that the beneficiaries, mainly the LibDems and the Greens (not forgetting the many Independents), are deluding themselves if they believe everyone was suddenly voting Remain. I wish it was otherwise but I don't think it is, by and large.
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