May’s Brexit deal seems sole way forward for UK: Analyst
A European Union divorce agreement negotiated by British Prime Minister Theresa May seems to be the sole option available to prevent further crisis and catastrophe in the UK government, a political analyst from London says.
“The government withdrawal position is going to be the one, simply because there is nothing else which can ... get any sort of large-scale support,” Rodney Shakespeare said in an interview with the Press TV on Thursday.
The analyst said that political parties in the British Parliament have effectively no other option than accepting May’s deal with the EU, saying the current circumstances implied that the rejection of the agreement in the House of Commons would lead to serious chaos in the UK government.
“It (approval of the deal) hasn’t happened but it has to have happened or there will have been a complete and utter disastrous failure of the British politics,” Shakespeare said.
"When you just go around and you don’t agree on anything while you must agree on something that becomes a crisis and a catastrophe.”
He said that major parties, including the opposition Labour Party, have time and again indicated that they will reject May’s Brexit deal. However, he added that the parties will have to “forget their own position and take a view on behalf of the whole country.”
Shakespeare said that May seems to have weathered the initial tumult over her Brexit deal, adding that the she can also “easily survive” a potential vote of no-confidence in her own Conservative Party
“The prime minister is looking remarkably confident and she is getting more confident and that is because some sections of the Conservative Party are now signaling that they will accept the withdrawal agreement,” said Shakespeare.
May told the British parliament on Thursday that there was still some room for negotiation about the final Brexit deal which she and authorities in Brussels are supposed to present to a summit of EU leaders on Sunday for final endorsement.
May hopes the deal she brings from the EU summit could go through the parliament so that Britain can leave the EU on March 29, 2019, having defined the terms of its departure as well as the basic principles of its future relationship with the EU.
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