The Prime Minister pulls the emergency brake

Theresa May has pulled the emergency brake. It was all too clear that she would have retracted on Tuesday during the vote on the Brexit Treaty in the house of a crushing defeat, due to which she might have been forced to resign.

with up to 200 votes against a proposal, of which perhaps a third of his own party would have, would be not only in the eyes of your opponent is no longer tenable. Even its proponents would have to admit in this case, that May has lost her authority in trying to push a Treaty through the Parliament, has no Chance.

So she did, after all, what she had denied up until the last: the Showdown in Parliament – to move it on the X day. In addition, they will ask you to do now, what she wanted to do actually, also in Brussels to renegotiations and small compromises so that you can submit in the second attempt at home. Everything was to be decided this week – you can hear it at this time everywhere in Westminster.

you want to at least be able to say: Look, I've tried it. You like to keep the window policy, but the debate is currently in London, little of Substance, a lot of redundancy, instead of muscle games.

Little is gained with the shift – except now, quite acutely, to avoid a government crisis. Where it, paradoxically, is even well possible that just the postponement of the vote, triggering a crisis in the first place. Not only are there in the Parliament a fierce resistance against the government of the deputies their vote, practically in the last Minute.

But there are fierce rumors that the May opponents in his own party enough of the Back-and - Forth and you want to cut off circulation. Everything was to be decided this week – you can hear it at this time everywhere in Westminster.

know-it-alls, the facts do not

you May see the way and all is well – this myth fueling those who would follow now. All sorts of men in all parties to announce, therefore, about the British media, how would you negotiate, how May would have had to negotiate – and that one must only knock on the table in Brussels, to finally get a decent contract. In fact, these overlooked know-it-alls a simple fact: the EU does not work.

Should it survive, May politically, remains her biggest Problem. May's walk to Canossa, respectively, Brussels is likely to bring cosmetic corrections, but not a fundamentally different contract. Therefore, the tug-of-war would go then from the front. But then in the new year, without that clear would emerge majorities for alternative solutions.

The clock is ticking. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 10.12.2018, 19:45 PM