Bruges Group regard change of leaving day from 29 March as moment of national surrender
The previous day’s exertions had rather taken it out of everyone. Having voted to allow itself indicative votes on the next stage of the Brexit process, parliament pretty much awarded itself a day off while Sir Oliver Letwin and a handful of helpers were having an ontological debate on the meaning of meaning as they tried to work out what colour the ballot papers would be and what font should be used. Most MPs were having a quiet lie down, struggling to work out if there was any point to anything any more as the government that couldn’t govern had already indicated it would regard all indicative votes as non-indicative. A theatre of the absurd.
But at a thinly attended meeting of the Eurosceptic Bruges Group in Westminster, the standard bearers of the One True Brexit fought on. Here were the true believers. The resistance. The paramilitary wing of the Rotary club, threatening mass civil disobedience if Jacob Rees-Mogg failed to maintain his opposition to Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement. Lawns would not be mown, cars would not be washed and churchwardens would go on strike. Society as we knew it in suburban and rural England would grind to a halt. This was the worst day in the country’s history in the past 200 years, said one man. And that included women getting the vote.
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