Brexit: The Million To One Shot

Editorial of The New York Sun | August 14, 2019

Not since Chicken Little has anyone — let alone a newspaper — gone into a panic such as has overcome the Financial Times at the prospect of Britain leaving Europe. Its latest geshrai ( Editor's Note: I had to look it up.  As far as I can tell geshrai means "scream".  Why couldn't they have just said scream? RK) is a call for the Mother of Parliaments to step in to delay the departure from Europe now set for October 31 and thus “save the UK” from Boris Johnson’s “no-deal Brexit folly.”

 

What does one figure the EU Mandarins are going to say when they read the pink paper this morning? We figure they’re going to say, “Hmmm, we were thinking of giving ground on some of our most obnoxious points. If an institution like the FT wants Parliament to stop Brexit, though, what’s the point? Maybe we don’t have to be reasonable. We can just wait.”

The FT fears — that’s its raison d’etre, to fear — that a no-deal Brexit has become “the default option.” Says the FT: “The government is preparing for it, and making the civil service do the same. Indeed, its unrealistic attitude towards reworking Britain’s withdrawal deal with Brussels makes the dash for no-deal appear less like a negotiating tactic and more like Downing Street’s preferred plan.”........To Read More....