Boris comes across as arrogant and entitled. He pays lip service to the law but everyone can see that he holds it in contempt.
This is why the opposition frustrated his wishes to have an election....because they felt (rightly in my view) that he’d use it as a way of getting round the law requiring him to seek an extension.
A law he plainly doesn’t like...and one he’ll do anything to frustrate.
His language, and that of some of his colleagues, has, in effect pitched Parliament against “the People”. He’s done this, not out of any deep constitutional beliefs but because he sees it as a way of getting us out of the EU “come what may “...”do or die”....with or without a deal.
He’s painted himself into a corner with his reckless rhetoric and can’t stomach having to climb down.
If he sets the nation on fire, with families rift and at each other’s throats, even if it’s his own family, he doesn’t care. And Labour were quite right to point out that unleashing this divisiveness on the country can reap fatal consequences.
And throughout this fiasco he’s maintaining, without an iota of credibility, that he’s earnestly seeking a deal! May’s deal was ultimately defeated by his own Brexiteers. Fat chance of him bringing anything back to satisfy them, even if you believe he’s trying.
Michael Deacon - Sketchwriter in the Telegraph sums up the situation nicely:
'The study of Brexit will keep academics busy for decades. But the busiest won’t be historians or political scientists. They’ll be psychologists.
Just look what the EU referendum has done to us. On all sides it’s turned the moderate militant, the rational rabid, and the calm crazed. More than ever before, political thinking seems informed not by evidence or reason but by pride, pigheadedness, delusion – and above all else anger. What we’re witnessing isn’t the conventional cut and thrust of debate. It’s a collective nervous breakdown'.
Experience is not what happens to you;