It's time Theresa May made her exit from No 10, says ANN WIDDECOMBE
THE comparison between Theresa May and Neville Chamberlain is false. Chamberlain thought he had negotiated a peace. May has negotiated a surrender.
The lady who so bravely declared that no deal was better than a bad deal when she wanted to become PM, now bleats that this is the best deal on offer and that the alternative is to stay in the EU.
No. The alternative is to leave without a deal, whereupon one will be cobbled together PDQ. You would think from the huge Cheshire cat grin on her face in the Sunday papers that she had returned triumphant instead of having connived at a national humiliation, by which we will be tied to their rules forever, unless the EU leaders agree to our coming out of the customs union.
How could she have agreed that and have the gall to tell us we are leaving? Most of us accept that an extended period of staying in the customs union could help in ensuring an orderly transition but we, not the EU, must decide when we leave it.
And the agreement should have provided for a withdrawal on the demand of either party, not locked us in to an arrangement which can only be terminated with EU approval.
Why should it ever agree when it has us rulebound and powerless?
The House of Commons should reject this deal and I think we should reject this PM, not in the interests of any likely contender for her position, but in the interests of Britain.
A week ago I was arguing for her to stay rather than add to the uncertainty during the most important international negotiations for 50 years but I now think she is too dangerous.
The tactics of the EU and the Remainers have been to wear us down with delay and threats of chaos.
They have succeeded even with some national newspapers which should know better.
This one now stands almost alone in defending the will of the British people.
We must leave the EU decisively and completely and in a few years time we will wonder what all the fuss was about.