”Hard Brexit” Has the “Better Chance”

Okay, Anglophiles, I’m betting you have an appetite for Brexit “inside baseball” details. To feed that appetite, National Review has an article which lays out the various machinations that have roiled Brexit politics recently. It concludes:

The government defeated the Remainers’ amendment on the customs union by 307 to 301 votes. Twelve Tory Remainers voted against the government, but four Labour dissidents and one independent voted with it. This is a striking victory for the Tory Brexiteers rather than for ministers, however, because it demonstrates that a policy of clean or hard Brexit has a better chance of becoming law than either the misbegotten Chequers compromise or a more Remainer approach.

Good news. COTTonLINE has favored hard Brexit, the proverbial “clean break.” This mostly because the EU is an anti-democratic bureaucratic nightmare, a phalanx of faceless technocrats hiding behind the faux-legislative fig leaf of the European ‘Parliament.’ No word on a solution for the Irish border dilemma, though.