On Wednesday, following last week&#8217;s allegations on a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/10/labour-bosses-accused-of-undermining-fight-against-antisemitism-bbc-panorama">BBC Panorama documentary</a> that senior figures close to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46216/anti-semite-jeremy-corbyns-british-labour-party-hank-berrien">anti-Semitic </a>British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn had interfered in anti-Semitism cases, the roof fell in on Corbyn, as over 60 members of his party took out an ad in The Guardian accusing him of having “failed the test of leadership” and saying to Corbyn, “You still haven’t told the whole truth.” At the same time, Conservative party leader Theresa May used the ad in Parliament to launch a fiery denunciation of Corbyn, calling on him to apologize.
May thundered, “There is an issue, Mr. Speaker, that needs to be addressed in this House, and before the right honorable gentleman stands up and parades himself as the champion of climate change or the champion of the people, or the defender of equality and fairness, he needs to apologize for his failure to deal with racism in the Labour party. Just today, 60 distinguished members of the Labour party have written in the newspaper, &#8216;The Labour Party welcomes everyone, except, it seems, Jews. This is your legacy, Mr. Corbyn. You still haven’t opened your eyes. You still haven’t told the whole truth. You still haven’t accepted your responsibility. You have failed the test of leadership.&#8217; Apologize now.&#8221;
Corbyn responded weakly, “This party opposes racism in any form whatsoever. Anti-Semitism has no place in our society. No place in any of our parties and no place in any of our dialogue.” He then accused the Conservative party of harboring Islamophobia.
May then rose and fired back, “But the right honorable gentleman I know, did not apologize in response to my first questions. We deal with Islamophobia in the Conservative party; any allegations of Islamophobia are dealt with, unlike his way in the Labour party, where he is failing to deal with anti-Semitism. Just last week, Trevor Phillips, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the following: &#8216;Labour today presents like a textbook case of institutional racism&#8217;.”
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/16/tom-watson-backs-labour-motion-auto-exclude-racism">The Guardian</a> noted that in the BBC documentary, “eight former staff members accused the Labour of failing to tackle complaints about antisemitism properly and allowing Corbyn’s office to get involved in disputes.”
The <a href="https://labourlist.org/2019/07/this-is-your-legacy-mr-corbyn-67-labour-peers-advert-on-antisemitism/">full text</a> of the advertisement signed by 64 members of the Labour party read:
<blockquote>The Labour Party welcomes everyone* irrespective of race, creed, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. (*except, it seems, Jews)
This is your legacy Mr Corbyn
Under your leadership, Labour is no longer a safe place for all members and supporters, whatever their ethnicity or faith. Thousands have resigned and thousands more feel unable to attend party meetings because of the toxic culture you have allowed to divide our movement. After initially defending the racist mural in East London you admitted being unable to recognise that it was antisemitic because you didn’t look closely enough.
You still haven’t opened your eyes.
After your staff shielded antisemitic conduct from the party’s disciplinary rules, you said: ‘I do not intervene in cases, my office does not intervene in cases.’
You still haven’t told the whole truth.
We are not asking if you are an anti-Semite. We are saying you are accountable as Leader for allowing antisemitism to grow in our party and presiding over the most shaming period in Labour’s history.
You still haven’t accepted your responsibility.
Labour can’t fight racism in society if we can’t deal with racism in our own party. We can’t be a credible alternative government that will bring the country together if we can’t get our own house in order. Your failure to do the right thing will lead to the failure of the Labour Party being able to make our country a better place for the people and communities we seek to serve.
It’s the style of your office and your followers to deny the truth of the message and denounce the messengers, whether they are party members or whistleblowers from Labour’s head office. But we cannot stay silent while younger, braver party workers and members speak out.
You have failed to defend our party’s anti-racist values.
You have therefore failed the test of leadership.</blockquote>
Clive Soley, a former chair of the parliamentary Labour party who was one of the members signing the ad, stated, “I think the situation is that we either do something now or just watch the the Labour party die. It is that tragic. If you look at it historically, the Liberal party took two general elections to die as an electoral force. This could happen to us. The party is hemorrhaging support dramatically and it&#8217;s very hard to see how we stop that with Jeremy and his group leading the party.”
Former defense secretary Lord Robertson, who also signed the ad, <a href="https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/jeremy-corbyn/news/105367/labour-peers-take-out-advert-tell">stated,</a> &#8220;It was important to make a bold statement so that Jeremy sits up and understands the strength of feeling. The problem has been discussed by Jeremy but the action taken hasn’t been strong enough. No one is convinced that the party is getting to grips with the truth, which is shameful to us all, that there are racists in our party and they aren’t being thrown out quickly enough.&#8221;

Over 60 Members Of His Own Party Take Out Blistering Ad Denouncing Anti-Semitic British Leader Jeremy Corbyn

Anti-Semitism

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Theresa May

President Donald Trump will make an official state visit to the United Kingdom, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48020410">the BBC reports</a>, as part of a week of celebrations honoring the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
A state visit to the U.K. has been on the table since Trump was elected back in 2016, and both sides made several efforts to make official plans for Trump to visit with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and to visit Buckingham Palace for an official engagement with Queen Elizabeth II, but nothing was ever set in stone. The last effort &#8212; an overture from May&#8217;s government &#8212; nearly resulted in an official state visit, but the White House cancelled citing &#8220;security concerns.&#8221;
Trump has been to the U.K. once before, for a &#8220;working visit&#8221; where he met with May to discuss trade, and journeyed to Windsor Castle with First Lady Melania Trump for tea with the Queen.
This time, though, the visit is timed to coincide with D-Day 75 celebrations set to take place in both the U.K., where the joined Allied invasion that turned the tide of the war against Nazi Germany in Europe was planned and launched, and in Normandy, France, the site of the invasion and the location of several Allied cemeteries.
The White House revealed Tuesday that an official invitation had been offered and accepted.
&#8220;President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump accepted the invitation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to visit the United Kingdom from June 3 to 5, 2019,&#8221; the White House said in a statement. &#8220;This state visit will reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.&#8221;
The state visit will begin June 3 and extend through June 5. Trump will participate in D-Day celebrations in Portsmouth, U.K., attend an official state banquet where he and Melania will be guests of the Queen, and will meet with both Theresa May and members of Parliament. He will then travel to France for D-Day 75.
Although the visit does center around a joint celebration, protesters in the U.K. have promised to make Trump&#8217;s trip to the U.K. as difficult as possible, announcing Tuesday that the president should expect &#8220;maximum disruption&#8221; if he appears in public, and promising a massive protest against Trump&#8217;s &#8220;climate change&#8221; policies in downtown London.
<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-protests-maximum-disruption-1403419">Newsweek reports</a> that &#8220;plans were already underway for when the president arrives, including a &#8216;big demo,'&#8221; that protesters say will make Trump&#8217;s visit &#8220;unpleasant.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s up to us, again, to say Trump is not welcome, and to make his visit as unpleasant as possible. We&#8217;re going to aim for maximum disruption,&#8221; the &#8220;Stop Trump Coalition&#8221; said in a statement to the outlet. &#8220;I&#8217;d really hope his visit will become a magnet for all those who want radical climate action to be undertaken, because Trump, after all, is a symbol of climate change denial globally&#8212;one of the reasons we see him as one of the most dangerous men in the world at this time.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump is the world&#8217;s number one racist, warmonger and misogynist, with no solution to the global economic crisis,&#8221; said the leader of a group called &#8220;Stand Up to Trump.&#8221; &#8220;His presidency has emboldened every fascist and racist across the globe and is stirring up tension in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. &#8230; Donald Trump is not welcome here.&#8221;
Last time Trump visited the U.K., protesters trotted out a &#8220;Baby Trump&#8221; balloon that proved rather underwhelming. The balloon is now on a &#8220;protest tour&#8221; in the United States and there&#8217;s no word on whether Baby Trump will be back in the U.K. for a repeat appearance.
Trump was also left largely unperturbed by the protest that took place during his last visit. He did not appear in public and was not affected by demonstrations in downtown London.

President Trump’s State Visit To The U.K. Is Set, Protesters Promise ‘Maximum Disruption’

Donald Trump

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The United Kingdom has been stingy with its state visits since Donald Trump became president, but it seems Queen Elizabeth II is willing to make an exception, even amid the Brexit crisis, to welcome Trump for the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th.
<a href="https://people.com/royals/queen-elizabeth-expected-to-invite-president-trump-for-state-visit/">People Magazine reports</a> that &#8220;after much back and forth,&#8221; the Queen has settled on welcoming the president, now more than two years into his term, to mark the success of Operation Overlord and the massive joint invasion that started the Allies down the path to victory in World War II.
Donald Trump may even get to ride in a carriage down London&#8217;s mall to Buckingham Palace accompanied by members of the Queen&#8217;s Household Cavalry to mark the occasion. He may also get a gun salute and an invitation to an official State dinner at the palace, held in the ballroom, <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/08/donald-trump-get-full-state-visit-including-carriage-procession-june-9130848/">per Metro</a>.
The White House and Buckingham Palace are still ironing out the details, but a formal announcement is expected later this week. Trump is expected to follow up that visit with a jaunt to the northern coast of France, where he will take part in the official D-Day 75 festivities.
This will be the first official state visit to the UK for President Trump, but not his first visit. That came in 2018, when Trump traveled to London on a series of official engagements with UK lawmakers and trade representatives. On that visit, Trump and his wife, Melania, were welcomed to Buckingham Palace for tea with the Queen but did not take part in any banquets.
His visit was mostly marked by protests, including the underwhelming debut of a &#8220;Baby Trump&#8221; air balloon.
This time, Trump will visit again with the UK&#8217;s Prime Minister Theresa May, but will also spend a few days meeting with other members of the British government, including controversial Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is not a fan of the Trump administration.
If the visit with one of the United States&#8217; most treasured allies seems late in coming, that&#8217;s because it is. Trump has been scheduled to make an official state visit to the United Kingdom since he was elected in 2016, but plans for the meetup were repeatedly shelved, and not just by U.K. leaders.
When he first took office, Theresa May offered Trump a state visit immediately and Trump accepted, but the Trump White House later pulled out of the meeting over &#8220;safety concerns,&#8221; the Metro reports. It&#8217;s not clear what prompted the &#8220;concerns&#8221; but at least two million U.K. residents signed a petition begging May to call off the engagement out of fear that Trump could cause embarrassment to the Queen.
&#8220;Trump had also been expected to open the new US Embassy in London last February, but the plan was also abandoned because he was so unimpressed with the building&#8217;s &#8216;off location&#8217; and the &#8216;bad deal&#8217; behind it,&#8221; Metro continues.
Neither the White House nor Whitehall, the house in charge of solidifying the plans, would comment on the upcoming state visit, but Trump has spoken highly of Queen Elizabeth in previous interviews. Town &amp; Country reports that Trump holds the monarch in high esteem.
&#8220;I think she represents her country so well,&#8221; <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/queen-set-for-donald-trump-d-day-state-visit-in-june-mwzs7d7xf?wgu=270525_54264_15547499011663_5e1283643f&amp;wgexpiry=1562525901&amp;utm_source=planit&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_content=22278">Trump told media last year</a>. &#8220;If you think of it, for so many years she has represented her country, she has really never made a mistake. You don&#8217;t see, like, anything embarrassing. She is just an incredible woman.&#8221;

Queen Elizabeth Invites President Donald Trump For An Official State Visit To Celebrate 75th Anniversary Of D-Day

After weeks of criticism, Theresa May&#8217;s EU &#8220;Withdrawal Agreement&#8221; was wholeheartedly rejected by the U.K. parliament on Tuesday evening. With 432 MPs voting to reject the deal, this was the largest defeat for a sitting British government in history.
At this point, it is clear that a no-deal withdrawal is the only remaining viable option that will deliver the promise of Brexit. Those who advocate for a &#8220;softer Brexit&#8221;, the complete cancellation of Brexit, or a so-called &#8220;People&#8217;s Vote&#8221; are doing nothing but disrespecting the voice of the British public and the fundamental sanctity of democracy.
However, with tension rising as Britain marches towards its departure date from the E.U. on March 29th, Theresa May must be wary of a far greater threat &#8212; the danger posed by the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.
Despite facing a defeat of historic proportions, Theresa May has not resigned. Sensing blood in the water, Jeremy Corbyn condemned May&#8217;s continued failure, and tabled a vote of no confidence in the government. The Labour motion was narrowly defeated by a 19-vote margin on Wednesday evening, meaning that Theresa May survived as Prime Minister &#8212; for now.
While Brexit may seem confusing &#8212; or even boring &#8212; the continued failure of Theresa May could have a disastrous outcome. By remaining in power, it is unlikely that confidence in her as Prime Minister will improve, meaning that further votes of no confidence, or an eventual General Election, could mean that Jeremy Corbyn becomes the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A Prime Minister who would signal the return of mainstream anti-Semitism to Britain.
Many conservatives in the United States are understandably concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism within the Left. While it is deeply troubling that the Left continually fails to condemn anti-Semitic rhetoric from Democrats such as Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Keith Ellison, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, their bigotry pales in comparison to that of Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn embodies the worst elements of 21st-century &#8220;contemporary&#8221; anti-Semitism, hiding behind the thin veil of &#8220;anti-Zionism&#8221;. Under Corbyn&#8217;s leadership, anti-Semitism has spread like a virus within his Party, with Labour M.P. Frank Field stating that Labour leadership had become &#8220;a force for anti-Semitism in British politics&#8221;.
The Labour Party caused outrage in 2018 when they removed anti-Israel clauses from their code of conduct on anti-Semitism. In 2013, when describing British Zionist Jews, Corbyn stated that &#8220;having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don&#8217;t understand English irony&#8221;. As a result of growing and unhindered anti-Semitism, many Jewish and non-Jewish members of the Labour Party have resigned, turning their back on a party that used to represent their values.
Corbyn has called terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah his &#8220;friends&#8221;. He even laid a wreath at the &#8220;Cemetery of the Martyrs of Palestine&#8221; during an event commemorating members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, the group responsible for the murder and mutilation of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
The fact that Jeremy Corbyn could become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom should fill those who detest bigotry and racism with absolute terror. Despite clear evidence of anti-Semitism, support for Corbyn hasn&#8217;t wavered, with many even rejecting accusations as Zionist or Jewish smears.
Europe, including the United Kingdom, has a dark history when it comes to anti-Semitism. Theresa May must do everything she can to stop Corbyn from confirming the return of mainstream anti-Semitism to British shores. She has failed to deliver Brexit, and has ruined the reputation of the Conservative Party. If she does not resign, she is simply holding the door open for Jeremy Corbyn. A door which needs to remain firmly closed.

HAWORTH: May Versus Corbyn And The Return Of Western Anti-Semitism

British Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s plan to exit the European Union suffered a crushing defeat in the U.K. Parliament Tuesday afternoon &#8212; one of the worst defeats for a government proposal in recent history.
The U.K.&#8217;s government now has just three days to map out a plan of action, outlining how it will extricate itself from the European Union without throwing either the U.K.&#8217;s or the EU&#8217;s economies into a tailspin, or face a very uncertain future.
May&#8217;s withdrawl bill, which was written and neogtiated over the course of the last several weeks, in concert with a number of EU leaders and leaders from her own Conservative Party, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/theresa-mays-brexit-deal-has-suffered-the-worst-defeat-in">failed in Parliament by an astounding margin</a>, according to Buzzfeed News: 432 votes to 202. That is more than any other vote contested by the government since the early 1920s.
The vote set two other records: more than 400 legislators voted against a measure for the first time in recent history, and more than 100 members of May&#8217;s own Conservative Party abandoned their Prime Minister to vote against the deal.
The U.K. voted on whether to leave the European Union &#8212; or make a &#8220;British exit&#8221; or &#8220;Brexit&#8221; &#8212; back in 2016. &#8220;Leavers&#8221; outvoted &#8220;Remainers&#8221; by 51.9% to 48.1%, with an incredible voter turnout rate of approximately 71%. As a result, the U.K. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887">invoked what is known as &#8220;Article 50</a>&#8221; of the European Union charter, setting a two-year period during which May&#8217;s government would be required to construct an exit plan that culminated in the U.K.&#8217;s exit from the EU on March 29, 2019.
Over the course of the last several months, May and her government have negotiated a 500-plus page withdrawl agreement with the European Union, which includes a nearly 30 page outline of how the U.K. and the EU will handle relations with each other going forward. But on Tuesday, Parliament resoundingly rejected the deal, sending May and other members of Parliament to the drawing board in a race to come up with a new plan in just three days.
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/15/theresa-may-loses-brexit-vote-what-happens-next.html">There are a number of ways forward</a> if that plan never materializes. Parliament could create and vote on its own Brexit plan. The U.K. could unilaterally delay &#8220;Brexit,&#8221; even without the approval of the European Union. They could renegotiate May&#8217;s deal. They could exit on March 29, 2019, without any deal at all. The U.K. could even hold a second referendum on Brexit, though that is unlikely at this point.
For May, the road may be much shorter. Labour leader (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/jeremy-corbyn-anti-semitism-labour-britain.html">and noted anti-Semite</a>) Jeremy Corbyn has called for a &#8220;no-confidence&#8221; vote in May&#8217;s leadership,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-calls-vote-of-no-confidence-in-theresa-may-government-after-brexit-deal-defeat-2019-1"> according to Business Insider</a> &#8212; a move that could throw the United Kingdom into a general election several years ahead of schedule.
&#8220;Under terms of Fixed-term Parliaments Act, the House of Commons must hold a short debate on the no confidence motion on Wednesday before voting on whether to support the Labour leader&#8217;s move to oust the government,&#8221; BI reports. &#8220;For the motion to be successful, Corbyn would need support from a majority of MPs.&#8221;
A general election is a truly frightening prospect, particularly when it could end with Corbyn becoming prime minister. Fortunately, it appears the prospect of a Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn is so daunting that a large coalition of MPs have said they plan to keep the government intact, at least for now.
Theresa May is expected to speak on the Brexit defeat late Tuesday afternoon.

Brexit DISASTER: British PM Theresa May Suffers Crushing Defeat Over EU Exit

Brexit.
One word, with two syllables, which strikes fear into the hearts of British politicians. The aftermath of the 2016 referendum, where 17.4 million people voted to leave the European Union, seems to have brought the United Kingdom to its knees. Constantly described with terrifying apocalyptic language, it has become an increasingly divisive subject. With MPs set to vote upon Theresa May&#8217;s &#8220;Withdrawal Agreement&#8221; on January 15th, the Brexit theater of combat is ablaze with final arguments. Politicians jump erratically from topic to topic, whether it be the economy, the Irish border, or immigration, in a desperate attempt to rally support or garner opposition.
Unsurprisingly, the result of this political pandemonium is that Brexit appears to be deeply confusing. With March 29th, the current date of Britain&#8217;s official exit from the EU, drawing ever closer, politicians continue to disagree on whether Brexit will be successful or disastrous.
The truth is, however, that despite the heavy doses of confusion, aimlessness, and ineptitude that politicians have demonstrated since the referendum, Brexit is actually phenomenally simple. Unfortunately, until politicians begin to treat British citizens with respect rather than condescension, this level of simplicity will remain obfuscated by fearful and deceptive rhetoric.
The simple fact is that Brexit is a rejection of the undemocratic power of the European Union in favor of a return to complete British sovereignty, where every British law is wholly defined by British government and wholly enforced by British authorities. Any laws decided by external entities, such as the European Union, or any jurisdiction of external courts, such as the European courts, undermines British sovereignty.
Accepting sovereignty as a fundamental principle, and communicating this to the British citizenry, would mean that the success or failure of subsequent issues, such as the short-term economy, would become comparatively irrelevant. Sovereignty trumps all, and in the unlikely event that the apocalyptic predictions of the Remain campaign turn out to be true, sovereignty would still be the ultimate objective &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.&#8221;.
Unfortunately, rather than embracing reality with the return of sovereignty as the primary ideological objective, British politicians are driven by the desire to tell their citizens what they believe they want to hear, with promises regarding economic growth or the certainty of trade agreements. Promises are easy. The truth is hard.
Winston Churchill, the legendary wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War 2, stated that &#8220;Things are not always right because they are hard, but if they are right one must not mind if they are also hard.&#8221;. Until every law enforced in or upon the United Kingdom is entirely supported by a British democratic process, the simple fact is that sovereignty does not exist. British politicians are afraid because obtaining true sovereignty by escaping the EU will be very difficult, with short-term consequences which they find unpalatable.
Theresa May warned that failure to support her deal, which violates the essence of sovereignty, would result in the United Kingdom entering &#8220;uncharted territory&#8221;. Viewing this as a terrifying scenario, and one which should be avoided at all costs, is completely at odds with the core British spirit. If the price of regaining ultimate and complete sovereignty is that we must enter unchartered territory, then Britain should enter that territory with glee. Britain has forged into the unknown throughout its history, and to reject the desire to seek what is right over what is difficult would be to reject what it means to be British.
British politicians have a historical duty to deliver sovereignty for the citizens of the United Kingdom. We were once the country who was unafraid to stand alone in support of our principles. We are the country of Elizabeth I, who repelled the Spanish Armada. We are the country of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington, who prevented the Napoleonic Empire from engulfing Britain and the rest of Europe. Finally, we are the country of Winston Churchill, whose famous speech epitomized the British determination to fight for what is right in the face of an ultimate evil:
&#8220;We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,&#8221;
Instead of willingly living under the economic, legislative and judicial rule of an unelected political monster in the European Union (through which Germany has carefully secured unrivaled economic dominance), British politicians need to remember what made Britain great, and never surrender the fight for what is right over what is difficult.

HAWORTH: Brexit Is A Declaration Of Sovereignty. It’s That Simple.

European Union

United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May is facing an uphill battle Wednesday as she struggles to unite the U.K.&#8217;s Conservative Party behind her own leadership and fend off a &#8220;no confidence&#8221; vote that could send Parliament into chaos.
May has been trying to hold her coalition together for weeks as she works out an official &#8220;exit deal&#8221; from the European Union &#8212; required by the &#8220;Brexit&#8221; vote taken in 2017. But her fellow conservatives are concerned that the deal May struck with EU leaders is far too deferential and keeps the U.K. too closely tied with the EU.
May&#8217;s Brexit-supporting colleagues want a &#8220;clean break,&#8221; and they simply don&#8217;t see that coming from the current Prime Minister, <a href="https://apnews.com/6adf206d23e34b70b255f42c17d5079b">the Associated Press reports</a>.
Protests got heated within Parliament this week, and the U.K.&#8217;s government is said to be in &#8220;disarray,&#8221; as Members of Parliament struggle to figure out what to do next on Brexit. Conservatives want out of the European Union. Liberals want a second referendum that could overturn the first Brexit vote.
But everyone agrees that Theresa May has mismanaged the situation.
The situation became so bad Tuesday evening that 45 Conservatives &#8212; May&#8217;s own party &#8212; called for a &#8220;no confidence&#8221; vote in their leader. The vote would strip May of her leadership role and force Conservatives to come together to find a more suitable leader to strike the official Brexit deal.
It&#8217;s a risky move: if the &#8220;no confidence&#8221; vote fails, it could hamstring May in her negotiations with European Union leaders, since the &#8220;no confidence&#8221; vote would publicly exhibit a government-wide lack of trust in her capacity to do her duties, and could serve as a warning to other countries that May may not be in power for long.
If the vote succeeds, it could be days or weeks before the Conservatives finally elect a new leader, and the U.K. is due to depart from the European Union no later than the 29th of March. That means a deal would have to be inked between the U.K. and the EU around the end of January &#8212; and that&#8217;s already pushing it with May in place.
Either way, many members of the Conservative Party agree that the vote is embarrassing.
&#8220;&#8220;At one of the most pivotal moments for the U.K. economy in decades, it is unacceptable that Westminster politicians have chosen to focus on themselves, rather than on the needs of the country,&#8221; one high-ranking official told the AP.
The vote is expected to take place Wednesday evening &#8212; mid-day in the United States. In anticipation of a possible loss, May addressed some Conservative Party members Wednesday afternoon, pledging not to run for a second term during the U.K.&#8217;s official elections in 2022.
The late-term plea may have saved her. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/dec/12/tory-mps-trigger-vote-of-no-confidence-in-may-amid-brexit-uncertainty-politics-live">The Guardian reports</a> that May is expected to hold on to her office, though by a narrow margin, and with a mandate to get a much better deal on Brexit.
If May survives Wednesday night&#8217;s vote, she&#8217;ll have a chance to pass a draft Brexit deal through Parliament. If Parliament approves that draft deal, it then goes to the European Union&#8217;s parliament to ratify. If that&#8217;s a success, the U.K. will officially exit the EU on or around March 29th. If the draft Brexit deal does not pass Parliament, May must go back to the drawing board, either returning to negotiations with EU leaders, or setting Brexit back to a second vote.

British MPs Trigger Vote Of ‘No Confidence’ In Embattled Prime Minister Theresa May

In much the same way as President Donald Trump, Brexit is a delicate and divisive topic in the United Kingdom. 
Brutally fought between campaigns to Leave or Remain, the referendum, which decided whether the United Kingdom would become the first nation to withdraw from the European Union (EU), took place on June 23, 2016. David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister due to his support for the failed Remain campaign.
While the Leave campaign was fronted by several high-profile Members of Parliament (MP), such as Boris Johnson, many avoided the vacant position of Prime Minister, viewing it as a poisoned chalice. Theresa May, the Conservative MP for Windsor and Maidenhead, became Prime Minister on July 13, 2016, despite the fact that May passively supported Remain.
After over two years of negotiations, Theresa May presented the European Union with her government&#8217;s proposed Brexit deal. The draft agreement, which lays out the terms of the U.K.&#8217;s withdrawal from the EU and the format of its future relationship, was accepted by EU leaders. However, it has been badly received by many MPs in the United Kingdom, and before it can be implemented, the U.K. Parliament must decide whether or not to accept the agreement. The vote is scheduled for December 11, 2018. 
Given the depth and breadth of the EU&#8217;s influence and control, the draft withdrawal agreement is long and complex. The 585-page document has been widely criticized by supporters of both the Leave and Remain campaigns, and Theresa May has been personally attacked for her weak handling of the transition. Those who still oppose Brexit, known affectionately as &#8220;remoaners,&#8221; have argued against the continuation of proceedings in favor of another referendum known as the &#8220;People&#8217;s vote,&#8221; or for Brexit to be scrapped entirely. Many of their arguments are based on the failures of politicians to deliver on promises related to Brexit and Theresa May&#8217;s failure to guide the U.K.&#8217;s departure from the EU.
Their logic is hypocritical, flawed, and extremely dangerous. 
Firstly, the fact that politicians are criticizing the failure of other politicians to deliver on their promises is supremely hypocritical. For example, Nick Clegg, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats and a vocal opponent of Brexit, stated that &#8220;The people voted for Brexit on a bunch of promises,&#8221; despite the fact that Clegg rose to the position of Deputy Prime Minister in 2010 on the back of his own &#8220;bunch of promises&#8221; that never materialized.
Secondly, the &#8220;remoaners&#8221; are basing their arguments against Brexit on flawed logic. They are using the subsequent failure of Theresa May to implement Brexit as a reason to denigrate the decision to Leave. This is illogical, as past decisions are not made with the knowledge of future events. It is also irrelevant, as May&#8217;s failure to implement the decision does not mean that legitimate concerns in favor of Brexit are suddenly illegitimate. Valid concerns regarding trade, immigration, or sovereignty remain valid regardless of the handling of Brexit. A simple illogical analogy demonstrates this quite clearly:
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A person is violently attacked in their home by their abusive partner. Making their escape, they flee from their home, only to be hit by a bus. Therefore, the victim was wrong for leaving. 
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Brexit should serve as a warning to the United Kingdom, the United States and other world nations. The strength of democracy, which is based on the Greek term for &#8220;rule by people,&#8221; relies on the protection of the voters&#8217; decision. The attempt by &#8220;remoaners&#8221; to reject the will of the population by voting again (and again, and again, and again, &#8230;) until they obtain their desired result is nothing but an attempt to corrupt democracy itself. We saw this same dangerous attitude during the presidential and midterm elections, and it must be wholeheartedly rejected if democracy is to remain protected.
Dismissing the sanctity of democracy will only leave us vulnerable to authoritarianism. Instead of implementing the wishes of their citizens, politicians who disagree with this decision only have to sabotage its implementation. Then they can simply blame their ideological enemies for the failure, leaving them free to implement their own opposing policies. At that point, why even vote?

HAWORTH: Brexit, Theresa May, and Remoaners

CNN, ever desirous of disparaging President Trump, issued a tweet on Tuesday morning mocking Trump for referring to the incident in London in which a vehicle drove onto a sidewalk injuring three people before crashing into a barrier at the Houses of Parliament as a terrorist incident.
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President Donald Trump seizes on what he calls a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; in London, even though the incident is still in the early stages of investigation <a href="https://t.co/z2qEYHryeF">https://t.co/z2qEYHryeF</a> <a href="https://t.co/AatPX4wZsh">pic.twitter.com/AatPX4wZsh</a>
&#8212; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1029359745365356549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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But wait a gol-darned minute:
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The Latest: Police treat London crash as terrorist incident. <a href="https://t.co/AWOhztVFrG">https://t.co/AWOhztVFrG</a>
&#8212; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1029302653086564352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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British Prime Minister Theresa May even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34464/suspected-terror-attack-westminster-man-plows-car-james-barrett">referred to the incident</a> as a terrorist attack, stating, &#8220;The location of this attack was no accident. The terrorist chose to strike at the heart of our capital city, where people of all nationalities, religions and cultures come together to celebrate the values of liberty, democracy and freedom of speech.&#8221;

British Prime Minister’s Comment On Terror Attack Makes CNN Look Stupid

London

Terrorism

&#8220;Putin&#8217;s poodle Donald Trump branded a traitor and accused of treason after backing Russian leader over election meddling,&#8221; read the headline in the U.K.&#8217;s Mirror newspaper.
&#8220;The US president stunned his nation by turning on his own ­intelligence chiefs and insisted Moscow did not interfere in the 2016 election race, which he won,&#8221; said the subhed.
Germany&#8217;s Handelsblatt outlet called Monday&#8217;s meeting in Helsinki between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin a &#8220;summit of the autocrats.&#8221;
Spain&#8217;s biggest newspaper newspaper El Mundo read: &#8220;Trump surrenders to Putin after humiliating Europe.&#8221;
The Finnish newspaper Kauppalehti said, &#8221; Trump 0 &#8211; Putin 1,&#8221; while the French newspaper Le Monde touted Trump&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;weakness in front of Putin.&#8221;
On and on it went. And not surprisingly, American news outlets &#8212; so many of them liberal &#8212; piled on, declaring Trump a traitor and a lapdog of Putin.
Why U.S. media harangued Trump was obvious, but the world media&#8217;s motives were a little more complicated.
The bottom line, though, was simple: Trump had just finished a &#8220;Spank Europe&#8221; tour and their tuchases were all still smarting from their trip to the woodshed.
Trump&#8217;s trip to Belgium, England and Finland was a full-fledged smackdown by the U.S. president. At the NATO summit in Brussels, Trump told Europe in no uncertain terms that the United States would not keep paying for its defense. They&#8217;d better pony up their fair share or else.
In England, Trump slapped Prime Minister Theresa May for her wishy-washiness over Brexit, and he said May&#8217;s blueprint for leaving the European Union would &#8220;probably kill&#8221; future trade deals between the U.S. and the U.K.
In Helsinki, Trump sided with Putin over the allegations of Russian collusion during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, blaming past administrations for the U.S.&#8217;s terrible relations with Russia.&#8220;Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!&#8221; Trump said on Twitter.
Trump&#8217;s trip was fierce: NATO nations &#8212; pay up; Britain &#8212; smarten up; World &#8212; get off Putin&#8217;s back.
Like no diplomat before him (except for perhaps Ronald Reagan), Trump declared that America will not allow Putin&#8217;s annexation of Crimea or its aid to Syria&#8217;s Bashar al-Assad derail negotiations with Russia. Trump&#8217;s predecessor, Barack Obama, had vowed to talk to the world&#8217;s most despotic leaders, but ripped Putin every chance he got &#8212; until the Russian president no longer bothered with Obama at all.
In the end, the world just didn&#8217;t like an American president coming into Europe to say that he&#8217;ll put America First, that the free ride is over, that he won&#8217;t play by the same rules that have turned so many U.S. presidents into milquetoasts.
So it&#8217;s not surprising that their fannies are still smarting.

CURL: World Media Bashes Trump After U.S. President Takes Europe To The Woodshed

Europe

Vladimir Putin

President Trump sat down with editors and reporters from <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6766531/trump-may-brexit-us-deal-off/">The Sun</a> newspaper while in Brussels, ahead of his trip to London and Scotland.
What he said &#8212; or what The Sun claims he said, anyway, has set off a tsunami of criticism in England.
Trump said British Prime Minister Theresa May ignored his advice by opting to move ahead with a soft Brexit strategy. He also warned that doing so could endanger a trade deal with the United States.
&#8220;If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal,&#8221; he said, according to The Sun.
According to The Sun, Trump also:
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<li>Accused EU leaders of destroying its culture and identity by allowing in millions of migrants</li>
<li>Tore into London Mayor Sadiq Khan for not standing up to terrorists</li>
<li>Blamed Khan for spiralling crime in the capital</li>
<li>Insisted former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson would make &#8220;a great Prime Minister&#8221;</li>
<li>Denied once branding Theresa May a &#8220;bossy schoolteacher&#8221;</li>
<li>Maintained he would keep ties with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin despite the Salisbury Novichok poisonings</li>
<li>Demanded Britain and other Nato countries spend more on defence</li>
<li>Spoke of his sadness at feeling unwelcome in the capital by anti-Trump protesters</li>
<li>Claimed millions of Brits backed his policies</li>
<li>Told of his pride at taking wife Melania to meet the Queen</li>
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Hours after the interviews hit newsstands, Trump said the paper omitted praise he heaped on May.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t criticize the prime minister. I have a lot of respect for the prime minister and, unfortunately, there was a story that was done which was generally fine, but it didn&#8217;t put in what I said about the prime minister and I said tremendous things,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;Fortunately, we tend to record stories now so we have it for your enjoyment if you like it. We record when we deal with reporters. It is called fake news.&#8221;
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Trump Creates Waves In U.K. With Newspaper Interview He Now Calls ‘Fake News’

British Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s administration has imploded as two of her top four ministers have resigned over the last 24 hours to protest her soft Brexit plan which will keep Britain with strong economic ties to the European Union.
<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/britains-brexit-minister-steps-down-blow-may-002502081.html">AFP</a> reports:
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May&#8217;s Brexit plan &#8212; agreed by the cabinet on Friday in the hope of unblocking negotiations with Brussels due to resume on Monday &#8212; has now cost her two of her top four ministers, throwing her administration and authority into turmoil.
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The first blow came on Sunday when Brexit minister David Davis declared that he could not support May&#8217;s plan, calling it &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;It seems to me we&#8217;re giving too much away, too easily, and that&#8217;s a dangerous strategy at this time,&#8221; Davis <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/08/uk/brexit-secretary-david-davis-resignation/index.html">said</a> on Monday.
The second blow to May&#8217;s administration came on Monday when Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigned, leaving &#8220;May badly exposed at the top of a government unable to unite over Britain&#8217;s biggest foreign and trading policy shift in almost half a century,&#8221; <a href="http://news.trust.org/item/20180709141111-vru27">Reuters</a> reported.
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I am proud to have served as Foreign Secretary. It is with sadness that I step down: here is my letter explaining why. <a href="https://t.co/NZXzUZCjdF">pic.twitter.com/NZXzUZCjdF</a>
&#8212; Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1016373750395277313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The resignations have shattered the public&#8217;s trust in May, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/britain-turns-against-theresa-may-on-brexit-sky-data-poll-finds-11431288">Sky News</a> reports:
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Some 64% of Britons do not trust her to run Brexit negotiations &#8211; up 31 percentage points from when we last asked the question in March 2017.
Just 22% now trust her to get the best possible deal, down 32 points from last year, with 14% unsure.
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The people&#8217;s overwhelming distrust in May, coupled with the loss of two of her top officials, could trigger a &#8220;no-confidence vote&#8221; against May.
A no-confidence vote from a Member of Parliament (MP) means that the MP believes the Prime Minister is no longer fit to continue serving in their government role.
&#8220;If a new government with the support of the majority of MPs cannot be formed with 14 calendar days, Parliament is dissolved and an early General Election is triggered,&#8221; <a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/no-confidence-vote-theresa-may/">iNews</a> notes.

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