MPs prepared to avoid No Deal makes it harder for us to secure better Brexit

Ruddy idiots

THE pressure on Attorney General ­Geoffrey Cox to secure a better Brexit was unbearable even before mutinous Cabinet Remainers pulled the rug from under him.

What leverage does he have left in negotiating binding changes to the Irish backstop, now MPs seem prepared to avoid No Deal and postpone Brexit?

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Cabinet Remainers like Amber Rudd are guilty both of rank disloyalty and short-sighted stupidity[/caption]

This was all too obvious to Government minister George Eustice who quit yesterday glumly predicting our “final humiliation” and attacking MPs who refuse to respect the referendum result.

Remainers Amber Rudd, Greg Clark and David Gauke still insist they do. They will claim their rebellion against Theresa May — a cynical, calculated risk that she is too weak to sack them — was designed to make Brexiteers realise ­voting down her deal could kill Brexit.

It may have done that. But it wasn’t lost on Brussels either. And it has severely weakened our hopes of getting the one thing Brexiteers and the DUP need.

Cabinet Remainers are guilty both of rank disloyalty and short-sighted stupidity.

Left whingers

FOR a shining example of Remoaner madness, witness the negativity to Norway’s huge investment in post-Brexit Britain.

Its £740billion wealth fund is increasing its UK holdings because, like Qatar, it is sure we will thrive outside the EU.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund will continue to increase investment after Brexit

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To ex-Labour MP Chris Leslie, though, Norway is just hoovering up our assets on the cheap due to Brexit. Yet he would have been first to blame Brexit had Norway SOLD its UK investments.

Some politicians have simply abandoned reason. Their Remainia is religious.

Greedy Beeb

THE BBC should be allowed nowhere near its new “BritBox” service.

The supposed BBC/ITV rival to ­Netflix will require a reported £5-a-month subscription. Yet BBC shows are funded by licence-payers. Why should we pay more to see them again?

BBC is welcome to compete as a subscription service – but they have to scrap the licence fee first

Alamy

ITV’s involvement is fair enough. They’re a private firm. But the BBC loves acting like one, while enjoying a £4billion annual bung from TV owners extracted via threat of a criminal record.

Why should it be able to deploy that monstrous public subsidy against a brilliant private innovator like Netflix?

If it wants to compete as a subscription service, fine. But first scrap the licence fee.

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WE cannot recall a more woeful set of MPs.

Yet, without even a vote on it, they will trouser another inflation-beating 2.7 per cent pay rise to almost £80,000 a year.

That’s 21 per cent up since 2012. How many of us have seen anything like that?

It comes into force on April Fools’ Day. Sadly, it’s no joke.