Excitement mounts, ominous violins quiver towards crescendo, the tortuous path of Brexit is nearing a decisive turn in the road with key votes next week at Westminster. Or so they tell us. Except the great silent majority is so beyond bored by the whole botch up, they aren’t listening anymore.
The latest poll says 55% would now vote to remain, which has probably gone up since the leak of the doomsday no-deal scenario with the UK running out of food and medicine within two weeks. And a French lawyer has managed to get an EU court date on July 5 agreed to argue the EU referendum was illegal because it excluded ex-pats living in the EU – with the hope of annulling the negotiation and forcing a new referendum enfranchising the excluded Britons. It sounds a stretch and almost certainly is, but it would solve several problems, Ireland and Scotland amongst them if he succeeds. And the ‘moonshine’ brigade wouldn’t be able to tell the same lies on a rerun. Not that the EU are exactly covering themselves in glory or being too sympatico, but it is hugely more complicated than anyone ever suggested. David Cameron should be locked in the Tower for not having put a sensible threshold of 55 or 60% for a decision this important.
The Theresa May government chart is lamentably short on astro-info for the make-or-break votes next week. Way down in the midpoints there is a lucky tr Pluto opposition Jupiter/Uranus as well as a convulsively-nervous Uranus conjunct the Sun/Neptune, which leads to weakness, illness or an emotional crisis.
Both the government chart and Theresa May’s own are drifting along in an elusive, slippery, impractical Neptunian haze into next year. Mind you the EU negotiator, Michel Barnier, looks in no better a state with tr Pluto square his Neptune and conjunct his Capricorn Sun till late 2018; with tr Neptune conjunct his midheaven from April 2019 into 2020.
September/October this year could be more fraught since Theresa May looks more bamboozled than ever at that point; and is in some turmoil with Olly Robbins, the UK civil servant, who is doing the heavy lifting in Brussels.
Michael Gove, now topping Tory popularity polls for reasons unknown as a replacement if she topples, isn’t making much headway over the next eighteen months.
The UK chart looks remarkably upbeat this month with tr Uranus square the 10th house Jupiter, returning in September and early 2019. Though the Cancer Solar Eclipse in July opposition Pluto will rattle the UK’s 10th house Moon, signifying the ruling classes. And the other Leo Solar and Aquarius Lunar will also be colliding with various Fixed planets on the UK chart, so there will be challenges around.