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.
“the great silent majority is so beyond bored by the whole botch up, they aren’t listening anymore.”
Never were truer words spoken. Even I, who is passionate about politics in general and my country, am bored stiff with this glacially slow process going nowhere. I am about as heartily sick of Brexit as I am sure the Americans are of Trump. There are evangelists on both sides (pro/anti-Brexit; pro/anti-Trump), but I think the great silent majority on both sides of the pond are heartily sick of the political spectacle and would dearly like the old dull days back.
On a slightly unrelated note, how is the EU and the European Parliament’s chart in particular looking in May 2019? I wonder if Brexit and the Italian government formation would have any discernable impact on the next European Parliament elections.
The first elected European Parliament met in Strasbourg on 11 July 1979, though I have not been able to track the time of the first sitting.
Totally agree with the point that Cameron should have out in some kind of threshold, but like it or not it is the will of the people (or those who bothered to vote) that we leave- I voted remain but it will do democracy no good at all if Brexit is thwarted and I would prefer that we now leave with as much dignity as we can muster.
Oh, the EU has never been a respecter of referendums. Ask the Irish, the Danes and the Greeks. I am surprised that we have gone so far down the route based on a referendum result.
I agree that from now on, for any major constitutional change, such as breaking up the Union, rejoining the EU, etc, the threshold needs to be higher than a mere 50%+1 of the number of people voting. It could be set as either 60%+ of people voting or a percentage (40%-45%) of the total electorate.