British Minister on Brexit: 'F**k knows. I’m past caring.'
Today, 29 March, had been marked in the diary for months as, Brexit day - the day Britain was supposed to leave the EU.
1,010 days after the EU referendum, MPs voted against Theresa May's EU Withdrawal Agreement, including the Irish backstop, for the third time today.
Mrs May now has until April 12 to go back to Brussels with new proposals and seek a longer extension to the negotiation process or see the UK leave without a deal that day.
In short, people are pretty fed up, which was confirmed by Nicholas Watt, Political Editor with BBC Newsnight, who shared an anecdote from a member of May's cabinet.
Mr Watt said, on live TV: “In cabinet, I am picking up complete and utter despair. I said to one cabinet minister: "So why is the Prime Minister holding a vote when she's pretty sure she's going to lose?
“Using very strong language this cabinet minister said to me.
F*** knows! I'm past caring. It's like the living dead in here
“This cabinet minister said to me: "Theresa May is the sole architect of this mess. It is her inability to engage in the most basic human interactions that brought us here."
He went on to say that the Cabinet has totally broken down: “One side thinks X will happen. The other side think Y will happen. And the Prime Minister decides on Z.”
Newsnight’s @nicholaswatt has the TV moment of the year. Quoting a cabinet minister, asked why May is pressing ahead with a vote she knows she’ll lose: “Fuck knows. I’m past caring. It’s like the living dead in here.” pic.twitter.com/51zTUX9MwN
— Matt Wells (@MatthewWells) March 28, 2019
After the goings on in the House of Commons today, that pretty much sums it up, to be honest.
