Opinion: There are no good options on offer in the U.K.'s most ghastly of winter elections
LONDON — There are no good options on offer in the U.K.'s most ghastly of winterIn the blue corner: a Conservative Party stuffed with Union Jack-waving hard Brexiteers led by a mendacious showman who promises a break from Britain’s biggest trading partner followed by a “best in class” comprehensive free-trade deal with the EU, all within the next 12 months. If you believe that, there’s a bridge he wants to sell you in Brooklyn.
What is the least-worst option between Boris Johnson’s bombastic false certainties about Britain’s rosy future outside the EU and Jeremy Corbyn’s deceptive claim to be able to negotiate a better deal, keeping the U.K. closer to the EU while restricting freedom of movement for workers from Europe?they know they cannot deliver. As a voter, your only hope is that each is lying and doesn’t intend to implement these electoral promises, which doesn’t exactly buttress faith in democracy.
To paraphrase Johnson’s hero Winston Churchill, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. It would only be the end of the beginning. Or as former Labour Europe Minister Denis MacShane puts it, the beginning of "Britons would awake with a hangover on February 1 to a future shrouded in a fog of lies and wishful thinking.
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