THE TORY government confirmed that it will accept all four amendments put by the Tory pro-Brexit MPs to the Chequers sell-out White Paper.
Prime Minister May yesterday insisted that there will not be a second referendum ‘under any circumstances’ and ‘there wasn’t going to be a snap election either’. The debate on the Chequers sell-out White Paper began yesterday late afternoon and continued late into the evening.
May categorically ruled out a second referendum after Tory ex-education secretary Justine Greening called for a fresh referendum on Brexit. She called for three options to be back on the ballot paper: the prime minister’s Chequers deal, staying in the EU or a clean break from Europe with no deal.
Junior Treasury minister Scott Mann became the ninth Tory Party MP yesterday to quit his post over the Chequers sell-out deal. Mann said: ‘I have examined the Brexit White Paper against the principles that people of North Cornwall upheld in terms of the referendum result, which namely are to take back control of our laws, our borders, our money, our fisheries and our agricultural policy. And I felt that I couldn’t properly scrutinise the government from the position of a PPS (Parliamentary Private Secretary).’ His resignation follows those of Tory Brexit secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Dave Wiltshire, secretary of the All Trade Union Alliance, said: ‘Parliament asked the people to decide on whether or not to leave the EU. The people decided to leave and it was up to Parliament to carry out the result of the referendum.
‘It’s no good MPs coming along and saying that Parliament is unable to decide to leave and because of that there should be a new referendum with three questions on it designed to secure a majority one way or another for staying in the European Union.
‘If Parliament cannot carry out the will of the people and is trying to impose its dictat on the people, it must be closed down by working class mass action. The people are the masters not Parliament. British workers won’t accept a parliamentary dictatorship over them. They want socialism and they want a workers government.
‘That is why what this country requires is that working people after this referendum carry out a socialist transformation of society. That is a socialist revolution.’
