Melanie Phillips has pretty much nailed every issue on the head here regarding Brexit, the West and the World; this is the crisis we are facing and we have a major role to play in providing hope for the future.. not just for us, but for the world:

‘In 2016, the British voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. The withdrawal deal subsequently struck with the EU by UK Prime Minister Theresa May was widely considered so atrocious it was massively defeated in Parliament.

When the EU made certain concessions this week, MPs decided that they weren’t worth the paper on which they were written. On Tuesday evening, MPs therefore heavily defeated Mrs. May’s deal for the second time.That left the legal default position of departing with no deal.

On Wednesday evening, amid uproar in the House of Commons, MPs voted not to leave with no deal under any circumstances. Yetlast year they passed an act of parliament committing the UK to leave the EU on March 29, whether or not withdrawal terms had been agreed.

So they have now voted against themselves, the law they passed and the British people – while coming up with no agreed alternative, and with Mrs. May apparently intending to attempt yet again to try to force her deal through parliament. Cue political meltdown.

The fundamental reason for the impasse is that most MPs want to remain in the EU. They are therefore at odds with the electorate, whose fury over this perceived coup against the people is hard to exaggerate…

The crisis has the capacity to destroy both the Conservative and Labour parties and reshape British politics. Pitting parliament against the people, it also risks terminally alienating them from democracy altogether….. It is a titanic civilizational clash between two fundamental world-views.

The first seeks to defend the Western nation based on its discrete and particular history, language, religion, culture, and ethical values drawn from the Hebrew Bible and Christianity: a national identity expressed through laws passed by a democratically elected and sovereign parliament.

The second wants to destroy all that and replace it by a new world order under which the Western nation is superseded by trans-national laws and institutions, national borders are erased and biblical morality replaced by ideology – specifically, identity politics, moral relativism and multiculturalism….

The Brexit battle also shows us that, between two non-negotiable world-views, there can be no compromise. One side must defeat the other. Any “compromise” is in fact a disguised surrender…..

All over the West, battle is now fully engaged to save national and cultural identity. Brexit was its first front, and has in turn fuelled revolts against universalism in mainland Europe and the US. If Brexit is halted, that defense of Western civilization will be badly damaged…

Britain’s “Remainers,” on the other hand, bring irresistibly to mind those Israelites in the Exodus who cried out that they were so terrified they would die in the desert, they would rather remain slaves in Egypt.

But faith and courage won out and the Jews became a nation of free people in their own land.

For a people to find its courage, however, it has to have leadership; and for that to be provided, a leader has to be convinced of his or her vision for the people being led…

Without Winston Churchill’s leadership in the Second World War, Britain would have fallen to the Nazis. But now Britain has no leadership to give its MPs the courage they need to march away from the pharaohs of Brussels.

It may take a modern miracle to save Brexit now – and with it, the last slim chance of British participation in the battle to save the West.’

https://www.melaniephillips.com/british-wilderness-brexit-crisis-explodes/

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