Brexit: Right-wing anarchism

New Statesman

Roger Cohen in today's NY Times:

...The bottom line is simple: Brexit has been, is and will be a disaster for Britain. The 2016 vote was manipulated through lies. A country that has benefited from its 46-year participation in a union of more than a half-billion Europeans is drifting toward a self-amputation understood by few, opposed by the young, abetted by a dissembling anti-American Labour leader, driven by little-England Tory right-wingers holding the country for ransom, and, according to polls, no longer wanted by the majority.

Here are the odds in descending order of likelihood: An adjusted May accord secures parliamentary approval; the March 29 deadline is extended; no deal; a second referendum. Fight on! 

The best option, now that the country has sobered up, is to put Britain’s real future to a second people’s vote.

Later: Jeremy Corbyn: U.K.’s Labour Party to Back Second Brexit Referendum.