Hell's Highway "Diario The Capital of Mar del Plata

by Jorge Elías

Shame after embarrbadment, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, will have thought as President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, his counterpart in the complex negotiations on Brexit in Brussels: "I was wondering what would be the special place reserved in hell to those who promoted Brexit without having a plan to carry it out. "Listening to Jean-Paul Sartre, May could have answered:" The hell is the others ". The clean and the foreigners. The others, among whom the Conservatives are not lacking, were on the verge of a contentious divorce from the European Union in the House of Commons.

May saved the skin by only four voices. It was the road to hell. Moral: neither Brexit for bad, nor Brexit for good. The agreement with the European Commission had been abandoned in the same area. A bad Brexit, dreamed by former Chancellor Boris Johnson, implied the withdrawal of the United Kingdom not only from the European Union, but also from the common market and from the customs union. A mild solution, such as that proposed by May, envisaged a free trade and freedom of movement area for citizens on both sides of the Channel, but did not solve a key issue: the border between Ireland and the EU. ) and Northern Ireland. (United Kingdom). Vital for Brussels and Dublin after the fragile peace accords of 1998.

The hot flashes in May coincided with Brussels' disappointment after two years of fruitless negotiations. In London, wear and tear has so affected the May party that its predecessor, David Cameron, wanted to save with the 2016 referendum without repairing the collateral damage, while the Labor Party, that of Jeremy Corbyn, remained stuck in the order of the elections is expected to end with the May government and the call for a second referendum which, in reality, delegitimizes the original (with an adjusted result: 52 against 48% in favor of Brexit ).

The alleged concessions of the European Commission, announced in May after its last meeting with Tusk, have not convinced. Protection or protection at the Irish border until 31 December 2020 was in doubt. Two documents, one of 585 pages, the one of withdrawal, and the other of 26, that of the political declaration, were insufficient before the detractors of the Brexit by the good or the sweet, identified by the acronym BINO (Brexit In Name Only, those who intend to impose a Brexit on their measure, as if it were the best solution for a divorce in which, beyond the exaltation of nationalism, pay the one who breaks, as always .

In the aftermath of the hell of Brexit, 4.4 million people are on hold, 3.2 million Europeans in the UK and 1.2 million Britons on the continent, as well as thousands of They do not know what their legal status will be. The legal status that has questioned the UK's general attorney, Geoffrey Cox. His report, before the first vote, demolished May's arguments: "The legal risks remain unchanged". Technical problems from the fight in the background. That of politicians who, like Dr. Fausto, have asked Mephistopheles what a demon does in his room, in the enclosure and not in hell.

(*): Journalist, directs the international portal of information and badysis El Ínterin, is conductor of Radio Continental and Argentine public television.