Following the decision early Thursday by the European Union to delay the U.K.'s departure for a second time, not much is clear about Brexit bar the certainty that the divisions in British society and in Parliament will remain.
The so-called "flextension" until Oct. 31 given to Britain to approve a Brexit withdrawal agreement will require the country to hold elections for the European Parliament on May 23 — provided the withdrawal agreement hasn't been passed by lawmakers.
Perhaps I'm a pessimist, but I think that an extension is just a way for the EU and British Remainers to ease Britain out of the pledge the British government made to its people that the Brexit referendum would settle the issue of EU membership finally, one way or the other.
Remainers and the EU assumed the issue would be settled the other way, and have obstructed the negotiations to create doubt and fear about exiting the EU, all to reach the point where a bare majority of British people will now accept the other way to settle the issue forever. With no more voting allowed.
And if another vote is held to confirm the original Brexit result, it will be for the sole purpose of reversing the original Leave vote. Are you so naive as to think that a second leave result will not result in more delay and obstruction and yet another vote in a couple years to verify that the British voters really want to leave the EU?
Only a vote to remain in the EU will be considered a final vote--no matter how many it takes.
And so with this delay the EU will renew the strength of its grip on Britain's throat. Rule of law and democracy will fail in the face of the proto-imperial EU's drive for ever closer union despite the wishes of all those warmongering peasants who don't know what is good for them anyway.
I hope I am wrong, but I think Britain will be crushed by this extension and absorbed into the EU for good.
Which will be a good lesson for any member state less powerful than advanced, prosperous, and nuclear-armed Britain that might wish to escape the imperial state being built in Brussels.
UPDATE: Remember that the only reason there is an Irish issue bedeviling Britain's exit is that the Irish were made to vote until they accepted the European Union.
It's business as usual for the EU.
