Left-wing firebrand Arthur Scargill compares Theresa May to WWII appeaser Neville Chamberlain for ‘betraying’ Brexit voters with Florence speech
Veteran of the miners’ strike said the PM should resign after committing Britain to Brussels rule until at least 2021 in her Florence speech
LEFTIE firebrand Arthur Scargill has compared Theresa May to World War Two appeaser Neville Chamberlain for “betraying” Brexit voters.
The veteran of the miners’ strike said the Prime Minister should resign after committing Britain to Brussels rule until at least 2021 in her Florence speech.
He said Britain now faced at least another four years with unlimited EU immigration.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the leader of new “Socialist Labour Party” said: “Theresa May’s announcement that the Government is prepared to stay in the EU until 2021 is a betrayal on a par with Chamberlain’s sell out to Hitler and a betrayal of the will of the people.
“Britain is stuck for at least four years with free movement, the customs union, the single market and control by an unelected body in Brussels.
“The British people voted to leave the EU, not to continue paying £10 billion a year, with a trade deficit of £60 billion a year. Mrs May should resign for her act of treachery.
“The British people will never forgive her.”
It comes as the Brexit Secretary David Davis is getting ready to meet the president of the European parliament as the fourth round of talks draw to a close.
Antonio Tajani has an influential role as the parliament must ratify any exit deal hammered out between the EU and UK.
The meeting was described as a "private" one by officials, and comes the day before the latest set of Brexit withdrawal negotiations conclude in Brussels tomorrow.
The talks follow European Council president Donald Tusk's insistence that not enough progress had been made on separation issues like citizens' rights and the Irish border to allow a move towards trade negotiations.
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However, Mr Tusk said he was more optimistic about the situation since Prime Minister Theresa May's speech in Florence in which she outlined the UK's route to Brexit.
He said there was a more "realistic" attitude in London now and the UK had accepted it could not have its Brexit "cake and eat it".