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1、v1.0 可编辑可修改1 apparent that, re leading uss in a bad dream, I have the sensation of falling. We British are on our way We are heading for national only this week that the apparent that, re leading uss in a bad dream, I have the sensation of falling. We British are on our way We are heading for nation

2、al only this week that the scales fell of small observations, but a nascent worry became a conscious horror. in a group and only in broad outline what they would not offer David Cameron four months after the referendum, the Brexiteers humiliation, from my eyes. Perhaps it was just mounting in the un

3、conscious mind until For me the horror who follow politics closely. Reading what the plan for have nobodys in charge, the heap the Were heading for the biggest crisis since SuezMatthew ParrisIt is horribly no idea where theyAto making the biggest screw-up since Suez and, somewhere deep down, the new

4、 governing class know it. and nobody knows what to do. This Brexit thing is out of control.It was really the accretion broke the surface: dawned after a long discussion runes, we were trying to work out Brexit might be. Scenarios were conjured, possible game-plans stress-tested.But every guess, foll

5、owed through, led fast into the nettles. As the dial moved towards the “soft ” end of the spectrum of possibilities we repeatedly faced the tiger that the Leave camp so foolishly and cynically rode: immigration. Why ever would our EU partners offer us, post-Brexit, 2 “soft ” Brexit that we former Re

6、mainers crave will attached to the go-it-alone s economy might prove: but we But when you do, the path of“soft ” Brexit that we former Remainers crave will attached to the go-it-alone s economy might prove: but we But when you do, the path of legislative Article even though John Major did risk a Com

7、mons But after Article or button has been pushed, reversing the process is practically t like the Brexit plan that emerges, it by attaching and on no terms at all if s terms.t want t have any.solution scrutiny 50 next March (and therefore 50 is triggered conditions, came crowding in. None of us knew

8、 and the Lisbon it can even throw the bill beforeAnd what makes anyone think that in the new antagonisms generated across the Channel by our referendum result, the anyway still be on offerAnd as the dial moved towards the “hard”end of the spectrum, the massive economic uncertainties how realistic th

9、e fears of a serious hit to Britaindid know that for many in the Leave camp, and for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, those fears were real.Then we thought about parliament. crumbles beneath your feet. Before she triggers before negotiations even begin) Theresa May is adamant she cannot show parliam

10、ent her hand, and one does see her point debate before he went to Maastricht. treaty s ejectimpossible.After March, parliament can say it doesncan amend the Great Repeal Bill out; but still we must leave the EU within two years parliament rejects the governmentBesides, a darker possibility occurs: t

11、hat the real reason Mrs May doesnto consult parliament on her plans is that she doesnBayonet the wounded all you like, Leavers, but the nation waits to hear your plans3 We were to stay on one road or take the We were to stay on one road or take the other. Yet nearly four months later at the crossroa

12、ds, and where it should lead. The referendums sense of purpose campaigners against are prominent among those Allow me to switch the gender in my take on Benny -heroic Edwardian poem:t be done;t be done “What the * ”we were saying to each other. The scales, arguing about why we decided to take the th

13、e EU Daniel Hannan MEP; columnists such as It was widely felt that the referendum would be a crystalline moment of national decision. we find ourselves still road less travelled has evaporated and we can see what always lay beneath: competing visions for Britain, each unable to command a majority by

14、 itself. They were pooled in the word Leave, and it took them as far as June 23.But no further. The differences now within the Brexit camp are at least as sharp as between them and some of the former Remainers. Some of the veteran and most stalwart Christopher Booker, Andrew Lilico and Iain Martin g

15、rowing queasy about where Brexit could lead.And from Mrs. May herself Silence. Hill s parody of a fauxThey said it couldnThey said she could never do it.So she took that job that couldnAnd she couldn t do it.Several of us emerged from that discussion among pundits this week, each with our own perspe

16、ctive, but all with the same response. We were looking at a very serious impending road accident. as I say, fell from my eyes.4 of his column yesterday railing against the lost hing we the vanquished could write. Edvard Munchand it tells Leavers, but the nation waits to of his column yesterday raili

17、ng against the lost hing we the vanquished could write. Edvard Munchand it tells Leavers, but the nation waits to hear your plans. Marmite, Japanese car bosses and the governor of the Bank of England, lashing “doom-mongers” and “naysayers”, the “international bankerslargest economy ” that you promis

18、ed would power us easily through are now even your duty to proceed with them. But we want to know what they “What. Are. You.the European referendum s The us so much. To our intense ” who Going. To. Do ”campaign attests more eloquently to For my friend, Times colleague and Leave campaigner, Michael G

19、ove, to spend every paragraph yes, every paragraph side that suppressed panic than anytScream hovered over his words.The Freudians call it displacement activity, disquiet we find the victors, hollow-cheeked, still stalking the battlefield, kicking irritably at corpses, months after their war was won

20、.Bayonet the wounded all you like, You have the baton. Where are you going to runBlaming The Guardian, blaming The Times, blaming fat British businessmen, blaming golf, out at the would “talk our country down”, as though the strong fundamentals of “the worlds fifth-candles in the wind, snuffable by

21、a handful of weedy newspaper columnists . . . blaming everyone and everything but your own lack of an agreed plan, is futile.Yes, we Remainers lost the referendum. Yes, we messed up the campaign. Yes, we failed to understand public discontent. Yes, we concede that you are now the pilots.The initiati

22、ve is yours. We await your proposals and we accept your right (as I have written) are. How do you plan to make this thing work Michael Gove began his column with three short sentences: “Take. Back. Control. ”I can reply with one: “How”Or perhaps in the same vein: 5 grows that none of you has the gro

23、ws that none of you has the foggiest. against “them”mightily because the people s anger will And if that s from that assumption. But now youre in charge. Youre not We ask because the suspicion true then you have betrayed the trust of 17 million people who thought you knew. Before the referendum you

24、assumed the mantle of “us”in a revolt and profited Us any more: you re Them, the new Establishment, the powers that be. You are the experts we were enjoined to scorn. So scream be terrible.6 lead for counter terrorism or firearms. -general, tion on anyone who is owned weapons, because 800 legitimate

25、 “Youve got some very bright, determined, clearlead for counter terrorism or firearms. -general, tion on anyone who is owned weapons, because 800 legitimate “Youve got some very bright, determined, clearyou do get gang members, criminals, policing, The terrorists called for people to tip “cavalier ”

26、 about the way they store firearms -thinking people people who are already said yesterday that were thwarted because of tight go missing every year. There gun laws and Terror groups seek weapons to stage Paris-style atrocityESTELLE SHIRBON/REUTERSTerrorists have tried to acquire mass casualty weapon

27、s to carry out Paris-style atrocities in half of the recent plots foiled by counterterrorism police.Mark Rowley, the national five of ten plots uncovered in the past two years involved attempts to obtain explosives the protection afforded by being an island, he said.Mr Rowley was speaking at the lau

28、nch of a public appeal, in conjunction with the National Crime Agency, to try to stop both illegal and legal weapons falling into the hands of terrorists.Concerns have been heightened amid a record level of gun seizures in London and similar spikes across a number of cities.Mr Rowley and Lynne Owens

29、, the agencys directoroff the authorities if they knew someone trading illegal weapons.They also want informalegally are additional concerns about the 750 armed criminal gangs who might be persuaded to supply firearms to terrorists if they were the highest bidder.Mr Rowley said: who buy into and ful

30、ly commit and are drivers of Daesh Islamic State propaganda and terrorism, and then 7 people causing problems in communities who perhaps get given a more linkspeople causing problems in communities who perhaps get given a more links are an issue that concerns us and we have seen evidence ”the supply

31、 of guns has “never been a more significant ”and expressed concerns about terrorists we believe we hold an advantage, ”she said. “There is low availability firearms ”Intelligence weapons smuggled through east Europe still “Criminal networks, who think nothing about who they sell route by which extre

32、mist groups will try to access rope”Organised using the “dark web”to secure in the UK compared with European and international Service presented partners but a angry, difficult clear purpose for their violence by a terrorist ideology, whether they pick that up on the streets or in prison.“Those gang criminality of it potentially linking firearms into terrorism.Ms Owens said that disrupting priorityarms,“Currently of illegal it is not an advantage that we take for granted, and to maintai