TIME TO ABANDON SHIP |
Gisela Stuart and Douglas Carswell have announced they will not be standing for re-election for parliament in the 2017 General Election. This adds to the growing number of prominent Brexit campaigners that seem to be leaving their jobs and have no intention of being a part of the huge and immensely complex negotiations involved in leaving the EU.
I don't understand how you can be so passionate about something in politics, yet decide you can't be bothered to finish what you started yourself. Either they're lazy, believe someone else can do a better job, or scared of the actual impact Brexit will have and have no intention of accepting any blame of how negotiations end. They are distancing themselves from the process of leaving, after being so in love with the idea of separating from the EU.
Several prominent figures on boths sides of the debate have decided to call it a day as an MP, for differing reasons.