A short blank cheque is not an appropriate response. No doubt she would seek to cow her ministers and backbenchers into backing such a blank cheques. She will no doubt raise sinister threats to warn off the House of Lords - and the main opposition is led by a lifelong eurosceptic.
But too much is at stake.
A blank cheque would allow a small group of radicals who (like wolves in sheep's clothing) go under the misleading title of 'conservatives' - to achieve their aims of stripping away the rights of the British people. Rights at work, rights as consumers, rights as mothers and fathers, rights as people seeking the best for their families. Will British citizens living in other EU countries be cast adrift by their mother country? Will those who have contributed their labour, their skills, their entrepreneurship to the UK have their rights stripped?
If all Parliament does is to grant a blank cheque to the government, it will have failed us - so please - write/tweet/call your MP and demand as citizens that they represent you (and your fellow citizens) by ensuring that the process of withdrawal is done in a way that upholds our existing rights.
DO NOT UNDER-ESTIMATE the radical agenda of the Europhobes, or those that think Britains should 'know their place'. We owe it to the generations that fought for the rights and liberties we have held so dear to ensure that they aren't discarded in secret places.
J David Morgan
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