THERE’S been a lot of talk about how history will judge Theresa May and this current UK Government.

Whatever happens to the UK after midnight on March 29 next year, and at the moment that is certainly anyone’s guess, this current Prime Minister and her Cabinet will be infamous for the decisions they made, their lack of preparation, the dramatic resignations, the U-turns and flip-flops, and their manipulation by a small section of their party which seemed to hold all the power – hell-bent on “splendid isolation” at any cost.

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It’s not the first time in-fighting in the Tory party has held the whole country to ransom. After all, isn’t this part of the reason we got into this mess in the first place, thanks to former PM, David Cameron, whose main reason for holding an EU referendum was in the hope of ending the fighting in Tory ranks once and for all. Look how that worked out. It’s like they are just programmed to cause division. And programmed to protect their own interests. Those leading the race to a no-deal Brexit will be just fine after March next year, with plenty of offshore investments to keep them warm at night when the rest of the country is struggling as our economy nosedives. It will be the people who voted Brexit in the first place that will suffer the most, hoodwinked by a Eurosceptic elite led by Johnson, Gove, Rees-Moog and Farage. I’m sure their bank balances look a lot healthier than the rest of the country’s. The I’m-alright-(Union)-Jack brigade.

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To add insult to injury, along with these cape crusaders, it seems that a lot of the Cabinet were up to their necks in Vote Leave, the campaign group at the heart of a police investigation into electoral fraud. Hardly setting a good example to the rest of the nation. I can just imagine a whole section in future fifth year Higher History, using this government and the Tory party as an example of how not to do democracy, of ideological belief gone mad, of faith over facts, ideas over evidence, ignorance over expertise. In that sense, it’s not even proper politics any more. Just a group of people making it up as they go along and taking shortcuts regardless of the law.

But history will also not be kind to other players in this Brexit circus. The Labour Party will pay dearly for their dereliction of duty, for their abject failure to effectively oppose while in opposition. The lowest point for them surely came last week, when certain members of their party went through the lobby with the Tories on the key customs vote.

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Their actions saved the PM from a leadership contest and most likely a General Election to boot. Once again, its heart over head, faith over reality, as these Labour MP’s put their own ideals before their constituents needs or democratic wishes. In this sense, they are no different from the Tory Brexiteers. And as for Jeremy Corbyn, despite the incredible revelations on Vote Leave, despite the humiliation of the PM’s Brexit plan by Trump, despite just about everything to do with Brexit, he’s failed over and over again to hold the Government to account. Should there be a collapse of May’s government, Corbyn isn’t going to stop Brexit. It would make no difference. Imagine that, no difference between a Labour or Tory government on the biggest constitutional crisis of our generation?

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Even the LibDems, the so-called party of Remain, seem to have forgotten how to do their job properly. How can it be possible to make yourself even more irrelevant? Fail to turn up for an important ballot that could have defeated the hard Brexiteers with votes that could have been used by Vince Cable, Tim Farron and Jo Swinson, but they weren’t there. Farron was off, most ironically, giving a lecture on what it means to be a liberal. Cable was at a “confidential political meeting somewhere else” , and Jo Swinson’s (who is blameless in this case as she is currently on maternity leave) voting partner, Brandon Lewis (now facing calls to resign) allegedly “forgot” or the whips “forgot” to remind him. So much for the pairing process. You couldn’t make it up.

The Jo Swinson/Brandon Lewis debacle highlights just how outdated and out of sync with the modern world our parliamentary system at Westminster is, how archaic and how out of step with women’s working needs even.

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Watching the ridiculously slow voting system throughout the EU Withdrawal Bill debates was painful too, leaving little time to discuss any of the important issues. If one good thing comes out of all this chaos and uncertainty about Brexit, reform of the House of Commons will be a good thing.

The SNP is consistently standing up for Scotland and holding the Tory government to account on every aspect of this Brexit bourach. But to no avail. Nothing seems to stop Brexit. Because everything is broken – the Tory party, the Government, the Labour opposition and the very parliament they all attend. We know what the answer is for Scotland. It’s staring us in the face. Beyond the contempt, beyond the disregard for democracy there is another way. Independence.