{"id":392997,"date":"2019-01-16T04:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/britons-will-suspect-deep-state-plot-if-brexit-is-delayed-video-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-01-16T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T03:21:09","slug":"britons-will-suspect-deep-state-plot-if-brexit-is-delayed-video-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/britons-will-suspect-deep-state-plot-if-brexit-is-delayed-video-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Britons will suspect \u2018deep state plot\u2019 if Brexit is delayed (VIDEO) \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/thumbnail\/5c3df9c4dda4c8bf3b8b4627.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        With the withdrawal date at the end of March looming large Boris Johnson says Britons will suspect a \u201cplot by the deep state to kill Brexit\u201d if the UK\u2019s exit from the European Union is delayed. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The former foreign secretary and current Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip said if the country fails to reach an agreement by the March 29 deadline, Britons will believe there has been a conspiracy to undermine their Brexit vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I don\u2019t think we can seriously contemplate delaying Article 50, because, after two-and-a-half years of procrastination, the public would accuse us in this place of deliberately setting out to frustrate their wishes<\/em>,\u201d Johnson said in a passionate speech to the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"media__youtube-frame lazyload\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PLrGXJ6P6aQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/448864-brexit-defeat-may-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE: What\u2019s next for Brexit &amp; Britain if UK parliament votes \u2018no\u2019 on Theresa May\u2019s deal?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>They would conclude that there was some plot by the deep state to kill Brexit. That is what many people would conclude<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/448830-brexit-vote-theresa-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predictions estimate<\/a> that May will lose Tuesday night\u2019s crucial vote on her withdrawal deal by an overwhelming majority. Boris went on to say that \u201cif and when\u201d the deal is voted down, the cabinet must \u201cnot continue to flog this dead horse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Instead of another fig leaf from Brussels, I hope the Government will come back to this place with a plan that is, in fact, the Prime Minister\u2019s original plan and she would go back to her principles as outlined at Lancaster House<\/em>,\u201d he said, referring to May\u2019s speech in January 2017 which set out the government\u2019s negotiating position at that time.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/448855-gove-brexit-vote-game-thrones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">&#8216;Winter is coming\u2019: Gove warns of GOT-style apocalypse if crucial Brexit vote fails<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/xxs\/5c3dcfdafc7e93da1a8b45a1.jpg 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/xs\/5c3dcfdafc7e93da1a8b45a1.jpg 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/thumbnail\/5c3dcfdafc7e93da1a8b45a1.jpg 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/m\/5c3dcfdafc7e93da1a8b45a1.jpg 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/l\/5c3dcfdafc7e93da1a8b45a1.jpg 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/article\/5c3dcfdafc7e93da1a8b45a1.jpg 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/xxl\/5c3dcfdafc7e93da1a8b45a1.jpg 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a hugely important day for British politics Johnson\u2019s deep state remarks aren\u2019t even the most dramatic statement made by a prominent politician in the run up to the crucial vote.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Secretary Michael Gove <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/448855-gove-brexit-vote-game-thrones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> Britain will resemble a zombie apocalypse if the vote is unsuccessful. Referencing Game of Thrones, Gove said if the deal fails tonight, \u201c<em>in the words of Jon Snow, \u2018winter is coming\u2019.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that a vote to reject the deal would \u201c<em>damage<\/em>\u201d British democracy and cause \u2018Leave\u2019 voters to feel like their wishes have been disregarded.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/448872-boris-johnsion-brexit-deep-state\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the withdrawal date at the end of March looming large Boris Johnson says Britons will suspect a \u201cplot by the deep state to kill Brexit\u201d if the UK\u2019s exit from the European Union is delayed. The former foreign secretary and current Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip said if the country fails to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":393000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}