If ever the statement that "Revolutions devour their children" applied to British politics it does so now. Brexit has devoured its father—David Cameron—and now its daughter Theresa May—as both prime ministers retreat from public life and office destroyed by their own party’s pathological hate of European partnership. In 1948 Winston Churchill declared: “We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think as much of being a European as of belonging to their own native land, and that without losing any of their love and loyalty of their birthplace. We hope wherever they go they will truly feel ‘Here I am at home. I am a citizen of this country too.’” A decade earlier in the London mass-selling News of the World in 1938, Churchill said Britain should promote “every practical step which the nations of Europe may take to reduce the barriers which divide them and to nourish their common interests and their common welfare...

Theresa May has built-in swivels in the heels of her colorful kitten shoes she adores wearing. Jeremy Corbyn is far less a fashionista but he too knows how to pirouette and change tack in Britain’s endless Brexit ballet. More than 70 times since she became prime minister, May has told the House of Commons, TV interviewers and all journalists who ask that under all circumstances Britain would be leaving the EU on March 29 this year. Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn has kept a steady distance from the idea of Labour endorsing a new referendum on Britain 's departure from Europe. This despite clear opinion poll majorities against leaving the EU and growing evidence of criminal corruption involving financing from dark forces in rightist American circles and the Kremlin the 2016 plebiscite. Instead the Labor leader has insisted on the need for a new general election, in which then a Labour-led renegotiation would still keep Britain out of the EU but via some alchemy create what he has...