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She's no longer in charge of implementing Brexit, but who would want to be in charge of implementing Brexit?
* FPTP: TMay's deal
* AV: Customs Union
- Condorcet: TMay's deal subject to Remain vs Leave referendum
- Approval voting: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://twitter.com/AlexInAir/status/1110236613609705474
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15301859
Would it be whipped?
Have the ERG worked out they've lost yet or is that still much for them to grasp? Idiots doesn't come close.
And the assumption that May will lead the Tories into any early GE should nicely wake up PB Tories this fine morning?
Finally, a triumph for democracy as the People's Representatives seek to overturn the decadent populism of the electorate.
Given how things have progressed generally, I anticipate the worst possible outcome (probably leaving in name only, with a campaign to rejoin and be shackled into the single currency. Oh, and the rise of the far right).
Problem with May's deal is that just as she wins over her extremists she is losing Labour and Tory remainer support. They now have alternatives to root for.
Phew!
Truly, we are in the end times.
So not so easy to whip, although both Labour and Tory are struggling to relinquish the habit.
(I know that’s about France but it’s still my favourite bit of political knockabout, along with Distaeli’s “range of exhausted volcanos”)
If Brexit is a spasm of English Nationalism, is Revoke a spasm of English internationalism?
Or something else?
"the clash between Parliament's preference and Government preference."
There's something far worse coming. It's the clash between voters' given preference and the MP's preference, despite the MP's lying promises. They promised to honour the referendum result. You might remember that - it was all over the newspapers not long ago.
By comparison the LDs' promise about tuition fees was less brazen. At least they had the excuse of the coalition where they were only the junior partner. And this time, they were honestly anti-democratic from the beginning.
The EU and our future in it is now irrelevant by comparison. MPs are forever tarnished by this.
Expenses … a mere bagatelle. The world looks on and grimaces.
I mean BMW didn’t force Merkel to give us a good deal nor did we hold all the cards.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/25/british-airways-flight-dusseldorf-lands-edinburgh--mistake
Those days of December when they celebrated having seen off Boris must seem a long, long time ago. And for what? Power. Employment. Party. All heading down the pan.
"Which is why there will probably be a referendum at the end, to confirm the voters' preference."
The result of that referendum is irrelevant. It's the simple five-letter word that will endure. That is TRUST.
They cannot be trusted to keep their word, and once that is gone, we may as well have dictatorship. Manifestos are just words, solemn promises are only hot air. They knowingly lie and they make no apology for it. We can carry on voting but if you don't know who they represent, they may as well be cardboard cut-outs.
That said, I am now totally lost. There is no logic to any of this. All I do know is that I cannot think of another PM who has been so humiliated and emasculated, and remained in office.
Rampant hypocrisy award goes to McLaren, who objected to the last cost cap plan, back when they had loads of money and won stuff:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/47691443
McLaren chief executive officer Zak Brown said: "We need a level playing field, not just for McLaren but for the entire grid. That means fair revenue distribution. I don't think that means equal."
As it were.
"an escape route from Brexit, independence from England."
Achieved by an independence referendum? Only if the UK MPs approve.
How sweet and trusting these Scots are.
Have a good morning.
I’ve said before that the only way out of this I can see is Norway, as it is the option which takes away the least from those who voted against Brexit, while still complying with the terms of the referendum vote.
And it is a stable solution, which retains the potential for future movement in either direction, without requiring it.