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Do you think there will be a Deal or No Deal?


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If we do (somehow) end up involved in the elections, it'll be interesting to see what stance pro-Brexit types take on it. Will they advocate a boycott, because we're obviously meant to be leaving, or will they try to win some seats anyway, not wanting to lose any EU influence we have until we're officially out?
as if Farage is going to risk another paycheck
 
If we do (somehow) end up involved in the elections, it'll be interesting to see what stance pro-Brexit types take on it. Will they advocate a boycott, because we're obviously meant to be leaving, or will they try to win some seats anyway, not wanting to lose any EU influence we have until we're officially out?
No, they'll try to use them as a de facto second ref and hope the usual turnout disparity happens.
 
Did you miss the part where the EU workers simply stopped coming once their rights and futures were no longer guaranteed? The damage to him is already done.

I find the same in my industry, IT.
We cant get them because there are no more qualified available, that's we we look to SA, Brazil, Mexico, Russia etc. Oh, they are also non EU members.
 
We cant get them because there are no more qualified available, that's we we look to SA, Brazil, Mexico, Russia etc. Oh, they are also non EU members.

The bolded part makes no sense, can you please explain what you mean?

We can already look at those countries, nothing prevents us from bringing people in on working visas atm. Apart from the visa process costing time and money that is. And somehow Dave from the C4 docu didn't manage to plug the gap that was left with workers from those nations.
 
Do you really think he is the one that has to move??? it's her deal that's been rejected not his ffs.

Umm, for a start his has been rejected three times , the same as May. You obviously missed that. His is impossible anyway.

I was referring to both not just Corbyn.
But, to leave with a deal the WA has to be signed. Edit - it already is signed - I mean ratified.
 
Quite sure there is data of other large rocks that have got too close to the sun so crap analogy.

Nope. There is no historical data on what would happen if the Earth flew into the sun. So until you provide historical data, Im going to think it’s a great idea.
 
Vidic blood & sand out ownin’ the libs tonight apparently.
 
The Spanish have done stuff to protect their tourist industry and to try and manage the British expats living in Spain.

A lot of it's very mundane stuff designed to get them through the holiday season, like not insisting that UK tourists have an international driving permit as well as their current UK/EU version photo licence. They've also promised to maintain the current EHIC - emergency medical cover scheme for tourists. Basically a bunch of things done to get us through a few months of no-deal without killing their tourist industry or turning their hospitals into financial gatekeepers.

For residents it's to give the changeover time longer - easier to convert UK driving licence to Spanish, continuation of current health cover whether that's cover because you're working or paying into the social security or because the UK government has transferred your (pensioner) health cover to Spain. Continuation of current tax arrangements for pensions and other income. Transitional stuff with a time limit set (3 to 12 months on most of it) to give people a chance to regularise their status - or to leave if they realise that they can't.

All with the proviso that the UK must make the same emergency reciprocal agreements to protect Spanish nationals in the UK.

It's not obvious what they'll do if they can't get Spanish strawberries etc into the UK in a timely manner or how they'll handle Gibraltar etc - basically they're just delaying the cliff edge and hoping that we'll do the same.
So basically the Spanish government has done more to help the British people in Spain deal with Brexit than the British government has done to help British people in Britain deal with it.
 
Yeah people are all certain of the doom and gloom. The recession is coming, and the brexit chaos is gonna sweep us all away.
We're doomed!

It is only how big a disaster it Is going to be that is debatable as it is already an economic, social and political disaster of fairly epic proportions.
 
It is only how big a disaster it Is going to be that is debatable as it is already an economic, social and political disaster of fairly epic proportions.

Political disaster yes, because parliament doesn't want us to leave. They have blocked no deal, and voted against all deals.
 
Political disaster yes, because parliament doesn't want us to leave. They have blocked no deal, and voted against all deals.

Economic hits are coming one after the other and debatably a lack of confidence has also resulted in lower spending that has pushed vulnerable businesses like Debenham's to the brink. Other firms are leaving our shores or preparing to do so. And socially is has been a clusterfeck.
 
The mess is the government not carrying out the will of the 51.5%.

Rubbish. The mess was started by ludicrous political bribery from Cameron that backfired. May has doubled down by being so wildly incompetent as to agree to leave without a plan to do so and then without a willingness to build a political consensus untill mins before we lurch out.

And I very much doubt that all this time later (neatly the time between GEs) there is a majority in favor.

The reason a 2nd vote is so opposed by many has feck all to do with championing democracy and everything to do with ERG types knowing that it would result in either staying or the softest of soft Brexits.
 
Rubbish. The mess was started by ludicrous political bribery from Cameron that backfired.

Unbelievable.

The country voted to leave, and you see it as a backfired policy. How democratic. Cameron was forced to include the referendum in his manifesto because EU skepticism was gaining so many votes for UKIP, and he wanted to win them over.
 
Unbelievable.

The country voted to leave, and you see it as a backfired policy. How democratic. Cameron was forced to include the referendum in his manifesto because EU skepticism was gaining so many votes for UKIP, he wanted to win them over.

It wasn't a backfired policy. It was a backfired political bribe to keep the hard right of the Tory party onside. He wasn't forced to do anything. He made a gamble that looked like a sure thing and he was horribly wrong.
 
It wasn't a backfired policy. It was a backfired political bribe to keep the hard right of the Tory party onside. He wasn't forced to do anything. He made a gamble that looked like a sure thing and he was horribly wrong.

As a remainer it was obviously a gamble, but in order to win over the UKIP voters and get a majority government, he promised a referendum. He saw the EU as flawed and in need of reform because the British people were showing their dissatisfaction. Internal party differences have been a factor for years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21148282
 
May's deal has been rejected by leavers because they don't see it as leaving. However, some are preferring it now to remaining, as an alternative.
They're panicking that they've overplayed their hand, yes. But there's still a hardcore who are blocking it. It's not remainers stopping this happening, there are enough votes from those who backed it last time and brexiters to put it through.
 
May's deal has been rejected by leavers because they don't see it as leaving. However, some are preferring it now to remaining, as an alternative.

Apart from the fact that those hard brexiteers have failed to articulate in these 3 years a solution to the Irish border problem that works with their vision of Brexit, the no-deal Brexit they are now championing comes up in all polls as the least desirable option among the electorate. Therefore their "plan" is not only unworkable, but undemocratic too.

Yet somehow they are morally in the right according to you.
 


If you listen to what Cameron says at 2:34, he explains that the referendum would be to stay in the EU or come out altogether.
It's very clear what the referendum was about, and the government is now overruling the democratic vote. Doesn't this trouble any of you?
 
Politicians sometimes seem stupid, but they are not really stupid.

Is it possible that all political parties have agreed (long time ago!) that leaving the EU is not a good idea and it will not happen, and all the drama of the past two years is just theatrics?
 
@vidic blood & sand do you think we're going to revoke article 50 then?

I think we're heading for a second vote. The EU, Labour, Lib Dems, and majority Conservatives want it. May has promised numerous times it won't happen, which means it's guaranteed to happen. Probably next year after an extension. The EU would agree to an extension if there was a re-vote.
 


If you listen to what Cameron says at 2:34, he explains that the referendum would be to stay in the EU or come out altogether.
It's very clear what the referendum was about, and the government is now overruling the democratic vote. Doesn't this trouble any of you?


It troubles me that the leave campaigns used blatant lies as propaganda and made promises that could never be fulfilled to earn a narrow victory bloated by a demographic that won’t have to live very long with the consequences of their poorly informed / outright misinformed decision.

We’ve learnt the damage it would cause so literally the only non self harming decision left is to pull the plug on it. The blowjob from a Piranha analogy is most befitting. The saddest thing is that there’s actual pig headed nob heads out there would would be on TV shouting “ THATS WHAT WE VOTED FOR, YOU LOST WE WON NOW GERRONWIVIT IT AND GIVE ME MY PIRANAH BLOWJOB” if the scenario was real.
 


If you listen to what Cameron says at 2:34, he explains that the referendum would be to stay in the EU or come out altogether.
It's very clear what the referendum was about, and the government is now overruling the democratic vote. Doesn't this trouble any of you?


Since you asked. Well firstly referenda are non-binding and Cameron along with his cabinet are no longer in govt so his words on this matter little. But still, from my POV, the decision taken by the public to trigger A50 can only be reversed by the public. Hence I'm for giving a confirmatory referendum with the options of: No Deal, May/Corbyn's Deal and Revocation as the options. Rather than government revoking on their own.

I don't see how that would be a failure of democracy then. Especially when you take into account that most claims found in the Leave.EU manifesto have proven to be lies and the campaign were found to have cheated as well.
 
It troubles me that the leave campaigns used blatant lies as propaganda and made promises that could never be fulfilled to earn a narrow victory bloated by a demographic that won’t have to live very long with the consequences of their poorly informed / outright misinformed decision.

We’ve learnt the damage it would cause so literally the only non self harming decision left is to pull the plug on it. The blowjob from a Piranha analogy is most befitting. The saddest thing is that there’s actual pig headed nob heads out there would would be on TV shouting “ THATS WHAT WE VOTED FOR, YOU LOST WE WON NOW GERRONWIVIT IT AND GIVE ME MY PIRANAH BLOWJOB” if the scenario was real.

Leavers were not deceived and misinformed. The remainers were misinformed with project fear, which didn't happen.
 
Politicians sometimes seem stupid, but they are not really stupid.

Is it possible that all political parties have agreed (long time ago!) that leaving the EU is not a good idea and it will not happen, and all the drama of the past two years is just theatrics?

No. Trying to get a hopelessly divided Parliament, led by a woefully inept PM, to honour the impossible promises of a fraudulent Brexit campaign, was always going to result in this kind of acrimony and chaos.