Sharpe
3424
But what are they going to do about that one person who always takes the sprinkles and doesn’t pay?
B/C there’s always that person. Always.
Correct. You get a free UK citizenship*! Grats!
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wavey
3427
Exactly, as long as you don’t mind food rationing,
some kind of rationing would be almost inevitable, reckons one big supermarket.
or riots and looting,
https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/no-deal-brexit-supermarket-food-shortages-looting-preparations/
or need water, fuel, or the sewerage system,
or have cancer,
then it remains the only sane option.
Christ what a shitshow this is going to be. I sure hope it doesn’t provoke another financial crisis. I’m nearly 58 and was hoping to retire in a few years.
Not to provide credence to Brexiteers, but my impression is that another crisis has been brewing ever since the last one settled down, because the underlying issues haven’t been addressed, only alleviated somewhat through measures like quantitative easing, measures whose effect will be muted or extinguished the next time around.
Brexit in this case, or rather the no deal scenario with accompanying uncertainty and hysteria, will therefore, from that point of view, be the catalyst (and a serious one no doubt) rather than the cause of any new recession.
I am led to understand, from a cursory reading of various websites and from conversations with friends, and knowledge of some peoples’ finances other than my own, that the debt situation in Britain is rather delicate, the issue being Britain is like a very finely balanced ship, and the current situation helps no-one and a no deal scenario is apt to tip the ship over, but said tipping of ship wouldn’t matter if it weren’t piled so high, with debt in this case.
I’m labouring the analogy somewhat (and would quite like to go sailing now…:S) but if this does provoke another crisiss, it wil be a crisis with deeper roots, and likely to be explained away by the Brexieteers as Remainer lack of confidence in the best case, and likely actual sabotage in the worst.
I remain calm though, and hope that at least the situation won’t be as in Venezuela.
Parliament just voted 312-308 to reject No-Deal Brexit.
Sharpe
3432
308 out of 620 MPs were willing to go on the record as not ruling out No Deal Brexit.
Think about that for a while.
And, OK, a majority said NO to No Deal Brexit but that’s skin of the teeth territory 50.3% to 49.7%.
So, WTF does the UK do now?
308 mad c*nts sit in our Parliament.
Pray for a Viking invasion to gut Parliament?
wavey
3435
Recent history would suggest that this means we ignore the 49.7% entirely and go super hard not-no-deal. I assume.
The problem is that without a stated alternative, it’s like voting on the weather. The UK will leave the EU with no deal on 29 March unless something, and the something hasn’t been identified. Parliament can vote against no-deal Brexit all day and every day, by any majority they want, but if they don’t agree to the current deal and don’t get an agreement to delay that date and don’t rescind article 50 , they’re out without a deal.
I guess @draxen is getting what they want. Hope they stocked up on rations.
draxen
3439
I’m not so sure based on tonights results. It’s entirely possible that Brexit can now be frustrated by the remainers to the point of a 2nd ref.
Sharpe
3440
This would now be the time for May for show her true colors as a noble stateswoman and say that with Parliament having soundly rejected deals multiple times, and with Parliament rejecting a No Deal Brexit, that she is now in favor of either revoking article 50 or holding another referendum.
(Hahahaha I’m not holding my breath. Although I suppose it could happen.)
That would be so delightful.
Truly though, help me out here friends, I am so confused. They voted not to actually do a brexit without a deal, but they have no deal, and are not likely to have one by the deadline in two weeks? What then? Do they just not do the brexit?
Yes, that’s the point. They voted against bad weather.
