Banjax
4669
I’m really curious as to what her thought process that leads to her thinking that a second referendum will ‘risk undermining our union’.
If they go through with Brexit I’m sure that Scotland will vote to be independent with as much haste as Nicola can manage.
Timex
4670
It’s shameful to the UK as a whole that Nigel Farage is not mercilessly beat within an inch of his life every time he shows his face in public.
If May goes, wonder what people in Brussels will do, laugh or cry?
cry, because then they have some other clown to deal with.
Did she forget the salutations when typing them in? Did some intern decide to punt it till later? That’s not how you write a formal letter.
I often see that format mebbe its a Westminster tradition between MPs. Here’s one i picked at random from google
Russia must be so happy they’ve broken so much of NATO.
Corbyn would withdraw from Nato if he could.
And nothing to do with Putin
Here he is at the 40th Congress of the Communist Party of Britain in 1989 (as you do) calling for the UK withdrawal.
Same end result though. Happy Ivan.
wavey
4678
May resigns, will leave on June 7th.
Ding dong the witch is dead, and along comes a flying monkey to replace her
So does this m,ean they’ll try to renegotiate again?
In between the riots when they elect that fuck Johnson and half the UK rises up and tries to put him against the wall I expect they might continue the Brexit stalemate
wavey
4682
Well the next step is that the Tory MPs choose two candidates for the wider Tory membership to select between. Unfortunately, the membership is largely made up of swivel-eyed no-deal Brexit lunatics (as shown in various polls), so the candidates will be playing to that crowd mostly. If Boris gets to the final two, he’s the next PM.
So there’s at least a chance that there won’t be any serious attempts at renegotiation and the new PM waits out the October deadline, and we fall out of the EU by automatic operation of law. If it looked like this were happening, there would hopefully be a no-confidence vote in the Commons and the government would collapse. But “hopefully” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Either way, all signs point to things becoming worse for the UK, as our position will become more hardline. (And fwiw, apologies to our European neighbours for the absolute shitshow we’re causing.)
If Boris wins the Tories split, but that leaves space for Farage/Bannon and their fascists.
I expect it will be one of the other monsters instead. May may have been the worst PM in British history, but her successor will be worse.
Timex
4685
Seems virtually guaranteed at this point.
Jeez, there’s no good guys in the Tory group they could go with?
Aceris
4687
The base (which was always pretty brexity) has been heavily radicalised by social media into “WTO or bust” nonsense (which none of the candidates were talking about during the referendum campaign of course). Which favours the candidates on that side of the Brexit argument. Unlike in previous leadership elections the base will probably put Brexit-cred over elect-ability.
This means that the only way to prevent an ultra-brexiteer from taking over is if the MPs manage to exclude them from the last 2, and it’s highly unlikely they will manage to do so. (Last time Gove managed to stab Boris and so Leadsom was the Brexiteer standard bearer, before coming a cropper in an interview and having to withdraw).
This explains a lot of May’s thrashing around over the last year. The gameplan (however misguided) was always to try and get some kind of semi-sane brexit through to defuse brexit as an issue to run on in the inevitable leadership election, allowing a moderate to win. Other than Johnson the brexiteer-ultras are not heavyweights, and a lot of the brexiteer MPs would vote for a moderate over Johnson if Brexit did not hang in the balance.
This also explains why it was always going to be very difficult to get the ultras to back the WA, as they needed the Brexit issue live for the inevitable leadership election.
