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Edwin Hayward
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MPs may be cooking up a plan to back Theresa May's Brexit deal in return for a second referendum on implementing it, or staying in the EU. If Leave won, TM's deal would be immediately ratified. Intriguing idea, but I can see two main issues with it... theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
1) Hardcore Brexiters will freak, because it's not the pure hard Brexit their unicorn cult demands.
2) Since it would be implemented as an amendment, the Government might resort to dirty tricks to ignore it after getting the OK for TM's deal.
Still, it is not without merits:
1) It buries no deal, which is massive. No matter what, no deal would be toast.
2) It adds a veneer of extra legitimacy to the process (rather than eg having a hated deal imposed by 50%+1 of MPs who have been scared/bullied/bribed to vote for it.
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Edwin Hayward
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A thread on the ineptitude of David Davis...
"It is vital to set out how we leave", said the man-without-a-plan, in advance of the Brexit referendum...
Our membership of the EU hasn't increased trade (except that our exports to the EU went up from £133 billion in 1999 to £274 billion, and our imports from £142.2 billion to £341 billion. But those are just facts, to be ignored at will...)
Um, no. Service industries aren't getting a look in.
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Edwin Hayward
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Here's David Davis in 2015, celebrating EU law for its role in blocking what he saw as overreach by government.
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Edwin Hayward
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Although there are dozens of permutations, I can see Brexit unfolding in the near term one of two ways:
A) Parliament manages to impose its will in a non-blockable manner (if they even can) and Brexit gets delayed.
B) Theresa May runs the clock down until days before Brexit Day.
Under scenario B) she would then dare MPs to vote down her deal and fall over the no-deal cliff. And the threat would probably have teeth, too, in that it's unlikely Parliament could execute a strategy to kill off no-deal at that late, late stage.
The upshot would be that we would end up with a Brexit that we had quite literally been blackmailed into. A choice made, not for the good of the country, but purely and solely to keep the Tory party together.
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