At #FreudenBrexit earlier I was asked for improbable Brexit scenarios... things that are just barely plausible.
So far I came up with 4...
- May, before going to the Palace to resign, writes to Tusk to revoke Article 50
(see point 1 here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/03… )
- Johnson, having been appointed PM, wants to keep the job. So promises a #PeoplesVote rather than going for a General Election
- May goes to the Queen, tenders resignation, but Queen does not think Johnson has a majority in the House of Commons and asks someone else to be an interim PM (Benn? Lidington?)
- It turns out that Boris Johnson leaked the Darroch cables (or Johnson faces some other major scandal), and he is so disgraced he cannot take office
What am I missing?
Send me your possible, but just about plausible, scenarios.
I will write them all up in a blog entry - with credit if you want. DMs also very welcome!
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Earlier @Felyxorez pointed me to this in Le Monde about bosses of railway companies demanding "un nouveau pacte ferroviaire européen" 👇 lemonde.fr/economie/artic…
It's a summary of the main piece in Le Journal du Dimanche (no paywall if you accept ads)👇 lejdd.fr/Economie/sncf-…
First, the content
Honestly it's 🤷♂️
A load of we're green, we're the good guys, bla bla. Heard it all before. No concrete demands, no concrete plans
"Pour que le train soit plus attractif, nous nous engageons à améliorer l’expérience client : de la réservation à l’information voyageur en temps réel grâce au numérique, ainsi que pour l’offre ferroviaire internationale, y compris de nuit."
Starting at 14:00 CET the Berlin Senat is releasing the results of its night trains study at a webinar - all the details here - inc. dial in link: pro-bahn-berlin.de/dateien/presse…
2️⃣ "EU's refusal in 2020 to negotiate an SPS equivalence process" - EU made it clear all along that this was a non-starter. You cannot keep rolling this one out over and over - you stated in 2021 "Britain has just become a fully independent country again"
Dreary grey weekends in Berlin mean more wanderlust... I've now planned all the bike legs of my #CrossBorderRail trip for this summer - where there is no train, or infrastructure doesn't exist any more, I will cycle rather than take the train
Komoot is much better for bike trip planning than Google, so all the routes are listed here in Komoot 👇 komoot.de/user/189774755…
The good news: I've found a way to do Kulata 🇧🇬 - Sidirokastro 🇬🇷 by bike instead of needing a taxi!
The less good news: Suwalki 🇵🇱 - Marijampolė 🇱🇹 is a complete pain. Even bus schedules here are horrible (v early morning), and were I to cycle it's more than 80km... Do I want to risk that on a Birdy folding bike on rural lanes?
Essentially, on reflection, it strikes me as implausible that there cannot be something new when the report comes out - either *in* the report, or through some further leak
And version 1.0.0 of the diagram did not cover that adequately
Diagram re-worked on that
Some additional thinking about how the 54 MPs might be composed helped here too
As ever: thoughtful feedback is *so very welcome* - it helps these diagrams improve!