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Perhaps time to think again about whether there's an alternative "prize" other than Brexit that could be rolled out so that enough Leavers would accept it as a compromise and support for Leave drops to manageable levels? Because just cancelling the referendum isn't enough.
In other words, what is the Remain+ proposal? If we cancel Brexit and remain, then and only then X, Y and Z tangible things will happen. What are those things? ("We get to stay in the EU and stop all the chaos" isn't a big enough prize for many Leavers.)
(And please let's not rehash the "but the referendum was won illegally" arguments. I know them all. I hear you, understand you, and agree with you. But the world has moved on, and we must face today's realities.)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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What's to stop the following?
1. MPs pass bill tomorrow they think will mean Boris Johnson has to ask for A50 extension by October 19.
2. Having secured that, they give him his election for October 14.
3. Parliament prorogued Monday next week. Late Monday BJ moves election date.
He moves it so that the end of prorogation runs into the dissolution period without a break (dissolution: 25 working days before a GE)
4. 19 October arrives. BJ does nothing.
5. MPs beyond incandescent but Parliament isn't sitting until the GE, now on the other side of Brexit Day
6. Only recourse might be the courts. But can they really reach a ruling between October 20-31 in the middle of a General Election. It will go all the way to the Supreme Court and maybe the ECJ
7. If we get to 31 October for *any* reason, we're out out. Game over.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Looking at the mass outbreak of rationality across the HOC (to an extent - it's all relative) I wonder if Brexit having forced antagonists to work together, properly together, has made them realise that they have much more in common than with the frootloops steering the ship.
(I don't mean their politics or world views.) I just mean they've been forced to spend time with each other & really listen. And they now understand it's possible to have real dialogue with people you fundamentally disagree with on many things. They're not the country wreckers.
It's slim pickings, but that may turn out to be the only positive that comes out of Brexit.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Even wilder thought: Boris Johnson gets so desperate he offers Nigel Farage a merger. Renames the party the "Conservative and Brexit Party".

Likelihood: slim to none.
Hair-raising potential: infinite.
Logic: NF will never ever go away. UKIP and now the BP will keep harming the Tories for so long as Brexit persists (which we know will be years and years) even if their power wanes after Brexit Day. And euroscepticism will always be the Tory disease. Throw it all in the mincer...
And NF said this morning on #r4today that the Brexit Party would get out of the way if Boris Johnson pivots straight for no deal. So there are cosying up noises on both sides.
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