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One strategy open to Johnson is to proceed with the Bill and simply to live (for the moment) with a Christmas tree of amendments (such as customs union/requirement to seek transition extension) that do not stop ratification or require re-negotiation with the EU.
(That category wouldn’t include a 2nd referendum amendment - which would stop ratification: but it is unlikely that there are the votes for that.)
The fact is that, after an election where he gets a majority (and that must be his medium term aim), he can simply pass new legislation to strip the Christmas tree of its unwanted decorations. And if he doesn’t get a majority we are in soft Brexit/CU territory anyway.
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This seems to me to be fair.
Another point I would make: I happen to live in a constituency where Labour won nearly 80% of the vote in 2017.
The Labour MP is pro 2nd referendum, so the site recommended vote Labour: but it might fairly have said “it doesn’t really matter: the result is so certain and your vote is so irrelevant that you might as well back whoever you prefer generally”.
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On this day: the Putney debates.
Interesting question (I think) - why is public awareness in England of the English Revolution/Commonwealth/Glorious Revolution period much lower than awareness of the Tudor period (Henry VIII, 6 wives etc)?
(Measure it by TV series - dramas and histories/historical fiction/popular history/(I think) time spent teaching in in school.)
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Not sure it’s a matter of political culture: the real problem with UK referendums is that there are no binding rules on when they are held and on what questions.
Referendums work well in countries that use them for deciding whether to change the constitution in specific ways (Ireland) or within a fixed framework of rules on who calls them and on what topics (Switzerland: and see ).
Outside a framework of rules, referendums are dangerous: ill-defined “fill in your dream here” options (Brexit); tool of demagogues (Hungary).
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