DML wrote:Return_of_the_STAR wrote:I still don’t understand why we can’t just move to EEA and EFTA membership as a temporary solution whilst we try to decide what to do for the long term future. Pay the agreed £39bn. An organised withdrawal. Allows the Tories if they honestly feel they have the will of the people to form a new government in a general election with a clear mandate about what they intend to do or labour to set out their own clear plan should they get into power. It delivers on the referendum as we are out of the EU (obviously it will anger a few million aggressive’s).
Obviously my preferred solution is retaining EU membership but we all know that’s not happening.
Because May cannot push that through. I'm sure she'd love to do that.
Yep. May can’t do it because the ERG would lose their minds and the gammon around the country would be threatening civil war. They won’t accept anything except no deal now. And it wouldn’t please many people. Leavers want to leave, Remainers want to remain. A halfway house (while preferable to no deal!) suits nobody.
Having said that, I think the only options left are no deal or Remain. No deal is the most likely to happen as it seems unlikely the Tories will lose face by calling for another referendum, but a referendum is a possible way out of the mess and hopefully all of this mess has convinced enough people that leaving is a silly idea.