Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:DML wrote:So much bluster.
Heres whats going to happen.
Mays deal fails, and she doesn't get to go back to the EU for whatever reason.
Government takes control.
They do for a Norway deal, the EU says no.
The courts uphold that the UK can't crash out on No Deal.
Leaving only an election or a referendum.
Unless something extroidinary happens, I can't see how else it can go down. A leadership change won't change anything, because a Brexiteer PM is even LESS likely to get parliament to sign a deal, and they will prevent a no deal. Its up to the Conservatives whether they want to collapse or end up triggering a second referendum. I personally think they will take the former route, but Labour are only flip flopping because they think Norway is still a possibility, and very soon it will be totally off the table when the EU know that they cannot no deal!
Roll on May's defeat. So much listening to people like Boris etc who right now couldnt be more irrelevant. What is interesting is May, the whips, the DUP and Labour.
Norway cannot happen unless we accept free movement. The Tories are never going to flip around to saying we should accept it, they’ve been banging the “immigration is too high!” drum for a long long time now.
I think an election is far more likely than a referendum, the Tories cannot push for another referendum after all the recent rhetoric. Labour might go for it, but they’d still need to win an election. And then we’d have to win the referendum if Labour called it.
And the clock is ticking, no deal doesn’t need anybody to go for it, it just needs Parliament to be unable to agree.
If they legally can't leave on No Deal, the clock is kinda irrelevant. We are guaranteed a can-kick/withdrawal of Article 50 before that regardless.
Also, the Tories no longer really control these negotiations. It doesn't matter what the Tory stance was as much now, they won't be fully controlling negotiations.
Thats not cheery eyed optimism, thats the reality of the situation. The big unknown factor is the Labour Party, what will they actually push for when they hold the cards? They could be equally as useless, we'll just have to see.
The one thing I feel is 95% certain at this point is No Deal is dead, even if everyone fails to agree something. Its not helpful to keep pushing that, because I just don't think thats the new reality of the situation. Its fun to talk of a ticking time bomb, but that's whats going to push one of the other options (welection, can kick, referndum) into action and not be the cause of an auto-no deal.