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It is worth recalling that a majority of the parliamentary Conservative Party wanted to remain in the EU. It’s worth recalling, too, that there is no majority for a hard Brexit in the Commons, and still less in the Lords. As if she needed reminding, Sir Vince Cable, Ian Blackford and Ben Bradshaw kindly offered the services of the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and Labour rebels, should she need them, to get her policy – or something like it – past her own rebels.
And that is without reckoning on the negotiating power of the EU. To be clear: the EU would still prefer the UK not to leave at all (a small chance of which grows by the day as the British government descends into mayhem). Failing that, it would prefer something comprehensible such as the European Economic Area, the Norway model or some such. Ms May says she doesn’t wish to compromise on these, but refuses to rule out further concessions, as she was urged to by Iain Duncan Smith in the Commons. She’ll need to hand some cherries back.
In short, then, the net effect of these dramatic resignations is to increase the chances of so-called soft Brexit and reduce the chances of hard Brexit. That is ironic, but it is how democracies work, if in mysterious ways, to somehow communicate the public mood to the ruling class.
The Remainers had their first taste of revenge when they deprived Ms May of her Commons majority in her ill-judged snap election last year. Now they will be able to savour the delicious prospect of her being pushed further and further away from her own red lines and towards a softer, longer, gentler Brexit than even Andrex could devise. Boris knows not what he has done; he has managed to “polish the turd” that is the May premiership. Some may feel he deserves a scatological epitaph of his own.
The fact that a majority of MPs do not support leaving the European Union says a lot more about the lack of proper representation in Parliament than anything else.
Time for Brits to take back control from the people they voted for? There was a referendum on changing to the superior Australian House of Representatives system in 2011. Your fellow travellers shat on it and made sure it didn't get up.
Time for Brits to take back control from the people they voted for? There was a referendum on changing to the superior Australian House of Representatives system in 2011. Your fellow travellers shat on it and made sure it didn't get up.
The vote was manipulated, the stars aligned for them and the migration crisis happened. On top of that false promises like 350m/week to NHS etc. The public are sheep. Democracy it ain't. Fear is everything, you control people through fear, this was a perfect example, dem brown fellas are coming.
This was the one vote that wasn't manipulated, which is presumably why it still hurts you so much.
It would be nice if the British people got to select between actually different candidates, but most of them don't get that choice. The candidates are decided beforehand by the parties, and most of them are the same colour of liberal beige.
Looks like Brexit is becoming for the Tories what refugee policy is to the ALP. They need to lose an election every so often to be reminded what the people actually want.
If the migration crisis never happened, they would never have won.
And people still think UK is a democracy.
Toys out of the cot because the hard right version of Brexit isn't going to happen.
Leave won because the EU directly contributed to something that people didn't want. That is the fault of the European Union.
The migrants could never get to UK anyway unless they were allocated under the quota system. It was pure "fear" showing the video of thousands of people marching towards EU. It's by no way related to UK. It's not for migrants to cross over from Calais to UK, many have tried over the years and very few been successful
It is absolutely related to the European Union's freedom of movement.
Nonsense, UK require visas for all asylum seekers holding refugee status in mainland EU
Which is irrelevant anyway,.
What? you were just talking about EU freedom of movement of refugees, which doesn't apply to the UK. How is it "irrelevant"? nice backflip there
No, I was talking about the EU's freedom of movement. You have assumed something that I haven't said, and then gone on about I point I wasn't making, only to accuse me of something I haven't done.
Total Power said:The migrants could never get to UK anyway unless they were allocated under the quota system. It was pure "fear" showing the video of thousands of people marching towards EU. It's by no way related to UK. It's not for migrants to cross over from Calais to UK, many have tried over the years and very few been successful
It is absolutely related to the European Union's freedom of movement.
Unfortunately for the Blairites, when the British electorate discovers that it isn't just about the EU's freedom of movement, they will have nowhere to hide, because they love the low-wage economy that mass immigration brings about.
The Speaker said:The relevance of the EU's freedom of movement is that even if the British government wanted to, it has no real control over the number of migrants with the appropriate EU status that wish to enter the country.