Mind you, it’s more a function of everyone being desperate to have someone else to blame when No Deal happens than any commitment to honouring the outcome of the referendum, but fùck it, I’ll take it.
Mind you, it’s more a function of everyone being desperate to have someone else to blame when No Deal happens than any commitment to honouring the outcome of the referendum, but fùck it, I’ll take it.
No Deal ain't happening, mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It's either May's Deal (with minor tweaks to the Backstop) or no Brexit.
Probably.
:hehe: No, m. The mechanisms for stopping Brexit simply don’t exist. And neither is there the political will to achieve it. Both Labour and the tories are terrified of being seen to stop Brexit because doing so will destroy both electorally. Equally, a second referendum is now a dead duck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
The only options now are deal and no deal. I would guess a fudged deal will happen, but I wouldn’t put any money on it.
A fudged deal enabled by the supposedly intransigent DUP and ERG? I'm sure you were telling me just days ago why this simply wasn't going to happen (despite me predicting it months ago) :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It will be a Brexit so soft that it might as well have not happened at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
No, I said that an unlimited backstop that we could not escape from unilaterally would never be acceltable to the ERG and DUP. That still stands. Any workable fudge will have to overcome that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Uh-huh? And on what are you basing that rather bold assertion?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Yes but - and forgive me if I'm wrong - at the time the original deal was voted down, you seemed to be of the view that the ERG's objections were so wide-ranging (extending, as they did, far beyond the matter of the Backstop) that the deal was 100% dead in the water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Now you seem to be saying a "small fudge" could see them fall into line, presumably because you've now come to agree with my original prediction made months ago :shrug:
No. As I said, May's deal IS the backstop. Changing that is not a small anything. Anything else is a different deal altogether.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
So what is the "small fudge" that wouldn't surprise you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I haven’t mentioned a ‘small fudge’, m. That’s your term.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
For anything to happen, the EU will have to bend its Single Market rules. It’s that or No Deal.
Let’s hope the UK aren’t stupid enough to pay any of the 350 billion out to the EU either, before securing a trade agreement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
What happened last night?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I gave up following 'The News' some time ago. They should rename it 'The Narrative' imo.