Maybe point on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50205603 instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit#Extensions
Granted 22 March 2019, 10 April 2019, and today.
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution...
How, say french PM, is going to justify to his ppl that they will suffer... say loss of 1% of gdp, just because politicians decided to teach British a lesson?
No politician would be willing to do this, that would be career suicide brought up every elections.
Plus bonus UK then gets a 'get-out-of-jail-free' card.
'Oh, the evil EU kicked us out without us having say, and now we are suffering. See how bad EU is' - Borris or another brexiter PM.
It's true that what the people want is getting ignored by the political class; polls show a majority of the public wants to stay in the EU, now that is has become clear what leaving means, but the government keeps insisting on the hardest possible Brexit, against both common sense and the will of the people.
Please stop spreading fud. There are many videos that I can post which have many MPs stating that a leave vote means:
- Leaving the EU
- Leaving the single market
- Leaving the ECJ
- etc
Here are two examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MaYV778kgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZas08SUtI
I'm sure there are more.
Saying that the British People didn't know what they were voting on is a myth that the remainders keep on perpetuating and it's simply not true.
Finally, if you don't agree. Please post some links opposing this post. Thanks.
https://twitter.com/KatarinaKeys/status/1188785762436816896
But it is indeed a crisis of democracy: the elected leaders should be able to prevent self-harm scenarios like this.
I.e. the elected leaders held a position you strongly disagreed with, and there had been a referendum on the question in which the opposition to that idea had won?
A tiny majority believed the unicorny promises, and voted for the unicorn in 2016.
After three years of mucking about, it turns out that the best the town council can get is either a very old and haggard pony with an inflatable novelty unicorn horn (Johnson's deal), or the rotting cadaver of a dead horse with a carrot glued on its head (no-deal Brexit).
Obviously, one of these two must happen, because the people voted for it. Keeping the perfectly serviceable horse they have now is not an option, because democracy has spoken, and changing your mind is not allowed (because democracy).
Granted, as a European I may be a bit cynical about this mess.
I believe these are the reasons that the government + parliament have found it so hard/failed to come to a conclusion. It's also the reason I don't think this whole saga is anywhere near done.
Personally I'd like to see a second ref on specific options, but that seems unlikely now.
The degree of intra-party struggle and defections, including from the cabinet, experienced by the Tories over Brexit divisions since the referendum suggest that the referendum did not, in fact, solve the intra-Conservative-Party issue.
