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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-09-24 12:00 pm

Re: Labour Brexit Means ???

[personal profile] nojay 2018-09-24 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The Tories will hang together because if they break apart they lose power in the House of Commons and thus control of the Government.

There is no deal they can agree to, "Norway" has that icky free movement of people immigration requirement which millions of their voters would object to never mind payments to the EU, supremacy of the ECJ and more. Canada plus plus loses them the DUP and thus the House of Commons. There is nothing else except their fantasy Chequers cherry-picking exercise which cannot be accepted by the EU from a country outside the EU's rules since it directly contradicts the four freedoms core of the EU's structure. The Tories can't revoke Article 50 and stay in the EU because they'd lose power for a generation and more, and power is why they're in Government in the first place.

We're headed for a no-deal exit.
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Re: Labour Brexit Means ???

[personal profile] mountainkiss 2018-09-24 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)

I do not think the statement "they will hang together" has any meaning if they are not hanging together behind something. And I do not believe (perhaps wrongly) that they will hang together behind a no-deal exit to the extent that they can get it through Parliament, given how slim their majority is. The number of people needed to block this getting through is pretty small.