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Brexit - Should I stay or should I go??

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Kepler said:
That pic of the empty benches is amazing. I never thought a party would do that to its own leader and sitting national head of government. Really good thing May isn't Japanese.
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If that happened to Abe, it would be figurative seppuku for him.
 
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Now May has decided that her Brexit plan won't be introduced after all. Maybe next month, assuming she still has a job.

Government is (privately) ordering industry to prepare for no-deal as "inevitable" at the end of the extension. Of course the Government won't comment publicly.
 
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Kepler said:
I can imagine everybody taking a step backwards, and then them naming whoever was late for the meeting.
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HA! I love it.

Theresa May could be a great person and an effective MP in her previous role but I don't recall a British leader so much over their head in that job in my lifetime. Yes she got screwed by Cameron who ditched before the sh it hit the fan but nobody forced her to run for the job.
 
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Rover said:
HA! I love it.

Theresa May could be a great person and an effective MP in her previous role but I don't recall a British leader so much over their head in that job in my lifetime. Yes she got screwed by Cameron who ditched before the sh it hit the fan but nobody forced her to run for the job.
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Maggie was in way over her head. She was superb at bluffing it out, but scratch the surface and she was a middling minister with a sophomoric understanding of economics and policy, much like her mirror image over the pond.

That was the Golden Age of the Potemkin Leader. The conservative rot hadn't bitten deep into the state yet so countries could run pretty much by themselves even with those nitwits at the helm.
 
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I find it laughable that Brexiteers talk about how the new PM will be able to negotiate a better deal with the EU. They're lying through their teeth. The EU isn't interested in further negotiations and neither are the Brexiteers. They will happily take a no-deal on 31 October. Be interesting to see if the UN is willing to call the UK a rogue nation and impose sanctions. The poor people of Northern Ireland.
 
ticapnews said:
I find it laughable that Brexiteers talk about how the new PM will be able to negotiate a better deal with the EU. They're lying through their teeth. The EU isn't interested in further negotiations and neither are the Brexiteers. They will happily take a no-deal on 31 October. Be interesting to see if the UN is willing to call the UK a rogue nation and impose sanctions. The poor people of Northern Ireland.
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And if Brexit is successful?
 
ticapnews said:
I find it laughable that Brexiteers talk about how the new PM will be able to negotiate a better deal with the EU. They're lying through their teeth. The EU isn't interested in further negotiations and neither are the Brexiteers. They will happily take a no-deal on 31 October. Be interesting to see if the UN is willing to call the UK a rogue nation and impose sanctions. The poor people of Northern Ireland.
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Keep repeating yourself and it will soon sound like more than one person thinks this will happen :)
 
mookie1995 said:
Keep repeating yourself and it will soon sound like more than one person thinks this will happen :)
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It isn't a question of legality. The UK is a signatory on the Good Friday Agreement which is a binding international treaty. It is against UK and international law to break that treaty, which is exactly what leaving without a deal does. The question is whether the EU and the UN will hold it accountable or not. Considering what other countries have gotten away with I'm not optimistic.
 
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Britain will skate. The UN doesn't punish white countries*.

*dependent on whether or not you consider Serbians white
 
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More to the point, Britain is a permanent member of the UN Security Council with a veto.
 
bronconick said:
More to the point, Britain is a permanent member of the UN Security Council with a veto.
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But it will have no voice in the EU after 31 October and Ireland will have a very loud voice. Germany and France have said they will not abandon the Irish over Brexit. They have stood firm so far but let's see how far they are willing to go.
 
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ticapnews said:
But it will have no voice in the EU after 31 October and Ireland will have a very loud voice. Germany and France have said they will not abandon the Irish over Brexit. They have stood firm so far but let's see how far they are willing to go.
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The Irish? Aren't they just Britons with a more attractive accent, more gingers, and higher alcohol tolerance*?

*Being at least 20% Irish, I'm allowed to make this joke
 
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