Brexit

Can someone explain in one post a summary of what the hell is going on, for those of us who are confused?

A picture says 1000 words...

That is up to us, they will only escape if we let them.

Minor compared to those currently in power, he even did the honourable thing and resigned after being defeated. May should have gone when she was defeated in parliament but didn’t. Can he be attacked for staying out of it? He would probably have been so if he had not.

I was unconvinced that there would ever be civil unrest if there was a no deal or a no Brexit, I do think that the way that things have gone, however, that there is a real chance of it in times to come if May’s deal is now bullied through parliament. There is a popular groundswell of enmity to it built in now, that enmity is cross party and unites a variety of unconnected factions. It’s a powder keg that may well be ignited if people are suddenly told to accept it.

Maybe the EU can point this out because parliament seems blind to it. The way to do so would be to refuse a short term delay given that there is no settled majority support for anything. The EU will be hurting themselves by enabling a dysfunctional state in that dysfunction. A two year delay will be in their interests (always the major factor in collective EU decisions) and it might allow for this country to find something that it does agree on. Beware May’s deal, it has become as bad an option as no deal, and yet parliament may be fatally bounced into supporting it.

EDIT: Exhibit A as to why this parliament will be vilified in perpetuity. The Brexit secretary who summed up the debate, telling people that they should vote for the government motion......voted against the government motion. Words fail....

That's the bright side.

Once this matter is finally resolved and the dust (eventually) settles, give it 5 years or so and this whole saga will be turned into either a mini-series, television docu-drama or a full feature film.

Planning ahead, anyone know of Ms Streep's availability?

Tonight was fun. Peak Brexit: The Tory Chief Whip voting against the amendment he was whipping. Days of our lives ..

SRB as Corbyn if it goes into the National!

Robert Bathurst, who seems to specialise in playing posh twits, could be Christopher "I Object" Chope, who now seems to be spearheading a "Tories for Corbyn" movement with his threats to bring the government down.

Maybe even a feature film series ala Star Wars?
Brexit - A New Hope
Brexit - The Empire Strikes Back
etc

There were a number of Brexit productions at Edinburgh Fringe last year, surely a few more 'Part 2s' will show this year.

Isn’t Brexit already based on The Phantom Menace? An entire movie about the ‘Trade Ferderation’ blocking trade, trying to dispose of the female leader, the creation of an intelligent but robotic know-it-all, a race to the finish and a home grown resistance led by an incompetent fool with a big tongue (but very little else about him).