Brexit

160 mps in Parliament want a no deal out of 650.

Theresa May will now do everything in her limited power to not be held ransom to the hard brexiters, she would rather elect MEPs now just to spite them.

Meanwhile the European Parliament will do what it has always done and that is be more than reasonable and not once have they forced us to taste our own medicine.

For her it's a case of losing face. Not about what the people want or what is best for the country.

She needs to get out of the way with her 3 times rejected deal. We need to proceed. Any time wasted on her tunnel vision is wasted time.

If she wanted to appease the ERG she would’ve dropped the backstop, so that doesn’t sound accurate, she just wanted to get her version of Brexit through Come hell or high water. Her red lines is immigration, as I said she is a middle class pearl clutching racist, no she would never use racist language, but as we saw with her caravans and windrush she is a racist.

Today’s Guardian reports she is going to attempt to get her bill through on the 4th attempt next week, good luck with that one, even if she does succeed which is unlikely, the elephant is still in the room.

She can't drop the backstop. The EU won't let her, for very good reasons. Moreover, the ERG know perfectly well that she can't drop the backstop, which is why they keep asking her to do so - it wastes time, which brings a no deal outcome more likely, which is their preferred outcome.

Besides which, I believe it would be illegal under current UK law to have border checks between NI and the ROI, which would be necessary without some sort of customs alignment. (And which also technically makes no-deal illegal, not that I think May or the ERG give a toss about that.)

This is an interesting article: www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/31/margaret-beckett-brexit-public-vote-dangerous-theresa-may?CMP=share_btn_tw

A few quotes:

"Why Brexit has to go back to the people"

"Beckett has made no secret of her very strong feelings about May’s handling of Brexit, and of the need to put the issue back to the people. She found May terrifying. “The more I look and listen to this woman the more I think she’s capable of doing literally what she says, driving us right to the last minute, and then saying ‘it is my deal or no deal’,” she says."

“I have become increasingly worried that the house could decide something which is so far away from what people thought they were getting when they voted to leave that it could cause serious ructions. Some very strong Leavers say they don’t think people should have a second opportunity to be consulted because they might have changed their minds. That seems to me to be incredibly dangerous as well as completely indefensible.”

"Theresa May thinks she is a dictator and that she doesn’t have to discuss anything with anybody."

"But it is worse than that. She says May ignores the votes of a parliament in which her government has no majority. “This prime minister has actually torn up the British constitution because anything she does not like she just ignores and no one seems to be able to stop it.

“The notion that you have a government that gets defeated by the largest margin in history and just ignores it is weird. If you go back, she tried to keep parliament out of it, then she tried to stop parliament having a meaningful vote. Then having agreed to a meaningful she tried make it a meaningless vote.”

She can push through like a dictator with "my way or no way", but in the end it's the other MP's who tend to give in, depending on how sensitive they are to her threats.

The reason she has gotten this far with her undemocratic views is because nobody demanded that the voice of the actual people is heard.

The original referendum was based on misguidance, deception, false promises and a complete lack of truthful information. That in itself should undermine the validity. Re-checking this after years is democracy. She has double standards, because the MP's change their votes on a weekly basis. There is a whole new generation entitled to vote since 2016. And now there is actual information on the table to make a well considered choice, unlike in 2016. Also, both Vote Leave and Leave EU committed multiple offences under electoral law. This is in conflict with the validity of the referendum. She can't ignore that and people need to intervene and not being misled by her threats as I see happening all the time in the House of Commons at the moment.

In the end that is meaningless, though.

It’s akin to saying that a hungry person would accept a sandwich when really they were told to expect a three course meal. The vote is not on whether something is better than nothing, it’s to do with being forced to accept something that you know is well below what was promised.

If May had come back with a deal that fulfilled all of the promises that were given by leave in the referendum then it would pass the Commons. What she offers is so incredibly short of those promises then it could only pass through blackmailing parliament and, apart from the very weakest politicians such as Johnson, Raab, Rees Mogg et al, it has not worked. That is, in any circumstance, unacceptable.

If they can’t fulfil the promises that were made then the result is undeliverable. If the result is undeliverable then ask people what they would prefer instead. 

This text should go viral and should be the main subject of every discussion now. 

Very well written. This is the actual point. And yet, many mp's, May herself, and the pro-Brexiteers seem to completely miss it.

Are you sure?

Which is bit of a paradox in itself, as the only people capable of putting it back to a vote or straight up canceling Brexit wouldn't do it because of what they have to loose in terms of reputation and potential financial gain.

Financial gain?