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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
If May's Chequer's punt fails presumably she's finished and we end up with a Canada-type deal.
Surely Labour can't support that in a vote.
The EU proposed a Canada deal a year ago, but that was an odd thing to do, because it can't work. They imagined there could be a border in the Irish Sea, but, with May dependent on the DUP (quite strange people who think kids shouldn't play on swings and slides on Sundays, in fact they don't think anybody should ever have any fun at all because they come from that rather depressing Scots tradition), there can't be a border in the Irish Sea, because then the DUP think that the Wolf of Rome would come and swallow them and make them do evil Romish things, shudder. And the EU won't accept a hard border in Ireland either, because the RoI doesn't want one and the EU has to represent the RoI's interests. (And no sane person in the Six Counties or Great Britain wants a hard border either. At the same time, many sane people in the Six Counties are opposed to joining the Republic and it's not at all clear that the Republic really wants to take on all the complications of governing the Six Counties, which would deliver a massive shock to the complacent monocultural character of the Republic, and to its legislature, and might undermine its stability. They didn't spend the 1920s and 1930s ethnically cleansing almost all of the large Anglican Protestant population from the 26 Counties by threats or actual violence, including murder, for nothing, y'know.)
So the deal can't be done. And May keeps saying she won't have another referendum, but another referendum is likely to be the only viable way out of the fix she's in. A Tory leadership coup? Then she could be toast. A general election? Polls predict another hung Parliament, but there's the fringe possibility of a Corbyn-led batcrap-Stalinist regime, which Conservatives presumably wouldn't like. Meanwhile the polls also say that, for many months now, the public has been at least 58/42 Remain, and the trend is only one way as people belatedly start to comprehend the abysmal reality of Brexit.
Last edited by 57 On Red; 10-15-2018 at 04:19 PM.