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Farage is promising a general election? How is he going to engineer that?
The issue is that as soon as leave starts to become defined it becomes the most unpopular option. Maybe we should have just left with May's deal but that's proved so unpopular Tories came 5th in these EU elections, maybe we should leave under WTO rules but that's only been supported by about 33% of those who voted last Thursday* or maybe we should leave with a combination of May's deal plus Customs Union but they'll be plenty saying that betrays Brexit.
We wouldn't have to go begging to stay in. We can cancel Brexit at any point before we leave and, presumably, return to the same arrangement we had before.
*difficult to say that because they'll be those voting for Tory and Labour who are open to that also.
I broadly agree with you, the comment about our staying was not that our status and voting power would change but that we will have, in the eyes of some, returned with 'our tail between our legs' and they will take every opportunity to reminds us that we are only there because the chose to 'allow' us to revoke article 50. I can anticipate the comments like "Why should we take any notice of you, you might be leaving again next week". I'm sure you can see what I mean.
Now is probably a good time to get out. China is being contained and the US & Japan are currently plotting the end of globalisation. India and Brazil are on-board, along with South Korea and various other nations. The EU is going to find itself seriously short of cash, and that is before the US renegotiates their EU trade deal. France is also not looking good either, I can't see Macron lasting. The fallout is going to be huge, as it is with all socialist states when the decline sets in.
Remain would have been ok under the old Bush/Clinton/Obama way of doing things, but the global economy is now sailing in a new direction, so it would be a very good time to jump ship. Only hardcore socialists would think it's a good idea to stay in the EU at this point in history.
I can't imagine anything other than no-deal exit.
The EU aren't going to give us a "good" deal (for us) are they?
Otherwise other countries may want out.
Barnier I believe wants to give us such a bad deal that we want to go back in - on their terms.
That is fair enough and a decent reason on the face of it. Wanting to leave because you imagined some french guy taking the piss out of us is not.
If this is about the democratic process and respecting it then doesn't following a direction which all the evidence shows us doesn't have a mandate (no deal) kind of defeat the point?
How can the deadlock be broken.
Parliament cant agree on a solution. The Tories don’t want a General Election.
As Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC
said of the Liberals Its like Turkeys voting for an early Christmas.