I think so. They won't get the DUP, that's for certain. I think they'd lose the most hard line ERG lot too, although their numbers are dwindling.Would they necessarily need Labour votes though (they will get a few with Norway option).
I think so. They won't get the DUP, that's for certain. I think they'd lose the most hard line ERG lot too, although their numbers are dwindling.Would they necessarily need Labour votes though (they will get a few with Norway option).
Hello, you citizens of the British Empire.
Although, I have the right of abode in the UK, I have never used it.
I have always preferred to work and stay in other more lucrative parts of the world.
And upon retirement, I have decided that warm weather, lower cost of living and
a better quality of life is what I need.
On the other hand, my daughter works for the UK Home Office, and my son is an
attorney in a big US legal firm in Boston, USA. He may move to the UK in the future.
However, I have been following the mess of Brexit on the Sky, BBC, CNN etc. networks.
What I don't understand is this issue of a BACKSTOP, which seems to be creating some problems.
What exactly does that mean, and why is it such an issue.
And, I must apologize that I have not read or followed this very active thread for a loooong time.
Thank you.
Greetings from the beach in the Tropics.
Hello, you citizens of the British Empire.
Although, I have the right of abode in the UK, I have never used it.
I have always preferred to work and stay in other more lucrative parts of the world.
And upon retirement, I have decided that warm weather, lower cost of living and
a better quality of life is what I need.
On the other hand, my daughter works for the UK Home Office, and my son is an
attorney in a big US legal firm in Boston, USA. He may move to the UK in the future.
However, I have been following the mess of Brexit on the Sky, BBC, CNN etc. networks.
What I don't understand is this issue of a BACKSTOP, which seems to be creating some problems.
What exactly does that mean, and why is it such an issue.
And, I must apologize that I have not read or followed this very active thread for a loooong time.
Thank you.
Greetings from the beach in the Tropics.
Wasn't a great deal but I am a leaver so I would take No deal.
The point is that after leave was vote the remain campaign has caused No Deal to become a strong reality due to their push to sabotage any kind of leave regardless of Mays recent deal, its been in the making for years.
Only have themselves to blame on it when they moan because its as much their fault for not accepting the outcome of the vote, they had the chance to enter into dialogue on the whole thing but there was this "leave over my dead body" which has come back to bite them.
The backstop is an arrangement designed to stop a hard border being necessary in Ireland. The reasons for this as you probably know is that a hard border would almost certainly escalate tensions between nationalist and unionist communities, and this would likely have disastrous consequences. It would set the peace process into reverse in the province.What I don't understand is this issue of a BACKSTOP, which seems to be creating some problems.
What exactly does that mean, and why is it such an issue.
They'd also have to find a way of whipping the SNP and that Welsh lot.A GE will solve nothing, there is equal division in the Labour Party.
A GE will solve nothing, there is equal division in the Labour Party.
It depends on what problem is looking to get solved. Why would May call an election?
1. May thinks she can get a working majority and not need DUP votes anymore. This seems unlikely and she's already had her fingers burnt at the last election along similar lines.
2. May thinks that whatever resolution she reaches now re. Brexit will split and damage the Tory Party. So call an election, lose it, lose power but save the Tory Party from any irrevocable damage.
Who knows with her and her advisors though? They got 2017 spectacularly wrong and it's been a slow-motion car crash since that point.
A GE will solve nothing, there is equal division in the Labour Party.
Ive been saying for a while, a GE offers each party the chance to pin their version of Brexit to the manifesto and come into power with a mandate to carry it out.
Could well see the Tories ending up with "out is out", Labour "Soft Brexit" and the lib dems "no Brexit".
Its an unofficial referendum!
The sensible thing would be to hold a referendum and a general election simultaneously, allowing the parties to go to the country without having to declare a Brexit strategy. Might even be a majority for that in the HOC.