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Junior Chimp
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« on: March 03, 2017, 01:25:19 PM » |
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Part of me thinks May wants the negotiations to fail while publicly supporting them, and thus by autumn 2018 it becomes clear she needs to hold a referendum to ratify any potential deal that has occurred.
Then she holds a referendum in spring 2019 which asks "Should the UK ratify the draft agreement we reached with the EU?" and promises that a No vote will be deemed a mandate to return to the negotiating table for a better deal.
Then, since the draft agreement has satisfied precisely no one, both hard Leav-ers and Remain-ers campaign for a No vote, which wins decisively.
May then hemms and hawws for a while after the referendum, and then when she asks Brussels to reiterate "take it or leave it", she "decides" to "respect the will of the people" and un-invokes Article 50.
She then faces a revolt from the Brexiteers, and then survives it by daring them to do better. Then the rebels quietly resign.
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