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« on: September 09, 2019, 02:54:10 PM » |
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I still believe the UK should leave with a deal.
Still, the realistic alternatives for a deal - either May's Deal with all of its issues or a "soft Brexit", which appears to be the more sensible alternative - are utterly unacceptable to both extremes, which we saw on full display with May's deal and the indicative votes.
Either you have the Brexiteers blocking a sensible Brexit because it's not their Rule Britannia unicorn, or the more fanatical Remainers scuppering it in order to push for either revoking article 50 or pursuing a second referendum, and even if it seems like there might - might - be a majority for some sort of deal in Parliament now the chances of one being presented seem distant.
No Deal means to believe in the almost suicidal delusion that a disorganized, chaotic and damaging exit (which will involve the EU dictating terms later) can somehow be "a clean Brexit", the "Malthouse Compromise" and the alternatives to the backstop - which is overrated as a problem - through visionary technology are either nonsensical or a waste of time.
Britain has wasted months and months on playing a dangerous game of voting down all alternatives just because they're not perfect or toying with an unsustainble No Deal fantasy, both of which are part of the problem and not the solution. If the parties and several MP's weren't so obsessively tribal or terrified of the backlash and the Farage boogeyman they really ought to get behind a realistic solution and push it through.
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