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Originally Posted by denphone
Likely to be deeply frowned upon by the electorate.
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Agreed. The feedback I get from people I know who voted either way on Brexit is she's the best of a bad lot (across all parties), finally showed some leadership skills on Friday and whilst many don't agree with the decision, she has been elected and paid to lead the country and that's what they want her to do as it's how democracy should work in this country.
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Interesting to see the two themes that I mentioned earlier in the year coming together on Friday. The backstop agreement meant a soft Brexit and the Brexiters' lack of a plan meant there was no alternative to clinging tightly to the EU. Here's Sky News's take on why Theresa May triumphed on Friday.
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One Tory MP told Sky News: "We've been mugged." In truth, the mugging took place not in July but in December, at the EU summit of that month. There, the PM agreed that there could be no hard border in Ireland and she would commit to a regulatory backstop (where both north and south would share EU regulations) if no other arrangements could be reached. At that point, the government's negotiating position was all but guaranteed to be one of a soft Brexit.
The Brexiteers also offered little in the way of an alternative plan. With those two advantages, the prime minister appears to hold her colleagues in check. The question is: Do they have another move left?
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https://news.sky.com/story/boris-joh...-turd-11429837