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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I smell something cynical. Recalling that TM said that there may be no Brexit at all if her deal was rejected by Parliament, I think she knows that an amendment to the Bill that would be debated as part of the meaningful vote would be the calling of a second Referendum.
To my mind, the only questions on the Referendum should then be deal or no deal (not remain or leave which is the rat I smell). We had the remain/leave referendum in 2016.
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Let's step back a bit.
Assuming the Meaning Vote fails and there is no mandate in Parliament for the TM Deal, we, as a country, face a choice which will be enacted through our elected representatives, our MP's.
If these MP's conclude that the TM deal is unacceptable, something that we, as an electorate empower them so to do, we are left with a binary choice:
1. Leave with No Deal with the (majority consensus) conclusion of negative implications that this entails with no mandate from the country
2. Ask the country to validate, based on a position of informed consent, the No Deal scenario or the Remain "as is" scenario.
After all, it is less important how we arrived at this fork in the road but, rather, what is on the road ahead of us. What we can now clearly see before us is a choice with visible and actual consequences.