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Originally Posted by jfman
As we know Theresa May categorically rejecting something is not equivalent to it being an impossible future event.
So what does she want? People to write to their MP? Tell YouGov they like the deal?
I’m sure as many people see her words tonight as had she said them at lunchtime via the dispatch box given the wall to wall coverage Brexit gets. Was she on BBC 1, or ITV?
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You’re missing the point of the event.
She was talking to us but speaking to them (to quote Basil Fawlty). A public address on prime time TV gets everyone’s attention and gives the PM a PR advantage in the hearts and minds of the public. She’s cast herself as their defender against the perfidious Commons. But the substance of her address was a threat to MPs that it’s time to make the hard choice. We leave on 29 March without a deal, or at some point between late May and late June with the WA as agreed between the EU and HMG.
All the breathless commentary about the third, fourth and fifth options simply aren’t going to fly. The choice on offer is binary, and that’s all there is to it.