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Old 24-05-2019, 21:53   #2611
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Re: Brexit

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
What's going to stop the new PM facing the same problems are the old one?
With our Parliament? Nothing. With the EU nothing - except properly being prepared to leave with no deal. It was and still is the only leverage we have and we have to be believed we’ll use it, otherwise it ceases to be leverage, as May found out.
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Then they'll make the 39 billion conditional for any future arrangement.
So will we!

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They're the 2nd largest, or largest depending how you count, singular economic bloc in the world and they're on our doorstep. We can't not do a deal with them at some point.
Of course, it should be the first deal.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
You are making the false assumption Parliament will stand idly by. It has consistently shown it will not. A PM being “serious“ isn’t going to change a thing.
What will it do then?
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