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Originally Posted by jfman
While I agree with the vast, vast majority of the post Parliament itself isn't designed to be this divided. The May Government would have collapsed many times over if this level of division existed over almost any other issue.
Had May convincingly won the election in 2017 her deal would have been quickly approved and nobody would be debating if the deal was (or wasn't) Brexit. Neither Parliament, or the country, are designed to be this divided on a single toxic issue.
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Agreed ... there is something of a perfect storm blowing, but one single toxic issue has brought it all to crisis point. What worries me is that a single toxic issue is sometimes all it takes. Don’t get me wrong, I think we’re a very long way from civil war, but having deployed the innovation of a referendum (and in terms of our ancient, unwritten constitution, referendums are still an innovation), Parliament needs to be a lot more careful how it handles the fallout. Yes, the present political makeup of parliament certainly is unhelpful, but this is the point at which MPs, and particularly the Speaker, whose hands are not at all clean, need to be taking a longer term view of the institution they are temporary members of.