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Originally Posted by Chris
Untrue.
The block, now, is the continual drip, drip of obstructions to the meaningful vote, and now to passage of the WAB.
“Take no deal off the table” is a strategy to ensure the WAB never passes through the Commons (certainly not in a form compatible with the agreement negotiated with the EU), resulting in serial applications for deadline extensions with the eventual aim of creating an irresistible, major shift in public opinion towards a second referendum or outright revocation.
The continuing remain strategy ever since 2016 has been to make Brexit look too arduous to see through, and then to reverse the referendum result. “Take no deal off the table” is a tactic in pursuit of that overall strategy. Nothing more.
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Your position is expected as you are happy with any cost to the country to achieve the result you crave for. For the majority of the country, their view is different, they do not wish to be poorer and so No Deal needs to go.
Caroline Lucas seem to have found the reason for this position in Parliament:
https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/st...15530401513474
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Ah, just found the trapdoor to No Deal.
Clause 30 - if the Government doesn’t propose an extension to the transition, MPs have no say, & therefore if negotiations on future relationship unfinished by end of December next year, we’re out - it’s #NoDeal
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As Hugh has repeated pointed out, this PM's word cannot be trusted and so the only route is to amend the legislation to force his hand.
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Originally Posted by jfman
Your negotiating strategy is like the one in Blazing Saddles where the Sheriff of Rock Ridge rides into town and negotiates with the people of the town not to shoot him.
Boris may be a comedian but he’s no Mel Brooks. And he wouldn’t get the reprieve the Sheriff did in the movie.
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If this the Boris you imagine?
