[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Well, 2 years didn't focus minds...

Yes it did. Those that are determined to stop Brexit and overturn democracy.
Link.

As of now, it looks as if they’ve won. They’re certainly well ahead on away goals.

Ruling out No Deal effectively means No Brexit.
Be in no doubt that what we are witnessing is a coup against the people. There may
not be tanks on the streets, but it’s a coup all the same. A few hundred MPs have
decided to defy the will of the 17,410,742 British citizens who voted to leave the EU. It
was the largest number of people to have voted for anything in our proud history.
But the majority of ‘Hon members’ have been determined to overturn the referendum
result, despite repeatedly promising to ‘respect’ it. The electorate is being treated with
undisguised contempt. If they get away with it — which they probably will — Britain
will have ceased to be a proper democracy.
Any chance of securing a dignified exit from the EU was scuppered on Wednesday
night, when MPs voted to take No Deal off the table.
What’s the point of entering any kind of negotiation when your opponents know
there’s no chance of you walking away without a deal, no matter how derisory?
About the same as agreeing to pay a £39 billion bill up front, I guess, without knowing
what you’re going to get in return. If you’re not prepared to walk away empty-handed,
you’re going to get taken to the cleaners.
Curiously, one of the proposers of the No Deal motion was Labour MP Jack Dromey,
a former trades union official and husband of Harriet Harman.
Jack used to be a national officer with the TGWU, now Unite. Somehow I can’t ever
imagine him going into talks with an employer, on his hands and knees,
promising that he’d take whatever pathetic pay rise they decided to offer and
guaranteeing there was no danger that his members would go on strike. He’d
have been lynched as a class traitor.