03-30-2019, 12:12 AM
(03-30-2019, 12:08 AM)Sotv Wrote: As a leaver even I’m beginning to think it’s not going to happen. Ultimately we can say we won the referendum and we can argue the political points to and fro.
The real problem for leavers is that there are multiple versions of leave. No deal, customs union, Norway 2, labours plan, etc, versus a single idea of staying in. Basically leave is split into a myriad of choices hardly anyone would be pleased with, versus something 48% of the population would be happy to accept.
Leave being split isn't the problem, it's the contradictory red lines that we've been negotiating around that mean May's deal is the only one left.
If Parliament had issued independent impact assessments and then voted with a ranked system a preferred strategy of negotiation around that then maybe we'd have gotten somewhere, but no we had to rush into activating Article 50 and then have an election which made things worse.