The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[AndrewT]

In the past few weeks there has definitely been a drive from both the Remain side and the EU (and also, despite the fact she's supposed to be leading the exit, from Theresa May) to push No Brexit as an option that is on the table. To let Chief Brexit Clown David Davis continue on his clueless path and let the negotiations drift to a point where any kind of deal looks impossible and the two options come down to no deal and no brexit, at which point they hope public opinion has got behind the 'let's just call it off' option.

[TightEnd]

When Boris Johnson is confronted with inconvenient truths about Brexit...... The FT

[TightEnd]

Blimey - check out the chart of sharpest fall in CBI retail measure since 2009. Inflation/ £ fall now biting consumers. Cliff. https://t.co/pIKU90yOoz

[TightEnd]

The Tories still can't decide whether they want to mimic Jeremy Corbyn or destroy him. https://t.co/jmTbICbXly

[TightEnd]

It was perhaps inevitable that education was going to emerge as a key battleground in the culture war over Brexit

[TightEnd]

LOL!

[TightEnd]

Perhaps - perhaps! - the people who think Brexit is a disaster are right, says stephenkb

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/10/crazy-idea-perhaps-people-who-think-brexit-disaster-are-right

[TightEnd]

this from David Davis (to Jeremy Lefroy, Con) bears close reading, on 3-part nature of Brexit deal & poss of "more than one treaty"

[TightEnd]

Brexit in a nutshell http://www.ft.com/content/5898bde4-b992-11e7-9bfb-4a9c83ffa852

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[TightEnd]

Will Brexit spell the end of the Conservative party? asks Prog Politics

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/10/will-brexit-spell-end-conservative-party

[TightEnd]

My fantasy Corbyn speech: ‘I can no longer go along with a ruinous Brexit’ | Alastair Campbell

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/27/fantasy-jeremy-corbyn-speech-no-brexit-revoke-article-50-alastair-campbell?CMP=twt_gu

[ripple11]

Will Brexit spell the end of the Conservative party? asks Prog Politics

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/10/will-brexit-spell-end-conservative-party

The one good thing about the snap election for The Tories, was it pushed the next election (in theory  ) 2 years down the line....giving them more chance to re group /sell the deal etc.

[doubleup]

Will Brexit spell the end of the Conservative party? asks Prog Politics

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/10/will-brexit-spell-end-conservative-party

The one good thing about the snap election for The Tories, was it pushed the next election (in theory  ) 2 years down the line....giving them more chance to re group /sell the deal etc.

It won't get that far.  Unless May makes some sort of breakthrough in the near future, a vote of no confidence is going to be tabled and enough tories will abstain to bring her government down.

[TightEnd]

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 43% (+1)
CON: 41% (+1)
LDEM: 7% (-1)
UKIP: 3% (-1)
GRN: 2% (-)

via YouGov, 23 - 24 Oct

[TightEnd]

The Catalonia developments will be a rude wake-up call to the SNP about the nature of the EU, says Stephan Daisley:

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/10/the-catalan-crisis-has-exposed-what-the-eu-really-stands-for/