I don’t understand that argument to be honest. What is your view of how the impasse can be resolved? Do,we go for a second referendum as the government can’t or won’t make any decision, or do the government do what the people asked for when consulted?
I’ve heard the argument put forward that the young people stand to lose out with brexit. They were the largest group of voters not to turn up suggesting that they weren’t that interested either way.
Well as I understand it, there's going to be three votes next week:
Tuesday is May asking MPs "Are you sure you don't want to accept my deal?" Would seem to me that any MP in favour of Brexit should be voting with May this time round, because it's the clearest route to Brexit actually happening. But even if they do, I'm not sure there's enough votes in parliament for it to get through.
Assuming it doesn't, Wednesday is "Shall we leave without a deal"? Answer to that is going to be no.
Assuming that's the case, Thursday is "Shall we kick the can down the road"? And the answer to that has to be Yes, otherwise it's No Deal Brexit by default.
So then what next? Well, it seems to me that if we can't get a majority vote for the deal that's on the table, can't renegotiate that deal, and can't get a majority for leaving without a deal, then there's only two options:
- Hold a general election, in the hope that a newly elected parliament with a different make up can get a majority vote for a particular course of action, or
- Hold another referendum and let the people decide how to get out of this mess.
I think #2 would be a massive dereliction of duty on behalf of parliament. But they're fast proving themselves incapable of making this decision on their own.
