Utter and despicable cowardice of the highest order. May has not only effectively destroyed Brexit, she is allowing Corbyn into number 10.

Maybe this is now the time to just accept that the UK is finished. Done and dusted. We voted to Leave. We should have left. Instead this.

I thought my disgust with our political class could not grow anymore intense but now...beyond vomit inducing. The ERG & DUP need to crash this Government. Fight a GE on no deal v Capitulation.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

The Conservative Party have to force a GE. It is as simple as that. May is destroying the country and if the DUP and ERG swallow this, then they will both be the biggest losers.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Very dubious she has nowhere else to go?

The ERG and brexiteers will be up in arms about this. If a customs union comes in that is something the DUP can perhaps get on board with.

Who knows what those ERG folks and hardlines will do now though.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

I'm a brexiteer and fully support the ERG and I am spitting feathers.
This is NOT the Brexit people voted for and the Conservative Party could well pay a price at a General Election.
Begging to Corbyn to bail her out of the mess.

Although i agree that it is frustrating that manifestos / promises before referendum seem to be withdrawn, i don`t like the idea of voting = democracy equation. I am confident with it as i see this `voting = democracy` is trendy terminology in my home country where it is far away from being a democratic country On paper, yes, it is democratic and there are elections. Enough? No.

I can also confirm that my home country lost huge portion of democratic elements just because of 2 referendums happened in last 9 years due to winners` outcome

(For the ones who wonder which country it is. Hint: It was one of the country which Brexit Campaigners was using to threaten British public and it was false alarm for sure)

There are lots of dynamics which run the democracy, including courts, media (which support all views), civil groups who are free to express themselves, political parties for minorities (i don`t mean ethnic minorities, i mean from political view perspective), freedom to criticize rulers, government etc

Actions to revert referendum or its possible results will not be a gravestone for democracy in UK, this can only be a dent (still reasonable concern for sure, i accept that). Because so far the way it progressed actually followed various of democratic steps.

- Conservatives had a promising manifesto and commitment that they will run a referendum and respect the result.
- They were cracked inside (remember the day Boris Johnson said he will support leave and Pound was crushed) and there was a row between both side `without a plan`
- Leave won.

**A break here. If there is a referendum, there should be a clear ruler & plan for the outcome. Cameron resigned and expectation was for Mr Gove and Johnson who run leave campaign to deliver the result. It was their commitment, but this didn`t happen and never a leave campaigner was on the wheel.**

- May won the Conservatives leadership. This is where deviation starts. Winners (i don`t like to name elections like footballs games but i will not be fussy) should take the lead to deliver but Conservatives didn`t want this. I`d underscore the fact that it is a bit weird that i don`t see Brexiteers targeting Brexit campaigners for betrayal? They run the campaign, should be liable to deliver but even couldn`t take the lead. Is this an excuse that they couldn`t take the lead? Sounds naive.

- Then we have Gina Miller who went to court and pushed the government for a meaningful vote. Like the result or not but this seems to be a good democratic sample that a government who has enough power in parliament had to obey to the court.

- May placed a bet for General Election and lost. Well, it seems to be another democratic step that public was `not so happy` the way Conservatives handle this situation including nominating May to deliver Brexit?

So, interestingly on paper this last 2 items seem to be main root cause of deadlock now.

What will happen next?

I can see the votes indicate that Custom Unions will be leading option as EU now needs a clear proposal for an extension.

As long as free movement concerns & free trading concerns are somehow addressed under Custom Unions umbrella, there will not (and should not be) need for a second referendum which will really make all upcoming voting process a bit funny.

Only if this roadmap has another deadlock, then that may be inevitable but it is unlikely.

Edited by blackheatheagle (02 Apr 2019 6.38pm)

Edited by blackheatheagle (02 Apr 2019 6.39pm)