[Merged]Brexit stuff

[CretinWatcher]

No. They were clearly going tits up anyway, and couldn't see things improving in the short term. Terrorist attacks probably didn't help much either.

Wait and see

[Mordac]

Whereas you just sound thick. Anyway either I will be proved right or you will be. All we need is patience.

Stop draining mine away then...

[scooterscot]

It is beginning to look this way, can't see it being invoked in the next 24 months. Like a delinquent child we'll be thrown a bone from time to time but never have a place at the top table.

Shot ourselves in the foot so we did.

[NotAllThere]

Do you think she is sacrificing her entire political career to go against the wishes of the majority? Martyrdom!

I don't believe for one minute that she will go against the results of the referendum. However, this thing about "not going with the wishes of the majority" being political suicide is a place where (among other places) you are delusional.

First of all you have this weird idea that people would be as outraged as you would be if the results of the referendum are ignored. If there was a rerun (which I'm fairly sure there won't be), on such a narrow margin last time, it's entirely possible the result could go the other way. Given that, you might find that only a minority of people would actually give a toss, and not enough to cause her any trouble.

Second, all she has to to do is convince somewhat less than 40% of the voters that she's doing the right thing in not leaving the EU at the next General Election, and she'll have all the democratic mandate she needs.

Margaret Thatcher remained in power for eleven years by appealing to the minority that she needed to ensure a majority in parliament.

[sirja]

Well now she's saying there will be no Article 50 trigger until there is a full UK agreement. Not sure how that's going to work as Scots are dead set against leaving the EU. Has she just given Nicola a veto on the whole thing?

[CretinWatcher]

Well now she's saying there will be no Article 50 trigger until there is a full UK agreement. Not sure how that's going to work as Scots are dead set against leaving the EU. Has she just given Nicola a veto on the whole thing?

Well she is the PM of the U.K., not England.

[sirja]

Well she is the PM of the U.K., not England.

I think she's just laying down all the markers that Messrs Davis, Fox and Johnson will have to provide credible solutions for before article 50 is triggered. it's going to be a very interesting next couple of months.

[SuperZ]

So, you saying that the forthcoming interest rate drop and "cash injection" could push up asset prices possibly profiting the wealthier in society but article 50 could never happen? That would make the average Leave voter happy.

[shaunbhoy]

Has she just given Nicola a veto on the whole thing?

Au contraire, she has just reminded Nicola that, as Scotland voted to remain part of the UK, she will get the same "preferential" treatment as everywhere else.

[Mordac]

It is beginning to look this way, can't see it being invoked in the next 24 months. Like a delinquent child we'll be thrown a bone from time to time but never have a place at the top table.

Shot ourselves in the foot so we did.

That's pretty much how it was for the 40 odd years before the referendum...