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Is Brexit actually going to happen?

Will we have a brexit?


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it's clear you fell out of the stupid tree and knocked your head on every branch on the way down

because there's lots of sorts of leave but only one remain
Hmmm...thinking the Sky Blue vests might suit the 'reluctant' remainers...those 'with no illusions'?
 
Only one remains, would be the proper English. And there are still at least two sorts of leave remaining as far as I can see.
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tragically - agreed. The only thing that may change this is the generational thing: most under 40 are Remain, by a long way
There might be something in this. At the time of the referendum, I was 39 and voted remain. I’m now 42 and would vote leave. Maybe something happens on your 40th birthday.
 
I reckons there's tons of poorer angry young people who voted leave and would do again. Or who maybe couldnt even vote last time - there's tons of skinto 17 year olds nowadays.

I reckon they dont come up in a lot of surveys. Most young people don't have land-lines and if they do they don't answer them to random daytime numbers cos they're at work or whatever. I reckon liberal middle class types are more visible, easier to contact/survey online, more likely to respond at all and more likely to reflect staunch remain attitudes. This is backed up by the "shock" Labour swing in 2017.

The idea that it's just all the old racists voting leave and they will "die off" is biggoted and naive. I'm friends with an 87 year old Labour remainer and I know people in their 20s who voted out - for a variety of reasons.
 
If we're still doing Smiths songs...

Jeane (-Claude Juncker)

We tried and we failed
We tried and we failed
We tried and we failed
We tried and we failed
We tried...
Oh Jeane...
 
Theresa May sets January date for MPs' Brexit vote
MPs will vote on the UK's Brexit deal in the week beginning 14 January, Theresa May has told Parliament. The vote was due to be held last week but was put on hold after Theresa May admitted she was set to lose. Announcing a new date, Mrs May said the EU had made it clear the Irish backstop was "not a plot to trap the UK" and urged MPs to see Brexit through. Labour had threatened to force a confidence vote in the PM if she did not set a date for the vote.
 
When it the transition period document falls through it'll give them about two months not to sleepwalk into crashing out.

Can they get their shit together in 10 weeks between mid January and the end of March??

Who knows. But I'm not hopeful.
 
In fact if she doesn't make the end of March, are there any auspicious dates for a retrospective deal?

D-Day, certainly. Then there's the 11th day of the 11th month. Or perhaps St Crispen's Day (gentlemen of England, now abed etc.). But in the end it's going to be St Swithin's Day. It'll just piss down. :(
 
In fact if she doesn't make the end of March, are there any auspicious dates for a retrospective deal?

D-Day, certainly. Then there's the 11th day of the 11th month. Or perhaps St Crispen's Day (gentlemen of England, now abed etc.). But in the end it's going to be St Swithin's Day. It'll just piss down. :(

All fool’s day!
 
In fact if she doesn't make the end of March, are there any auspicious dates for a retrospective deal?

D-Day, certainly. Then there's the 11th day of the 11th month. Or perhaps St Crispen's Day (gentlemen of England, now abed etc.). But in the end it's going to be St Swithin's Day. It'll just piss down. :(
Crispin & Crispian; both forriners
 
Nah she'll make it - think it's an exercise in killing time now. She can't collapse too quickly, there might be enough time for an election or a referendum or something...
In some Christmas ghost story fashion, we'll discover that she actually died the day after the 2017 election, murdered in a wheatfield by a farmer worried about future subsidies. Yeah, Jacob Rees-Mogg, you've been destroyed by a shade! :mad:

She'll be forever commemorated as the Cunterville Ghost.
 
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