Ralph, what’s your take? (Your OPINION, not bribe…geez…in the Drumpf era the terms of discussion have CHANGED! 
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It’s a little shocking that this has happened. It does appear that pulling the vote on her Brexit plan last minute caused turmoil and disquiet. If the Tories believe that they are done for in the next election because of the unpopularity of May’s plan, they might in fact dump her today.
Wow, a country spiraling into chaos because of wobbly leadership and likely Russian interference.
That’s a first.
Auto-erotic Brexphixiation. Choking yourself to death to own the continentals.
Stop punching yourself, UK. Call Brussels, say “whoops, that was dumb, may we please be economic best friends again?”
Several leading Brexiteers, including former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, have said loudly that they think they could get a better deal with the EU, and are likely to enter a race to replace her.
Oh good. It looks like they’re going to take their cheese submarine and make a new one out of Swiss.
Of course, the Brexiteers would insist that it would be disrespecting the will of the voters to back out. Never mind that the vote was fairly close (51.9%) and tainted by Russian meddling, misinformation, and outright lies. The voters have spoken, dammit! And votes have consequences. (Sounds familiar, somehow.)
Curiously enough, those same folks insist that it is completely impossible to take the (now much clearer) picture of what a Brexit would actually look like, as opposed to the fairy tale that was sold in June 2016, and put it back before the voters again.
Because that would be … uh … disrespecting the will of … the … er … voters. (Incoherent mumbling and handwaving follows.)
Posing something as consequential as a permanent exit from an international economic union as a simple-majority referendum was insanity from the start. The status quo should get not a single “no” worth of deference?
Had Brexit been posed with something like a two-thirds bar to clear, or even 60-40, we wouldn’t be having these conversations in the first place. As if we’d amend the Constitution here with the approval of 25+1 states.
Fucking idiots.
May’s EU negotiations and her delays only to stay in power (screw the country’s future) do resemble Trump/Republicans, and their Russian Masters. EU negotiations are done. Over. Says the EU. So without a vote on the negotiated deal, the UK is left with a total break.
Most economists advise that any Brexit would be an economic “challenge” to the country; an unnegotiated break would be a disaster. The EU has offered UK to remain, subject to a second referendum last I heard. The first was misinformed and corrupted by Russia and Trump-like liars in the UK, as others (e.g., @brian512) have pointed out.
“I don’t think we will be leaving the European Union on the 29th of March.”
I don’t get this statement. If she loses, and they fall into chaos, the hard Brexit happens in March. Staying requires action, which requires enough order to take action.
I suspected this was in the wind when Dominic Raab resigned from her government - her chief negotiator for Brexit quit right after delivering the proposed agreement.
He and other conservatives see the chaos they’ve helped cause as an opportunity to get ahead - but may have miscalculated the growing interest in a second Brexit vote.
The challenge throws Britain’s already rocky path out of the EU, which it is due to leave in March,
Wait… I’m confused… is it the “rocky path out” that’s leaving in March, or the EU? In any case, according to this sentence, it’s not Britain that’s due to leave.
Many supporters of Brexit say May’s deal, a compromise that retains close economic ties with the EU, fails to deliver on the clean break with the bloc that they want.
Awww, what a shame.
Leading pro-Brexit legislators Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker said in a joint statement that “in the national interest, she must go.”
Given that the British party of conservatives appears to be nearly as full of evil clowns as the American one, I think it’d be better for the whole party to go.