Not obvious the DUP can back down from their current stance, even with cash. They're starting it pretty emphatically. Which I think would mean a pretty definitive "no" on Saturday.

Interesting what happens then, if so. Maybe Yoss is right #shenannigans but I suspect more likely a horrible, divisive GE. Left wing parties doing sensible things together will be the key, but I worry about that happening with current Labour and Lib Dem leaders...

There is plenty of talk of a 2nd ref amendment being attached to the deal when it goes to the Commons.
I think it will hinge on if that amendment passes.

It doesnt sound good but I dont believe anything until it is confirmed officially by going through the processes.
It could just be tough talk to get the deal through.
He says Britain has a deal, it doesn't, Boris Johnson has a deal.

The EU want a deal. They dont really care if we stay, thoughthey would prefer it, they just want the saga over.

If there is a deal they can live with, they'll do what they can to get us to put it through. If we turn it down though I believe they will go extension over no deal.

Juncker doesn’t have the power to independently refuse an extension. He’s just trying to exert some influence over those who will eventually vote on the issue by saying it in public.

To me he’s trying to say if there’s an extension it won’t be the EU’s fault.

I still feel like that’s the only way this gets resolved. Have done for most of the last 3 years.

I don’t mind having some sort of alternative vote system.

Probably, but I still don’t see any other way forward.

Vote for a referendum on Saturday?

I'm not saying this deal is all roses by any stretch but if parliament rejects this deal, than what can be expected from the EU? Two agreements with the British prime ministers, if this doesn't pass what's the realistic outcome?

Not saying this as an argument against anyone but what would corbyn and Labour change to get a deal that would pass parliament, regardless of what they would negotiate different with the EU? Is the argument to not vote this through based on the need to let people have the final say (between this deal, no deal and maybe remain)

Or, revoke. Woo.

The problem is while there might have been 3 years and 2 PMs at no point has the Government attempted to negotiate a deal that that could pass Parliament.

A Brexit deal has a two party sign off, the EU and Parliament. The government's approach has been to try to railroad their deal through with threats of no deal or by shouting down the opposition parties. The problem is even if united the Tory party never had a majority, even propped up by the DUP their government had a small majority.

This approach entrenched opinions in parliament and in the public.
Flexibility has gone out the window and camps have formed. The SNP see it as an opportunity for indyref 2 so won't budge. Lib Dems are on a power trip. Tories are scared of Farage and Labour are conflicted between the wants of their leader and the wants of the members.

So what could pass parliament?
It is hard to say this side of a GE. Depending on how close how close this deal comes a softening of it to protect worker rights and jobs would probably see it pass. That has little to nothing to do with the EU as well so wouldnt need renegotiation.

On the other side of a GE it all depends on how the seats fall, who props up who etc.
Lab or Lab coalition would lead to a softer deal attached to a 2nd ref.
More Tory numbers would see the deal pass.

A big issue currently is we have an unelected PM who has been repeatedly beaten in Parliament because he holds a majority of minus forty something. He has no real authority.

For better or worse there are three major reasons we havent left with a deal yet.
1. Gina Miller, so Parliament have to approve it.
2. May's General Election
3. May and Johnson's refusal for a cross party approach to a deal.

LivDiv wrote:

The problem is even if united the Tory party never had a majority, even propped up by the DUP their government had a small majority.

Fundamentally not true. The post-coalition gov was an unexpected Tory majority, which led to the referendum. Cameron lost, of course, but at that point:

1) Torys were the gov
2) Torys were the majority 

The minority thing happened when May gambled on a general election to get a better majority to get her deal through and failed.

tl;dr

the plan failed not because there wasn't a majority, but because torys didn't vote for tory policy

@Cinty
Sorry, I meant after May gambled on the GE. Which is the vast majority of the period that negotiations have taken place in, or at least the period all votes on a deal have taken place in.
So the point stands that negotiations have been to suit a small to no majority.