monkey wrote:Yeah Corbs wants to get to second ref position (presumably inevitable) having been seen to exhaust all other options first. May wants to take as long as poss to run the clock down. We’ll probably still be fucking about with days left, then end up with a second ref in June.
regmcfly wrote:I don't have confidence in this no confidence vote of confidence.
Unlikely wrote:Iain Duncan Smith please go die in a well.
The Guardian wrote:On Sky’s All Out Politics, Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative Brexiter and former party leader, was asked about the Guy Verhofstadt tweet. (See 11.55am.) When it was put to him that EU figures like Verhofstadt thought the UK was engaged in an act of self harm, he replied:
I think they are actually reacting in worry now. The truth is, you cannot have a plan A if you don’t have a plan B. Negotiation always requires that the other side believe that you will do something if this fails. And they haven’t believed that.
What they need to understand is that the UK has a plan to leave should they not agree a deal.
He also claimed that in the German Chancellery people have war-gamed Brexit, “and they have come to the conclusion that the UK is almost certain to sign the agreement because they didn’t think they [the UK] were serious about having any plans for leaving without a deal.” Duncan Smith said, in the last week, the Germans had begun to change their assessment.
They’ve begun to realise this may well be an option. That’s why Guy Verhofstadt is making such a fuss about it - because he didn’t believe it, and now he does.
WorKid wrote:The stupid thing is that all their 'no deal' planning is predicated on having some sort of deal. 'mini-deals' I think they are calling it, or a managed "no deal" which is still a deal. Actual no deal would be insanity. Assuming there would be a deal and calling it no deal is insanity. Ah fuck it's all insanity.
"A Unicorn that needs to be slaughtered"RedDave2 wrote:There was a slightly older harry potter ranting on sky news about wanting a no deal exit. But with side deals, obviously. You guys are fucked.
LivDiv wrote:Truss wants daily Cobra meetings to plan for no deal.
You know those meetings that normally only happen for disastrous events like terrorist attacks, those but daily.
LivDiv wrote:Truss wants daily Cobra meetings to plan for no deal.
You know those meetings that normally only happen for disastrous events like terrorist attacks, those but daily.
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