Sendraks wrote:

mrjonno wrote:I suspect we will just have a general election where the Tories will get a massive majority and can then decide behind closed doors what they plan to do and parliament will just rubber stamp it

Given how things are playing out for the Tories, with embarrassment after embarrassment and the noise around article 50 hitting the UK financially very hard, I'm not seeing how the Tories could get a massive majority in 2020, as things look likely to get worse for them rather than better. Its not as if the Tory party or its voters are overwhelmingly behind Brexit (and likely to get less so as their business suffer), so the passage of legislation on Article 50 in Parliament is unlikely to be smooth sailing.

I do wonder where you get these fantastical ideas from.

mrjonno wrote:What have the Tories got to do with it, your choice of government is Tory or Tory with the only real opposition being the city of London and the exchange rate on Sterling.

mrjonno wrote:Now if Blair was to come back there could be a real battle for power,

Sendraks wrote:More fantastic non-sequitur waffle that doesn't remotely address the point being made.

chairman bill wrote:Now look, Brexit means Brexit, and that clearly means Brexit, so there!

Alan B wrote:Yep. And Frying Pan means Frying Pan. So what!

mrjonno wrote:

Alan B wrote:Yep. And Frying Pan means Frying Pan. So what!

A English frying pan, made with English steel, using English oil and English bacon (with American growth hormones) to make an English sandwich

Brexit will be Titanic success, says Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has said Britain will make a “Titanic success of Brexit” and compared himself to the dog strangled by Michael Heseltine as he collected a comeback of the year at the Spectator Awards on Thursday night.

“We are taking the machete of freedom to the brambles of EU regulation,” he said. “And we are in the process of creating something immensely positive for both sides of the Channel, a new European partnership between a strong UK and a strong EU. Believe me, that’s what people of this great continent want to achieve.”

He said he believed that Europe was coming to terms with the UK’s departure. “In the words of our great prime minister, they understand that Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a Titanic success of it.”

“It sank,” said former chancellor George Osborne, who was presenting Johnson with his award.

mcgruff wrote:Does anybody think Brexit will still go ahead? Staying must be the more likely option now.

Beatsong wrote:I think nunnington's right that the pressure on Labour to approve it could be irresistable. Any general election soon is going to be bad for Labour. One called for the very reason that they have rejected the will of the people expressed through the referendum will be worse than bad.

However, it's possible that the legal ruling will result in things being drawn out interminably, with article 50 not able to be invoked according to schedule, and constant rejections of whatever the government proposes on technical and procedural grounds.

If that happens, it's also possible that the economy and sterling will go ever further down the shitter in the meantime, and that people will get more of a tangible taste of just what a disaster they voted for. Then anything could happen. The lib dems have said they'll campaign for the next election on rerunning the referendum, and they're the second party in a lot of marginal tory seats. Corbyn will probably be gone by then.

Who knows...

British newspapers react to judges' Brexit ruling: 'Enemies of the people'

The high court determined that MPs must have a say on triggering Article 50. For some front pages, this was a display of judicial independence too far

High court Brexit ruling: what does it all mean?

On Thursday morning, the high court ruled that parliament – and not the prime minister by use of prerogative powers – would need to trigger Article 50 to start the UK’s exit from the European Union.

On Thursday evening, a portion of the British media exercised its own prerogative: to attack the judges behind the ruling.

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In any case, if the UK stays in the EEA, the worst of Brexit's averted, and it'd probably be enough to keep the UK together for a few more years.