17 July 2018

Where do we go from here?

Is there a way out of the Brexit mess?  The Independent is doubtful:
There is no majority in the Commons for any kind of Brexit. A “no deal” crash out Brexit advocated now by Johnson, Davis, Rees-Mogg and Farage has no majority. The Chequers deal (or its longer white paper version) will not survive the first negotiating contact with the EU27. It is aimed purely at internal Conservative Party problems. Even as presently drafted, both Jeremy Corbyn and Peter Mandelson say no Labour MP can vote for it. For Brexit to produce a Corbyn-Mandelson axis of agreement shows how far Brexit is revolutionising politics.    
There is no majority for a soft Brexit and of course, no majority for withdrawing from Brexit altogether. Thus the constitutional impasse. Democracy only requires a majority of one. It is the democratic tyranny. But democracy cannot function if there is no majority at all. 
And I can't see that re-running the referendum would resolve matters.     
        

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