I don’t understand this:
It seems that Parliament has voted down any consideration of alternatives such as a 2nd referendum, had already voted down May’s deal, and has also voted down a no-deal Brexit. And it seems there’s one clear and non-contradictory instruction from the Tory Bloc: to drop the Irish Backstop and resume the Troubles.
I get the impression that the Labor and Conservative parties are each trying to use brinkmanship to their own political advantage. There is no word for that, but it is really despicable.
It’s not you. Westminster is completely incoherent at the moment.
We can get some form of consensus on what they don’t want, but nothing about what they do want.
As someone has summed up:
As I mentioned on that other site, the land of Darwin is determined to win the Darwin Award.
Well this is good to know… if a hard Brexit causes the UK to devolve into the Hunger Games, there is a plan to save the Queen.
Why not? She’s virtually the only major political figure who’s thought it was a bad idea from the get-go and stuck to that.
If I were in her position… well, fuck, I wouldn’t get into her position. But she’s wasted time refusing a 2nd referendum, when a 3+ option referendum with single transferable vote would probably delegitimize the diehard hardliners.
Don’t stop watching or you might miss the Breunion Boys.
For those outside the US:
But not the same episode. That one is from December.
hmm
anne applebaum speculates that certain money launderers really wanted Brexit…
The moment the City realized that ruling the place like a pirate kingdom was going to let them centralize control back to the Eton-Oxbridge Mafia, no longer prone to social vagaries suffered by their counterparts on the Continent, the turnabout by the Establishment was inevitable. I know that Yurp is going hard Neo-Ancient Regime but it’s risk from the people-mob that the chinless fear more gigantically in their throats than anything else.
What if their tame authoritarians go bad or meet bad ends? Then there is nothing but the happy loss of Dogger Bank to save them from the zombie billions. The zombie millions at home are a more manageable problem. Throw some quant at them.
And by the way, “UK” is too short of a search term for this website.
To be fair, that’s kind of a universal political attitude at the moment.
Man. When people in positions of responsibility start standing up to these thieving bigot sexxoffender warmonger psychos, it’s gonna be epic. Any day now.
