Scaremongering.

TICK

Do you think it is good for our democracy in either of the short, medium or long term to have a Parilament, in which 80% of the votes were casts for parties pledging to honour the 2016 result, and on the back of a huge majority agreeing to commence the A50 process, and which has failed to do so? We should be out of the EU. Parliament stopped that from happening.

Democracy is always good when it operates correctly, as it is now. That it has produced a huge mess is just the price we pay and it's a price worth paying to avoid the alternative. The alternative being of establishing the precedent of the executive getting their own way in the face of Parliament's disapproval, for down that road lies the possibility of things that neither of us would want. That you think we "should be out of the EU" does not mean that we should be. It's just your appraisal of the situation.

Boris Johnson, for all his many and varied faults, wants to go back to the country for a new mandate. Why is that not happening now? What possible justification is there for Parliament not to put itself back to the people and tell it that is has changed its mind?

He is not alone but Parliament has to assess priorities and stopping what they regard as a wrong move comes first, in their opinion, and it's their opinion which is paramount. There will be a GE of that I am quite sure.

I think we can both agree a second referendum with Remain on the ballot paper achieves nothing than even more divison and derison. Therefore a GE is the only way forward.

I don't want a referendum. I want a Parliament presented with a negotiated deal to leave and then given a free, secret, vote on whether it is acceptable. We go on striving to find that until we do.

If you have so much respect for our Parliamentarians then what is there to fear from another election? The current government has lost its majority, there is no evidence that anybody else could form a working Government so why are we not in the midst of an election campaign now?

Why on earth do you think I fear a GE? It just has to be held at the right time and in the right way, decided by Parliament and not by a government manipulating the timing for their own purposes. This is all about the supremacy of Parliament over the executive, despite the attempts by Johnson and others to portray it as Parliament v the people.

I asked my GP last week if my medication would still be available after the 31st October and he told me he couldn't say either way. There you go, no conflict of interest, admitting that the situation is unknown. I find that quite scary.

Scaremongering.

TICK

I asked my GP last week if my medication would still be available after the 31st October and he told me he couldn't say either way.

How do you know this ? Surely if a trade deal was as important to Europe as you think it is then this deal would have done 3 years ago.

These are not questions I asked him. I simply asked if it would still be available after October 31st and he told me he couldn't say. He could have said yes, he could have said no, but he told me he didn't know.

So you'd like to crash out without a deal and then re assess after the fact ?

'I expect'. Also again with the word promise. How you can hate the establishment then buy their drivel hook line and sinker? Makes no sense. Also is that an admission that the leave campaign was run on, how shall we say, exaggerated or spurious claims for the sake of political ambition? If the answer is yes, then again, why are you surprised.

Public polls indicate that no-deal is not something favoured by the majority. The leave vote was split into several different camps over 'why'. So I have to disagree with the opening paragraph.

I'd take one that allows us to implement an Australian style immigration system and allows us to trade with countries outside of the EU. That does not have to be a No deal. This will mean we have worse deals in place with EU countries, which is a byproduct of leaving, but we'll just have to see what happens with that one.

I see no reason why it is impossible to get the above as a negotiated deal, to me it's people calling for no deal who seem to be the most negative and partisan and have given up on the powers of negotiating and waiting until the last minute, simply for the sake of rabid purpose.

It's about faith for these people now, not objectivity. Polarised debate creates religious attitudes and has done on both sides and I for one have no time for it. Just like religion.

The whole Brexit process has been grossly mismanaged which is why three years later we are in this mess.

We should have taken a harder line three years ago and said we are leaving on such and such a date and will pay whatever monies we are legally obliged to pay and then started discussing the future trading relationship which could well have been sorted by now