Interesting to see the spin being put on that by-election. A swing from Labour to the Conservatives? With UKIP doubling their %.

The last bit is not a surprise but the first?

However, I fear it is all irrelevant and the Brexit fix is becoming increasingly clear, at least to my paranoid mind.

One thing I never got until now was why May ever bought her WA back to the table. The backstop meant it was doomed to failure. There is no way the DUP and the ERG* could ever support it. A no-go from day 1. I get why the EU insisted on it, because it allows them to effectively stop us making outside trade deals to the extent where we never truly leave. And that is the crux of this. They have to protect their own inefficient industry, with us as a cash cow by way of us proles being stuck with high prices whilst the banking elites get to fill their pockets.

So May knows it will not pass.

But she has to try hence the farce of the last couple of months.

Leaving her with no other choice than reaching out to Labour. To Corbyn, who I genuninely believe is a true leaver, who had his hands tied by his own party over a second referendum which May reluctantly agrees to with an exaggerated sigh.

Meaning that when this eventually becomes reality, and Remain wins the day, the blame with be laid at his door. May will go, a supposed 'Leaver' will replace her and spout off a load of BS about how the country needs time to heal before we can revisit the issue of actually leaving once again.

And then the status quo is back.

There is a sort of Machiavellian wonder to it all.

Question is, what then? LOL. Hell of a question.

Oh and the '*' bit concerning the ERG. I suspect that they worked out much of this a few weeks ago, hence why many started switching support, reasoning that the best way to scupper May's plan was to actually support her WA. Not sure I agree but now it makes at least a little sense.

Naturally, all of the above might be the rantings of a mad man (and this Brexit s*** does have a way of churning the old grey matter up, I will concede) but ever since the details of Mays proposed WA became clear it never made the slightest bit of sense because it was never going to happen in a million years. Now though I am convinced that it was never intended to do so.

Edited by Matov (05 Apr 2019 11.11am)

Wouldn't that happen automatically with the low turnout?

Or, if the case is upheld in the High Court that the extension was not lawful, and we automatically left by default on 29th March, since anything since that date cannot be applied retrospectively.

Imagine what £66bn could do for our NHS

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I want to believe all of what you claim about May, I really do. But you do not achieve high political office in any country by being as stupid as you claim she is.

It simply does not wash. Personally, and here I accept I am right into the conspiracy s***, I suspect her husband has played a huge role in all of this because they are in many ways a real 'power' couple. I accept that I am socially conservative with old fashioned views but I inherently distrust the motives of any politician who does not have children. I know that can be pulled to pieces in all sorts of ways but that is my gut instinct and nothing will ever change that.

May is shrewd, with an incredibly thick skin (by all political conventions she should have gone even though she won the leadership challenge because of the amount of votes cast against her) and she does not come back to us with a deal that she knows is going to fail without having a bloody good reason.

The DUP alone are reason it is a non-starter. And the DUP are the real deal when it comes to politics. This is not a game for them and I am sure they all still have to check underneath their cars for bombs along with knowing both victims and perpetrators of terrorist killings. They are a cut above your usual self serving political types we get in the UK. I am not defending them, and have never understood all that sectarian nonsense but they don't back down easily. She would have known that.

Yes, some of the ERG did back it but I suspect they worked out what was happening. Again, these are not silly people (nobody who makes it Parliament should ever be underestimated) and I believe worked it out too late.

Revoking A50 was never a goer. They need a second referendum to offer them at least a veneer of democratic accountability. May gets the Labour Party to give her that, with the backlash shared equally between them both.

In someways it deserves kudos for the cunning.

Even if it’s only half of that, it’s still pretty sobering stuff.

One thing which stymies investment, expansion and growth, is uncertainty.

I want to believe all of what you claim about May, I really do. But you do not achieve high political office in any country by being as stupid as you claim she is.

It simply does not wash. Personally, and here I accept I am right into the conspiracy s***, I suspect her husband has played a huge role in all of this because they are in many ways a real 'power' couple. I accept that I am socially conservative with old fashioned views but I inherently distrust the motives of any politician who does not have children. I know that can be pulled to pieces in all sorts of ways but that is my gut instinct and nothing will ever change that.

May is shrewd, with an incredibly thick skin (by all political conventions she should have gone even though she won the leadership challenge because of the amount of votes cast against her) and she does not come back to us with a deal that she knows is going to fail without having a bloody good reason.

The DUP alone are reason it is a non-starter. And the DUP are the real deal when it comes to politics. This is not a game for them and I am sure they all still have to check underneath their cars for bombs along with knowing both victims and perpetrators of terrorist killings. They are a cut above your usual self serving political types we get in the UK. I am not defending them, and have never understood all that sectarian nonsense but they don't back down easily. She would have known that.

Yes, some of the ERG did back it but I suspect they worked out what was happening. Again, these are not silly people (nobody who makes it Parliament should ever be underestimated) and I believe worked it out too late.

Revoking A50 was never a goer. They need a second referendum to offer them at least a veneer of democratic accountability. May gets the Labour Party to give her that, with the backlash shared equally between them both.

In someways it deserves kudos for the cunning.

So why have we been doing well economically compared to many in the EU?