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Do you think there will be a Deal or No Deal?


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TBF there are a few voices inside the EU that want just that, are there not? I'll try to find sources/names. Most of my Europhile friends hope for some kind of grand superstate eventually.
I'm in support of a federal European state but it's a very small minority at this point, the idea has little support. The concept of sovereign nation states is simply way too strong.
 
TBF there are a few voices inside the EU that want just that, are there not? I'll try to find sources/names. Most of my Europhile friends hope for some kind of grand superstate eventually.

Closer union yes but federal superstate I doubt. Nations still want their identity, the UK voters have been told they don't have any say in anything which is completely untrue.
 
Closer union yes but federal superstate I doubt. Nations still want their identity, the UK voters have been told they don't have any say in anything which is completely untrue.
Its not untrue if you feel your mep's are not listening to the people, you know, a bit lile normal mp's.
 
Its not untrue if you feel your mep's are not listening to the people, you know, a bit lile normal mp's.

If the Uk had taken the matter seriously of voting for proper MEPs things may have been different. Instead the largest number of UK MEPs were UKIP who had no interest in either representing the UK voters or do anything other than turning up occasionally to be destructive rather than constructive. UKIP got voted in because of low turnouts and apathy of the voters.
 
This lady is for turning and turning and turning.

She's spent the last 2 week telling everyone that the deal can't be changed and Labour are idiots for thinking it can. Now she's trying to do just that for a couple more week in power.

I wonder if the amendments can be voted on irrespective of it being brought forward for a vote, common sense would say it should be possible but I'm thinking not
 
I believe Scotland has benefitted so much from the access to the European market (exports) and also as a small, yet rich country with plenty of natural resources they are quite reliant on the immigrants, both high-skilled as well as not so skilled ones. Economically they're screwed in case there is Brexit, even more so if there is no deal. I wouldn't say SNP is more anti-English than pro-Scottish, that would be rather unfair.
And also one could make a case they'd have more sovereignty in the EU than in the UK, where they have absolutely no influence on Westminster and its decisions. The anti-English sentiment, Ireland success story (and how well they are doing economically) and willingness to position themselves as opposed to Trump-Farage-ERG-Robinson-nationalist far right axis (with the Scottish being rather progressive society) all play a role too, I guess.

Except that stats show that, for example, you are more likely to be the victim of a hate crime in Scotland than in England. The idea that the Brexit vote shows Scotland is more welcoming to foreigners than the rest of the UK is a fallacy...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-44040251
 
Except that stats show that, for example, you are more likely to be the victim of a hate crime in Scotland than in England. The idea that the Brexit vote shows Scotland is more welcoming to foreigners than the rest of the UK is a fallacy...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-44040251

The idea that we're more progressive overall is a bit of a fallacy but we do vote for progressive parties consistently. UKIP haven't made any inroads at all and the most prominent Tory up here is known for basically being one of the most liberal, even if that's partly just the way she projects herself.
 
Hear Theresa May is favourite for the United job with this level of incompetence. Only when we cant make the top 4, though.
 
She is right that another referendum would divide the country further. If remains wins in the second one, brexiters would never get over it.
 
She is right that another referendum would divide the country further. If remains wins in the second one, brexiters would never get over it.

Brexiters will never be happy though, even if they get Brexit. They will just move on to the next thing to moan about it
 
She is right that another referendum would divide the country further. If remains wins in the second one, brexiters would never get over it.
Hard to imagine how it can be divided any further than it currently is.
 
BBC radio literally just cut off the opposition response. Balance for you
 
So she's calling everyone bluff (again)?

What's going to change? I'm no expert but surely the question now turns to replacing her or backing her.
 
Basically. I think she’s on the brink, basically needs to go now.

I honestly don't know what she (or anybody else) could do though.

When the house is split pretty much into thirds on which way to go there is no way forward. I actually agreed with her speech when she tried to explain that for this to work everybody will have to compromise and without that it doesn't matter if it is May, Mogg or Corbyn - none of them would get a majority at the moment.
 
I honestly don't know what she (or anybody else) could do though.

When the house is split pretty much into thirds on which way to go there is no way forward. I actually agreed with her speech when she tried to explain that for this to work everybody will have to compromise and without that it doesn't matter if it is May, Mogg or Corbyn - none of them would get a majority at the moment.
Yep, it's complete deadlock and it was always going to be this way. Of course the opposition are going to reject the deal - they are the opposition.
 
The idea that we're more progressive overall is a bit of a fallacy but we do vote for progressive parties consistently. UKIP haven't made any inroads at all and the most prominent Tory up here is known for basically being one of the most liberal, even if that's partly just the way she projects herself.

It's a clear fallacy as proven by stats and highlighted in that report. "The Scots aren't racist but the English are" is a dangerous myth and one that gets fuelled by the rhetoric of the likes of the SNP when they claim that culturally Scotland is more welcoming than other parts of the UK. It's simply not true and it's also hardly progressive to tap into that sort of nationalist and divisive thinking.
 
It keeps getting more and more shambolic. The Tories really need to put her out of her misery and send her on her way. This is no way to govern.
 
Bercow is brilliant :lol:
 
She is right that another referendum would divide the country further. If remains wins in the second one, brexiters would never get over it.

Definitely not, the country is divided and only when the reality of Brexit hits will it be divided further. Remain would keep some division certainly, your right that brexiteers will never get over it, but not increase it.
 
I honestly don't know what she (or anybody else) could do though.

When the house is split pretty much into thirds on which way to go there is no way forward. I actually agreed with her speech when she tried to explain that for this to work everybody will have to compromise and without that it doesn't matter if it is May, Mogg or Corbyn - none of them would get a majority at the moment.
She had a great deal to do with bringing about that gridlock though... She didn't have to make leading brexiteers important cabinet members or promise things she could not deliver.

Someone else might face the same situation but find a better way forward. At this point SHE is the main reason why things are where they are. People pointing at Cameron have a point but it's been two years of clusterfeck now.