26-03-2019, 13:13
(24-03-2019, 03:50)St Charles Owl Wrote: Out of curiosity, if there was a general election, what difference would that make? Neither the Tories nor Labour have said they would campaign on stopping Brexit, the Lib Dems and SNP I believe have but they won’t be a deciding factor in a GE anyway. Surely the only way to stop this now is for May to revoke Article 50, or for May to agree to a new referendum, a GE might not move us any further forward at all.
If nothing else it'd force the two big parties to actually agree and put in writing how they envisage Brexit being anything less than a disaster A Labour (or Labour led) government might be able to negotiate something different with the EU, and would obviously be better for the country in other ways simply by virtue of not being Tories.
I think we are way past the point where anyone is going to get what they want, and parliament is paralysed so it has to go back to the people somehow. A second referendum obviously is the only option that makes sense at this point. It's the most democratic way of deciding the matter, and it means that MPs can pass the buck.
Problem is a tory government is unlikely to go for either.