Like most of the referendum debate No Deal is a total misnomer. No Deal would involve loads of deals and lots of arrangements. It isn't simply an absence of organisation in which everything miraculously functions. As a leaver I would have been happy with No Deal but I don't trust that this government has done everything necessary to ensure that such a change would cause no more than temporary disruption. If you don't get that giving a contract to a ferry company without ferries in a port in need of serious dredging to accommodate a ferry is a bad idea, how can anyone trust anything else you should or should not be doing? So that's how come I think REVOKE is viable option. We lost the negotiation. What the hell we would do with the next part is beyond me.
The will of the people is irrelevant. We were told in the referendum that our say was final, but Parliament already denied our will once it set itself as the ultimate approver of any deal. But in truth we voted leave under the expectation that it would happen under a stable-ish majority Tory government under Cameron. He resigned, we unexpectedly got May, she was prompted into an election by Tory opportunists who then discovered she was going to say exactly the same thing for six weeks and turn everyone against her and create a minority government in thrall to a fairly wayward party in Northern Ireland. The will of the people was denied once the fixed-term government we thought we had was turned into that new weak minority unable to govern. For all the lies that were told during the referendum, the biggest lie turned out to be that the people's decision mattered.
My solution would be to put May's Deal to a referendum asking whether it would be better or worse than our current position in the EU. If we thought WORSE than having spent nearly three years doing it the Government should be forced to call a general election having revoked Article 50 due to its own incompetence. My hope would be that in the election both major parties would largely be wiped out.
The will of the people is irrelevant. We were told in the referendum that our say was final, but Parliament already denied our will once it set itself as the ultimate approver of any deal. But in truth we voted leave under the expectation that it would happen under a stable-ish majority Tory government under Cameron. He resigned, we unexpectedly got May, she was prompted into an election by Tory opportunists who then discovered she was going to say exactly the same thing for six weeks and turn everyone against her and create a minority government in thrall to a fairly wayward party in Northern Ireland. The will of the people was denied once the fixed-term government we thought we had was turned into that new weak minority unable to govern. For all the lies that were told during the referendum, the biggest lie turned out to be that the people's decision mattered.
My solution would be to put May's Deal to a referendum asking whether it would be better or worse than our current position in the EU. If we thought WORSE than having spent nearly three years doing it the Government should be forced to call a general election having revoked Article 50 due to its own incompetence. My hope would be that in the election both major parties would largely be wiped out.