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• Elderly Cynic commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
  Strictly, no. The winner would become the former, but the Queen would ask it (*) to form a government only if it carried almost all of the Conservative MPs with it. Let's say there was a reaction against the ERG and Hammond became leader on a platform of a second referendum and a clear desire to cancel the fiasco; how many of the ERG would (effectively) resign the whip? It needn't be many if Corbyn were smart enough to arrange a deal with the SNP and Lib Dems. I doubt that would happen, but it's not impossible. (*) It's unclear...
• JayGee commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
  “It's academic in that Maybot "won" (for certain values of won that is).” It’s also academic (in the context of Brexit) in that whoever found themselves “winning” the musical chairs competition which is the Conservative leadership election process would be hostage to the same entrenched factionalism, religious zealotry, and cynical bandwagon jumping inside and outside of the Conservative party as May has been for her entire term as PM, and equally vulnerable to the “no deal is better than any deal” sect of Brexitry using and abusing parliamentary procedure to filibuster their way to their desired outcome. I honestly don’t...
• Greg Tingey commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
  “no deal is better than any deal” sect of Brexitry... The correct terminology for this grouping is a: Cargo Cult I (maybe) foresee both main parties splitting, actually, the tories along Brexit lines with the US-style republicans forming a "new UKIP" & the right of labour fleeing Corbyn's Venzuelan tendencies ... we might even get a Social Democratic party - we should be so lucky! More realistically, a second Referendum is getting more likely ... But would "Remain" win this time? I hope so....
• JayGee commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
  “More realistically, a second Referendum is getting more likely ...” Too late. Enough of the fundamentalist Brexists would regard a second referendum (regardless of result) as (in their warped terms) a betrayal that it would simply redouble the bile-spitting hysteria. I’d give it three months before the first would-be Thomas Mair[1] came out of the woodwork... “But would "Remain" win this time? I hope so.” It really doesn’t matter anymore. The damage is done and, (while I’d hope for a healthy margin for remain too) EU membership or otherwise is almost irrelevant in comparison with the lasting effects the first...
• Charlie Stross commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
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