Quote Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry View Post
That is hilarious, how people try to rewrite history. Nowhere was it stated that a no-deal was the preferred option. That tweet listed by Stolly shows so many comments and statements (including in the official referendum document itself) about different trade deal options. No deal was never the preferred option. It is very much a case of now that the unicorn deal has not materialized people are retrospectively deciding that No-deal was the will of the people.
No one is claiming it is the preferred option, it is just preferred to the one May has put before the House.


You have to go back pre-referendum to get your head around what we were voting for with a Leave vote based on literature, campaigning, politicians on both sides.....


1. Cameron would immediately invoke Article 50.

2. We could expect an emergency budget and an economic downturn.

3. a two year process working out the arrangements for leaving and a future plan.

4. to be out by June 2018, with a Free Trade arrangement so long as a suitable arrangement could be agreed by both parties.

52%, 17.4 million voted for that.

There are no unicorns in there.

We were on course for this (without the budget and downturn) when we went to a General Election, just 9 months behind as Cameron had gone and May wisely waited and did some prep before invoking article 50.

At the General Election both Tory and Labour manifestos set out exactly this plan, with only minor nuances between them.

Since then we have seen a very accomplished wrecking attempt by a bunch of MPs, who had they declared their hand in the General Election campaign, might not have won their seats.