Brexit

[Stagger]

Will we be out by the end of the week?

[Derby Tup]

End of week or never?

I think the latter

[noel]

Right, here's the question: How annoyed would people be if it's decided Brexit's not achievable. I can imagine the national conversation would be something along the lines of:
Remainers: See, we told you it was a daft idea.
Leavers: It would have been fine if you hadn't messed it up for us.
Repeat for the next 40 years.

[Derby Tup]

But Noel it’s the will of the people

[Stagger]

Can a will be contested?
Or does a referendum carry any weight?

Roll on our next general election.
Gunner be some sad faces.

[Muddy Retriever]

Right, here's the question: How annoyed would people be if it's decided Brexit's not achievable.

I think you’re being deliberately mischievous posing the question like that. How can it not be achievable for the fifth largest economy in the world to exist outside the EU when about 170 other countries around the globe somehow manage to do. If on the other hand you ask how annoyed will I be if the Remain dominated Parliament goes against the will of the majority as expressed in the 2016 referendum when they had promised to faithfully enact the result, then obviously furious. But no longer surprised, they have been undermining it from day one. But if they think that is the end of the story then they are wrong. The genie has been let out of the bottle, it will be impossible to put back.

[Muddy Retriever]

Can a will be contested?
Or does a referendum carry any weight.

Mark Twain is supposed to have said “if voting made a difference they’d make it illegal”

[noel]

I think you’re being deliberately mischievous posing the question like that. How can it not be achievable for the fifth largest economy in the world to exist outside the EU as about 170 other countries around the globe somehow manage to do. If on the other hand you ask how annoyed will I be if the Remain dominated Parliament goes against the will of the majority as expressed in the 2016 referendum when they had promised to faithfully enact the result, then obviously furious. But no longer surprised, they have been undermining it from day one. But if they think that is the end of the story then they are wrong. The genie has been let out of the bottle, it will be impossible to put back.

I was definitely meaning the latter. By "achievable", I meant can it be agreed on in Parliament and therefore enacted.

[Graham Breeze]

But Noel it’s the will of the people

I am trying to forget that.

[Oracle]

I am trying to forget that.

You are in good company. So is the PM, a large majority in the commons, and the entire House of Lords ( whose members are probably too senile to remember whether they are trying to forget it, or whether they just forgot it by accident)

On a previous discussion comparing proper universities like Imperial, Stanford and MIT, with others such as oxbridge, it occurs to me that one Diane Abbott is Cantab. Coming to which Seamus Milne is Oxon. I definitely prefer and understand the math taught at Imperial compared to the new math seemingly taught at Cantab , although I suspect Abbott would claim that makes me prejudiced much as you said!