Quote Originally Posted by Stolly View Post
This is such a skewed view on the actual things that happened. Have you already forgotten the DUP and the f**king ERG (including deal old Boris) “democratically” voting against Theresa May’s deal? A huge swathe of Labour and opposition MPs would have voted through Brexit yonks ago had TM done the right thing, straight after the referendum, and made the negotiation of Brexit terms with the EU an all parliament issue. Instead, because the whole damn point of this ludicrous exercise in the first place was all about, and nothing else about, the unity of the Tory party, and to reel back in their far right nutcase wing that was deserting to the UKIP, TM made the tories the party of hard bastard Brexit.

A softer more representative Brexit would have happened ages ago.

Now though with TM and now BJ turning turning and turning the screw and increasing the pressure to the max, the country is totally and utterly divided and never the twain shall meet
I thought you'd gone Stolly, you can't resist coming back. I see your commentating style remains unchanged though.

The ERG was opposed to May's deal because they didn't see it as a proper Brexit and they weren't wrong. It would have kept us in the EU's regulatory orbit and would have allowed the EU to keep us in the Customs Union. To all in intents and purposes we would still be in large parts of the EU but without any say. The Conservatives had stood on a platform of no-deal being better than a bad deal and this was a very bad deal. Yanis Varoufakis called it an agreement that only a country defeated in war would sign.

The DUP were opposed because it kept Northern Ireland not only in the Customs Union but fully in the Single Market. They would be governed by Brussels with no representation. It breached the Good Friday agreement.

Coming to Labour, the deal May negotiated was very close to what they said they wanted. It kept the UK close to the EU. Of all people they should have been pleased to vote for it if as they say they wanted to honour the result of the referendum. Except what most of them really want is to overturn the result of the referendum. The last thing they want is a deal.