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kleinbl00  ·  1899 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: May's Brexit Deal Crushed

The important thing to keep in mind is that none of this stuff is really sussed out. The EU referendum was effectively "do you want to break this?" and 51.89% of voters said "yes." Not clear at the time - and not clear now - is that once broken, there isn't a lot of law or agreement describing what you do with the pieces, where you sweep the dust, what you replace it with, etc.

The EU has little incentive to help out the UK on this one. Much of the UK has little reason to sign on - reefing back, saying "hold another referendum" or otherwise saying "hell to the no" about anything that comes through brings things closer and closer to calamity so there's a fair amount of brinksmanship.

It's bad enough that the PM might end up instituting war powers to mandate a bunch of law by fiat and the UK may/may not fight a war over Malta/.