So the latest vote on the Brexit withdrawal agreement happened last night.
It wasn’t expected to to well, and it didn’t go against expectations.
Tonight, there is a vote on whether or not to take no-deal off the table. If it stays on the table, the UK will go full steam ahead and damn the torpedoes. Or they might try and wish their way out of the EU. Either way, bad things happen when you reject reality and substitute your own.
If no deal is taken off the table, as I’m hoping saner minds (or motivated self-interest) will prevail, then the UK needs to ask the EU for an extension. That’s still not a given, because I think that the EU is getting (rightfully) fed up with this whole shitshow.
If we do get the extension…. then what? There’s still no workable deal. Labour just wants a general election, in the assumption that it can do nothing much better than the Tories just did (but hey, at least they’ll be in power!). The ERG and Boris are foaming at the mouth at the prospect of making money while everything burns around them (but at least we have blue passports – made in France!).
My preferred option is another referendum, where people who realize that they were lied to, promised impossible things and were given the wrong targets to hate and fear, vote to rescind this idiocy. There are also millions of new young voters who are eligible to vote since the madness began – and a significant majority of those are against Brexit. If the worst comes to pass and the voting public still decides to press on with it, then fine, let the UK go to hell in its corner, because it frankly doesn’t deserve anything better.
