According to Spreadsheet Phil, Bojo has no mandate for leaving the UK without a deal.
Phillip Hammond will warn Boris Johnson and other Brexiteer party leadership candidates they have ‘no mandate’ for No Deal today.
The Chancellor will claim that leaving on October 31 without a deal amounts to ‘hijacking the result of the referendum, and in doing so, knowingly to inflict damage on our economy and our living standards’.
Mind you he does have one thing right.
In a speech to the CBI tonight, he will round on those who claim leaving without a deal is the only ‘legitimate Brexit’, saying: ‘On the populist Right, there are those who claim the only outcome that counts as a truly legitimate Brexit is to leave with No Deal.
That is absolutely correct. Sure, we could have negotiated a Canada style trade deal. However, leave means leave – and that means leave the lot.
‘Let me remind them – the 2016 Leave campaign was clear that we would leave with a deal.
‘So to advocate for No Deal is to hijack the result of the referendum, and in doing so, knowingly to inflict damage on our economy and living standards, because all the preparation in the world will not avoid the consequences of No Deal.’
Your campaign, old chum, was nothing more than wave after wave of scaremongering. What was important was the ballot paper.
I don’t see anything about a deal there, do you? The question mentioned nothing about a deal – it was leave or remain. Leave won. Once we have left, we can do all the deals we want, but to suggest that a deal was a necessary part of the agreement and we voted accordingly is a lie and it is to hijack the result.
And I would suggest that I am not alone on this.
Survation just published its latest polling numbers for next week’s European elections, and they’re not pretty reading for the Tories.
The Conservative Party fell 4 percentage points from last month to 12%, while Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party surged to a six-point lead on 30%. Labour was seen at 24%.
The pro-EU Liberal Democrats , Greens and Scottish National Party all gained, with 11%, 6% and 4% respectively, while Change UK, the pro-EU vehicle created by former Labour and Conservative politicians, is unchanged on 4%.
Okay, caveat polls and all that – but they are all pointing in the same direction here and the numbers are significantly large not to take heed. A sense of anger and betrayal is bubbling to the surface. There will also be the quiet Brexiteers who may yet boost those numbers further.
For a while now, the anti-democratic remainers have been bleating about a people’s vote to overturn the outcome of the one we had in 2016. Well, it looks like they are going to get their way on Thursday and leave will win again. If Farage storms home this week, then the people will have voted. Or is that not a people’s vote?
As for Spreadsheet Phil, why would anyone take notice of what that nonentity has to say? His ship is sinking – hopefully without trace and good riddance to her and all who sail on her, for they have betrayed this nation and made us an international laughing-stock.
You’re right there was nothing on the ballot about a deal or a no deal. I seem to remember the Leave position being the EU would be biting our hands off to do a deal because ‘they need us more than we need them’. Nobody said ‘we’ll trade on WTO terms, a brilliant arrangement strangely overlooked by major economies and instead used by small economies that do very little trade with each other’, can’t for the life of me understand why? Of course back then we were going to do free trade deals with loads of fast growing economies, nobody seemed to mention at the time those deals are worth buttons in comparison to the deal we’re exiting, and besides those ingrates are prioritising deals with the EU anyway! But not to worry, once we take back control, we can make up the shortfall by becoming US rule takers! Now, I’m just wonder if there are any political lobbyists who will inexplicably pay for me to start a new life in the US once we take back control?
Yes, they did mention WTO terms as a possible option if no reasonable deal could be achieved. It was always on the cards. You have a short memory. We would survive perfectly well. If you want to go to the USA, fine, go.
The problem with all of this is that “Leave”, quite reasonably campaigned on the basis that both the UK and the EU would negotiate in good faith and on a rational basis and that the PM would behave similarly.
Instead, the EU has behaved (as it frequently does), in a manner which appears irrational to us, because it is more concerned with ensuring its own survival and the survival of its federal European dream. Hence the Withdrawal Agreement being little more than a naked attempt at binding the UK into the European Union on a permanent basis (both politically and financially), while crippling our ability to trade freely with the rest of the world. You’d have to be a Quisling or complete moron not to understand this.
If the Withdrawal Agreement was anything other than an obvious poisoned chalice then it would have been passed already and none of Treason May’s sweeteners will make it any less poisonous to Tory OR Labour MP’s.
BRExit has so poisoned the political discourse and alienated the electorate at large to such an extent that it must be got rid of one way or the other, not for any reasons related to BRExit at all, but to ensure the survival of the Tory party.
So either Boris or Raab needs to become PM and lance the boil or we need a general election to find new consensus and new government.
Typo Alert!!!
I sometimes think we might have to wait that long before we get a proper Brexit but I think you meant 2016.
Oh yeah. Corrected.
The EU won’t “bite our hands off” if its quislings here give it all it wants and more. This, they are still trying to do and there is still a possibility that they might.
But these morons can’t even prostrate themselves properly. If we do leave without a “deal”, I can’t imagine the mindset of the euro neros will change, but those who live in the real world of business might change their minds for them.
Somewhat irrelevant if the Quislings cannot deliver on their treasonous BRINO treaty.
Put a one Euro coin on the table.
Say “This is the deal.
You take the Euro.
We walk away.”
And we all can claim that this was not a No-deal exit.
“Call us next week when you want to do some serious negotiation.”