What happens to UK politics in the wake of this busted Brexit referendum? There are a lot of truly hacked off voters out there and I don’t see them supporting Labour and I suspect many won’t support Tory.
Regardless of what we think about Brexit, many will feel the political establishment has abandoned them. I know some on here dream of a new centre party emerging, I suspect a new far right party will also emerge, UKIP or UKIP+.
UKIP seem to have gone fucking mad with their dalliance with Tommy the horrid racist, so for sure there’s a vacuum for a “what the hell happened to Brexit, fucko’s?” party that doesn’t condone the beating of foreign school kids.
FPP simply doesn’t accommodate a multi party system, but we seem certain to get a new Farage party which will receive a decent chunk of the vote, the Tories will be split asunder if we Brexit, and I don’t yet know what will happen with Labour, though it’s probbaly the most resilient of the 3 main parties.
If Brexit doesn’t eventually happen, or we end up in a “not that bad, really” EEA type arrangement, the rationale for a centrist Chukka party recedes to being on Blair vs Corbyn grounds, and I’m not sure there’s enough appetite in the MP’s or the public for that.
So no advice was given before 13th November? Let’s not forget that 13th November was the date that MPs first asked for the advice. Caroline Lucas is doing a demolition job on this on Twitter ATM.
It’s moot really because saying NO! is so ingrained in the DUP’s psyche that even had GC’s advice been the exact opposite, they’d have found a way to disagree with it. As it is, Arlene will be blissed out this afternoon.
Anybody seen an analysis of what Cox said about the legal advice to the HoC and the ensuing summary and the details published this morning? I’m amazed it hasn’t been raised at PMQs. I suppose there was no time.