Is There Any Further Point In "talks" Between Treason And Cob Et Al?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/cabinet-agrees-not-to-kill-off-brexit-talks-with-labour-and-debates-compromises-11719874
Both parties are only doing their best to thwart democracy, let's stop the pretense they are trying to move forward on this.

[dannyk13]

No.

[naomi24]

No. The whole thing is a farce.

[Zacs-Master]

There was never any point in the first place.

[ToraToraTora]

crikey, I'm on fire, 2 posts in a row and barely a dissenting voice!

[youngmafbog]

A total waste of time, but dont worry they are probably off on holiday again soon.

All more fuel for The Brexit Party. Nigel must be laughing his **** off.

[Quizmonster]

Well, I've heard of laughing one's socks off, but...

[Old_Geezer]

Further point ? Never was a point save to try and stitch the nation up.

[ludwig]

No point at all, other than to further alienate the already angry electorate and provide more material for internet satire.

[david small]

That woman exasperates me. She simply will not acknowledge her appalling behaviour, she cannot, or will not accept No from the electorate. Because she knows best.

[Baldric]

Not a lot, Treason has been a Remainer from the start, it was like putting a Fox in charge of the hen house imo.

[fiction-factory]

The majority for Brexit was very small. There's no guarantee a revote would have a brexit majority. MPs are overall Remainers. No solution has been found so far which Parliament is prepared to accept- No Deal, May's Deal and numerous indicative vote ideas have been rejected. There needs to be an attempt to find a solution which gives a form of Brexit which would be passed by the house and would perhaps win public support if there was another referendum. May would have been criticised whether she tried to talk to Labour or refused to talk.
Maybe the talks will lead to nothing being agreed and , coupled with the EUro MEP vote and maybe a May resignations may lead to a hard Brexit.
Anyone who still believes we could/should leave with with no plan and ignore the views of elected MPS are deluded

[mushroom25]

everywhere you look or listen, the word seems to be “second referendum”. should this actually be agreed by parliament, what are the realistic chances of the EU agreeing the further extension to brexit day that will inevitably be needed to provide time to hold the referendum?

[Kromovaracun]

Brexit Day is currently to be Halloween, isn't it? I'm not sure we'd need an extension to do another referendum (which in my opinion is a terrible idea but it's looking increasingly likely).

Brexit was always going to have to get through parliament, and because of Conservative hubris in 2017, doing so requires horse trading with the opposition. If the Corbyn-May talks provide some way out of this nightmare I'm all for them. Alas, they seem to be leaning toward yet another round of division and instability.

[Spicerack]

Kromovaracun
//Brexit was always going to have to get through parliament//


"This is your decision. The government will implement what you decide."
^Ring any bells, krom?

[fiction-factory]

Yes, the main problem has not been that May is a Remainer- it's that she doesn't have a sustainable majority in Parliament followin the disater of the last election campain. I doubt the talks will achieve any agreement as it's in Labour's interests for a eneral ELton

[Kromovaracun]

We live in a parliamentary system. The idea that this was never going to have any parliamentary oversight was, frankly, for the birds.

[Kromovaracun]

Yes ff Labour's priority atm seems to be for as unpopular a Brexit as possible to happen a d for the Tories to get blamed for it. Which I suppose is a coherent strategy but isn't exactly reassuring.

[1ozzy]

Brexit?

What is this new word?

[fiction-factory]

There is a difference Spicerack between a government with a majority and a parliament without a majority. Having said that the governemnt, even if it had a small majority, wouldn't have got it through because there were some on either side of the Tories who would have voted against any option on the grounds it was both too hard a brexit and too soft a brexit. Ina hung parliament teh opposition parties were certainly never going to support the government.

[douglas9401]

It's an old Arabic wword Ozzy
There's no actual equivalent in English, the best minds have it as
"The result of an ineffectual, entitled posh boy politician getting fed up playing Prime Minister and ruining the future in a tantrum"