Why Are The Leavers So Scared?

[Canary42]

Why are the Leavers so frightened of a second referendum ? It can't be the cost, which is trivial considering the Brexit expenditure over the last 3 years. And surely given the appalling intransigence shown by the EU, and their anti-British attitudes during the last 2½ years, this would turn even more people against them. So logically, a second referendum should return a stronger Leave majority. So there's nothing for the Leavers to object to.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//The next General Election is going to be interesting, when the avid remainer MPs are punished//

Indeed. Every Tory and every Labour Remainer MP has lost his Leave voters. And as the Brexit issue crosses party lines it's difficult to imagine who'll end up in Parliament after the next General Election, and what party will be able to form a government.

[Ric.ror]

VETUSTE - Please may I borrow some or all of your answer too?

[ichkeria]

It was, of course Brexit supporting MPs who formed to bulk of the dissenters on the Tory benches.

I suspect however that there’s probably a sizeable body of uninformed public opinion that think a lot of anti Brexit MPs have stopped Brexit.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Please may I borrow some or all of your answer too?//

For any purpose you see fit, RicRor.

[Theland]

We need Germany to invade Europe again, then we can ride to the rescue AGAIN.

[New Judge]

"I suspect however that there’s probably a sizeable body of uninformed public opinion that think a lot of anti Brexit MPs have stopped Brexit."

You can exclude all the Labour MPs who voted against the deal yesterday. Their task is to destabilise the government (not that it needs much help with that) and so can be expected to vote against any government proposal. Of the rest, they included both Remainers and Leavers. The vote didn't thwart Brexit because Brexit would never have been the result. The result would have been BRINO with no unilateral means of escape from a treaty which may have led to the break up of the UK (among many other things). Apart from anything else, no government should agree to a treaty from which there is no get-out clause and in fact I don't know of any that have ever been signed (perhaps apart from those which formally ended a war) where such a condition might prevail. The puzzle is why so many MPs saw fit to support the deal.

[gulliver1]

BREXIT" Never in the field of Human Conflict " has so much been owed to so many by so few, = [MPs] vote tonight!