In reply to Offwidth:
> You're worst than what you accuse Corbyn of if you seriously claim we are an elected dictatorship. Go and look what brought down UK governments in the past. Why do you think we have a minority goverment now?
Yes, what did ? We've had only one vote of no confidence with just one vote, in almost a hundred years, and that's just because one MP didn't make it to the commons on that day !
BTW my characterisation of the UK being an electoral dictatorship, is not from me, the term was popularised by Lord Hailsham in a famous lecture.
The legislative calendar of Parliament is determined by the government, and the FPTP majoritarian system plus party whips means that statistically speaking government bills virtually always pass the House of Commons.
> There is simply no minority government mandate for foot shooting of that level so it is highly unlikely. Royal perogative is based on the government...
Exactly...
> if May keeps pointing the gun and puts her finger close to the trigger she will almost certainly be replaced as its head.
Possibly, but do not forget, if there is a membership challenge, there is no guarantee a soft brexiter would win, in fact the conservative membership has never been so anti eu and anti immigration.
> None of your position list has even happened yet. Its all rhetoric. Damage has been done and some change is inevitable but its currently most likely we end up more like Norway, just with a bad hangover.
Actually a lot of it has already happened, at least in the minds. The UK and the EU seem to have already accepted that there would be no membership of the single market, no freedom of movement, and no customs union. In fact all of this was clearly set out in the Art 50 letter, which was not contested at all in Parliament. This ship has sailed a long time ago, the debate has moved on to how long the transition should be, but the direction is pretty clear.
However I agree that eventually, the Uk, by necessity, will rebuild its relationship with the EU pretty much as it was before, stealthily, step by step, over decades. But we're looking at 20/30 years here.
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