It means having to pick up halfway through, hogtied by someone else's withdrawal agreement in the full knowledge of how the EU are going to behave and facing the very likely prospect of failing to reach a trade deal leaving the UK in stasis for ever.
If I was an MP now I would make TMPM finish what she has started. There is no way I would pick up this time bomb.
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What would happen if Theresa May resigned (or got run over by a bus) and no one was willing to do the job?
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If we do TM deal the trade deal will never be agreed, or if it is it will be so utterly shit.
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Technically, if TMPM quits and no-one else is willing to do it, The Queen has to step in and do it herself.
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Is that true?
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Heh! They’ll find some mug who was going to resign anyway and fancies a bit of extra book money in a few years.
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there is no need to negotiate a trade deal now, we're setting all our tarriff schedules at 0% and according to WTO we need to apply that universally
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TMPM's deal just leads to customs union in the end, doesn't it? I can't see how we are ever going to agree anything less than that given the border issue. The backstop is such a rubbish option for both sides.
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I reckon we will end up with May's deal plus customs union minus backstop, possibly put to a referendum with the option to remain.
And Jacob Rees Mogg will spontaneously combust. (We can only hope.)
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Given the "ambitious" level of market access we want for both goods and services, full alignment is almost inevitable.
The EU simply cannot offer us terms that would allow us a competitive advantage in regulatory terms. It would make no sense for them.
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They are happy to include customs union in the political statement and in practice there would be no problem if we wanted to go for that, as it would remove the backstop issue.
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Boris Johnson. Raaaab. Loathsom, probably. David Davis. Esther McVey. People who really believe in a hard brexit, or who don't care what happens and just want to be PM (Johnson).
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Priti Patel would be up for it ofc
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I wouldn't do that job for all the money in the world. TMPM must feel like total shit. Assuming she can feel.
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Only Duncan Smith can negotiate us out of this mess
http://www.skibbereeneagle.ie/web/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Iain-Duncan-Smithmorgan.jpg
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I'll do it
you just have to go and shout at Johnny Foreigner in a really loud voice 'Brexit means Brexit!'
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And not forgetting to drop in references to a man on the Clapham omnibus.
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