the issue is that a permanent brexit sucks the air out of the room, there's nothing that can be done except brexit. Look at May, her entire premiership has been all about brexit. for businesses there can be no long term planning, for political parties there can't be any agenda only brexit, its stopping anything from happening.
What if Theresa May said there would be THE final vote only after Gaben released Half Life 3?
amirite gamers? xd
(please don't ban me, I think its obvious )
Stubbornness. Part of me thinks she wants to have some kind of legacy, but anyone with more than six brain cells should know that her legacy is going to be downright atrocious.
Oh my fucking god. We are so done with Britain's shit right now that honestly I'd like them thrown out of the EU at this instant. Because you couldn't set on a deal that'll "suit" UK, it doesn't mean that EU is at fault. You were given time, you didn't agree on anything. Why should we extend the time?
Just throw out all the Leavers, they want to leave anyway.
You're not wrong, but any unstable situation starts to seem stable if it goes on long enough.
Like, look at Taiwan. You would imagine that you couldn't build up a large economy in a country not recognized by the United Nations, and who China has threatened to destroy should they declare independence. But life goes on pretty normally, and plenty of foreign companies are investing in what is nominally a war zone. Hell, I'm typing this post on a laptop made in Taiwan. A hard Brexit might be bad for Britain, but it's certainly not as bad as a full-scale war... if Taiwan can push that issue to the side, Britain can learn to live with Brexit always being six months away.
That kind of makes it harder to actually resolve the Brexit question the further it goes on. If May can't pull the trigger on Leave, and the next government can't pull the trigger on Remain, I think it will likely continue on until some big upset happens, some kind of war, probably, or maybe a severe economic depression. May doesn't seem to be able to actually execute on Leave, for numerous obvious reasons. At some point, the Conservatives will lose an election, and almost certainly to an anti-Brexit party. If they can pull off a formal Remain, either through a second referendum or even just parliamentary vote, that would clearly settle things - but if they can't, that sets the stage for a permanent Brexit, and there's big obstacles to cancelling Brexit even if a pro-EU party or coalition takes power.
From my understanding it can't stay in a permanent Schroedinger's Brexit dillema because the EU has no interest in the instability and uncertainty of a country unable to decide werether it wants to leave or not. I'm surprised they've allowed such a long delay when they've set all of their negotiation points down and Britain has already expended all of the time they were meant to use to decide on werether they're actually leaving the Union or not, along with the time to plan for what they'd do if they actually left instead of some batshit notion that the european peasants will just bend over and give them whatever deal they want if they push the matter enough times.
Nobody wants the uncertainty, but the EU has a very good motive for giving Britain every possible opportunity to change their minds. They'd never agree to just granting a five-year extension, but do it a few months at a time? That's easy to agree to. After all, maybe by October Labour will be in power, and can cancel the whole thing, or maybe May might actually take the time to negotiate a softer exit after her deal was voted down (the EU gave multiple options, May chose a very hard one). There's no guarantees of that, but there's a hope, and people will put up with a lot if there's hope.
Plus, to be more cynical, the more of a dumpster fire Brexit is, the better it serves to dissuade other Euroskeptics. Politicians elsewhere might look at May's inability to actually follow through on Brexit, and decide not to try pushing for their own Article 50.
Her legacy is gonna be her own dungeon cell for how much of a disaster she created.
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