Brexit talks collapse, setting up Theresa May's likely departure

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Brexit talks between Britain’s two main political parties collapsed in a heap of finger-pointing Friday, with opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn saying the “weakness and instability” of Prime Minister Theresa May’s government had damaged negotiations.

With her own Conservative Party lawmakers openly demanding a timetable for her departure, not a day goes by without Britain’s political class guessing when May will leave office. Will it be next month? Or July? Or October?

May has promised to offer a date soon.

In the tragicomedy that is Brexit, the latest narrative casts a deeply unpopular, fatally wounded but principled prime minister doing all she can to get her unpopular Brexit deal passed in the House of Commons.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/brexit-talks-collapse-setting-up-theresa-mays-likely-departure/2019/05/17/3296f014-788d-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html?utm_term=.4084f7ce2ad2

[Bleacher Creature]

1. I honestly have no idea how this ends.

I used to think that there was no way that a hard Brexit or (at the other end of the spectrum) a revote would happen, but I'm not sure there are any other options.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Live sacrifice at Stonehenge.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. The Beeb could make some money off that!

[stopdiggin]

5. snort

good one!

Is it OK to nominate ... ?

[kimbutgar]

4. Why don't they just have a re-vote?

[brooklynite]

6. Because they don't know what the outcome will be.

Brxit supporters don't know if would be enough support for "remain", and they also don't know if THEIR version of Brexit would be successful.

[BigmanPigman]

7. That is the first explanation that I

can actually understand and makes sense. Thanks!

[Polybius]

9. What if they vote to stay?

If they do, the opposition can make a good argument for a third referendum, saying "Well we won and you got a re-vote, so now you won so we get ours." Best of three?

[Turbineguy]

8. Maybe if the UK can pull its head out of its ass

we can too.

[First Speaker]

10. Maybe the Minister of Silly Walks can replace her...

...and I'm sorry if some of our British DUers find that statement a bit flippant, but from this side of the Pond, it seems like the Python boys are running the country these days. Unlike us, which is more like *Duck Soup* as directed by Quentin Tarantino...