“It’s not just the implementation period. It would be for the whole of the backstop, and that would potentially be unlimited.”
“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”
Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?
Other options being floated are designed to hold us in the EU’s orbit in the hope that we may be sucked back in.
Indeed, it would be best to pause Brexit altogether until the parties have worked out what they want – and put it to voters in a general election.
There are four steps she must take, successfully and in short order, to be in with any chance of seeing it fly.
Were it not for the backstop, May’s deal would get over the line – with support from an overwhelming majority of Conservatives, including us.
If I had been offered this before the referendum in 2016, I would have seen it as a much better alternative to the status quo inside the EU.
“The backstop would endure indefinitely, and it would tie us to the Customs Union with no escape.”
If all this is correct, the EEA route seems to me a sensible way forward if Parliament can’t agree on a deal.
I, like many colleagues, react badly to the Party’s decision to try and strong-arm me into voting for this deal.
If you want to be sure that Brexit happens, however much you might dislike this plan, there is only one course of action – vote for it.
“What I saw, over the last week and a half to two weeks, makes it very, very difficult for someone like me to support this deal.”
It is certainly not the Brexit that people voted for. As Bill Clinton might have said about the main issue: It’s the Sovereignty, Stupid!