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I hope this post is intended as sarcasm, and others interpret as such. There are 650 MPs in Parliament, with vastly different constituencies and agendas. You w
by dak1 8y ago
I hope this post is intended as sarcasm, and others interpret as such.
There are 650 MPs in Parliament, with vastly different constituencies and agendas. You would need 326 currently elected MPs to be on board with this plan, not even considering the possibility of election results changing those dynamics.
And at the beginning of this process it was not clear that the UK could unilaterally rescind Article 50, either, which adds further risks and complications. Not to mention the referendum itself was decided by over 33 million people casting votes.
That is a completely impractical collective action problem and a conspiracy theory on par with others like the moon landing or 9/11.
- rusk 8y ago> You would need 326 currently elected MPs They don't all have to be "in the loop" for this to work. Some of them just have to be gullible fools and we've seen a lot of that.
- mikekchar 8y agoI'm not really serious, but I do slightly wonder. You don't have to really get everybody on board, though. You just have to do such a bad job at negotiating a deal that nobody in their right mind would accept it. I think you might have to have the majority of the cabinet involved, though, so I think your point still stands. Still... Why did Boris Johnson drop out of the leader race when we was practically a shoe in for PM? I think there are some shenanigans going on here and May has a really narrow tightrope to walk to survive...