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Does anyone know what's going on? 14 March 2019 12:59 Just when you think Brexit can't get any more farcical, it suddenly does. Last night, Parliament MPs voted to reject leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement. There are so many negatives in that sentence I'm not too sure what it means. I couldn't face listening to the news programmes on my way to work this morning. There's only so many ways you can hear "there's no agreement and we don't know what's going on" without it's becoming tedious. At least I haven't heard "resolve the stalemate" for a week or so. You can't resolve a stalemate; it's the end of the game. What, IMHO, Members of Parliament fail to grasp is that whatever agreement we end up with, it's going to be a compromise. No one is going to get everything they want. Rather than "I want, I want" they should consider "I'm not getting this, but you're not getting that so on balance we're evens. Let's have a hug and get through this together". And as for "failing the democratic process by not following the clear mandate given by the referendum". 1) A democratic process recognises that not everyone votes in the same way, and should respect the views of the "losers" as well as the "winners". 2) 52-48 is NOT a clear mandate. It's probably within the limits of what you could get by chance. Flip a coin a hundred times - you'll probably get a bigger heads-to-tails outcome than 52-48.
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