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Thread #162855   Message #3892913
Posted By: DMcG
09-Dec-17 - 03:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Voters can use the next general election to have their say on a final Brexit deal, Michael Gove has said

That is an interesting statement to be making. It looks like breaking ranks on the matter of whether Friday's deal was a good one or not. And unless the election is before March 2019 it isn't actually true. We could, of course, try to agree changes, but that would require the EU to be willing, which is not in the voters gift. The agreement restricts the kind of changes that can be made, because of the Good Friday Agreement, so we can't just 'diverge' - it is much more restrictive than that.

Then it is really bad politics to make elections about a single issue when the reality is the people you elect have to deal with a large number of issues.