Brexit
Son of Grexit
Son of Frexit . . .
—From a speech in “Equus”
I don’t know if the government is going to survive after last week. It’s pretty clear, however, that May’s Brexit deal isn’t going to get through Parliament. Then what?
If May remains in control of the issue, her subsequent failure to renegotiate better terms with the EU is going to be viewed as a “stab in the back” by the Brexiteers. Why not give them control of the issue? Let Davis or BoJo go to Brussels with the authority to make whatever better deal they can, and see what happens.
Then, when they inevitably come home empty-handed, the fantasy of a cherry-picked deal will be extinguished, and the logical next move is the second referendum.