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James Patrick
**@J**_amesp
The “national interest” line boils down to this:
There is no better deal on offer while leaving and leaving with no deal will kill people.
That’s the shit sandwich the government has had to bite and at this point anyone who votes down the deal is opting to kill people.
And the thing I shouldn’t need to add is that the sensible option is to cancel this sorry mess and try and pick up the fragmented pieces of Britain and start again.
However, that has to come from the government, as provoking a GE will see an ERG Tory government or a Populist Labour government intent on Brexit in much the same way.
So the second part of the shit sandwich is that by accepting the deal we prolong the existing misery until 2020
Which means two years of the nonsense and national insecurity leading us to a repeat of this very precipice when it dawns we can’t do a full trade deal in that time.
But, as I said, in the absence of anyone willing to just call it off, the national interest is not killing folk.
So this is the mess, the very real mess I’ve been trying depserately to get people to understand. There is no fantasy fix. No magic vote. Just risk, obvious, real risk of serious harm, the immediacy of the threat inching ever closer until..here we are.
I just wish it had sunk in
If May can’t get this deal through or revoke Article 50, it’s no deal. That’s it.
This is a concise thread.
If you can’t see it this morning in the face of events, there’s nothing anyone can do to help you get back to reality.