(October 21, 2018 at 3:26 am)Jade-Green Stone Wrote: Moving on, No idea what this Brexit plan is
There is no viable Brexit plan. There can't be. Any plan will basically be shit for the country and the economy. And the the country is too divided to agree to anything. No remainer is going to agree to a plan. They want Brexit cancelled. The Leave side is bitterly divided too between those who want a soft Brexit that tries to keep the best things about being in the EU and those who want an all out hard Brexit and want rid of it completely.
So the default is a hard Brexit with no deal. And regardless of the fear this happening, it's almost impossible to avoid because of the Northern Ireland issue. A hard Brexit means a border between the country of Ireland and Northern Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom. And this means the troubles come back (terrorism, shootings, bombs etc). The peace treaty that stopped the troubles insists on there being no border. The EU wants there to be a border in the Irish Sea instead. The Northern Irish party popping up the British government insist that this is unacceptable as they don't want Northern Ireland separated from the UK and they are willing to call another general election if the Tories agree to it.
So in a word, we're utterly fucked unless we can get a second referendum and stop it before next March. But the Tories want Brexit and they are the ones in power for the moment. But nor is there any viable opposition to the Tories because the leader of the opposition also wants Brexit so he can reshape the country according to his ideological beliefs. The Tories just want to asset strip the country and profit from it personally.