Because now we have a better, more specific idea of what Brexit would involve, and people could decide whether they want to go ahead with that. Because of the wording of the question set in the first referendum, it facilitated a decision in principle only. It's like the situation if I go shopping with the intention of buying a coat (because I've made that decision in principle) but I find all the coats in the shops aren't in the exact style I'd prefer and are quite expensive anyway, so I make a second decision now I have the detailed information. I may decide to go ahead with the purchase. Or I may not.
Citizen Cameron was quite clear in his Chatham House speech what "leave" meant. Out of all institutions EU. Only one question left now : how badly does the EU want that 39bn ... ??
He did his Neville Chamberlain impersonation. But he did at least recognise the piece of paper he returned with was worthless, and declared referendum war. However he was consumed with too much hubris to finish the war he started. This past week Citizen May gave us her Chamberlain impersonation. She proclaimed "peace in our time" . Parliament decided the piece of paper she returned with was worthless. Now, if anyone can confirm that the UK can legally unilaterally declare zero tariffs on EU imports irrespective of what the EU conversely do, you will have my gratitude,
I think under WTO rules we have to have the same tariffs for any country where we don't have a trade deal. So we can have zero tariffs for all imports.
Non EU nations I would offer continuation under the EU deal for at least 12 months, with an explicit commitment to begin the new horse-trading immediately after that. The rationale being that for any nation X, any WTO regime agreed between the EU and the UK could in fact be worse for X than under their current EU deal (so they may be better served to sit tight for now) .
This is why leaving with 'no deal' is a very bad idea. All the current deals fall and we have the option of using WTO terms for everyone or our own choice of lower tariffs for everyone. We can't pick and choose. There are also export quotas in some EU deals and our share will be zero.
Hence what I stated. If some nation X wants to be a "chancer" on day 1 rather than wait for a bit, then they may themselves on the end of a pyrrhic victory.
So Cameron was aware that the European Open Skies agreement would end as far as the U.K. was concerned along with hundreds of other agreements. Pity he didn’t comunícate that to everybody else so that it was not only those who took an interest in European governance that knew
A list of hundreds is never going to be read (how many times in your life have you as an individual been given a list of hundreds of items and been asked to give a "binary" answer - yes/no, agree/disagree etc - to every one ?? ) . The things that were deemed top of the list for major demographic groups (immigration, financing, food production etc) were out there in public discourse as things affected by the final decision.
The whole 45 min speech is online. He was also clear that there would be no second referendum if the first decreed "leave" .
And he said that a leave vote would mean leaving all EU institutions? I'd rather not search a 45 minute speech for a single sentence. As for any second referendum, he's really not in a position to make that decision and couldn't have known what situation we'd be in. The overspending, cheating and being funded by a hostile foreign power of the various leave campaigns wasn't something that he knew about, for example.
But he didn't have the power to say that as the legislation passed didn't require it. Your basically saying that if the PM lies the House of Commons has to endorse that lie to avoid the electorate being disappointed...
So, as everyone knew in advance, the Tories weren't about to potentially vote themselves out of office. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas and the DUP aren't going to give up the gift of a lifetime...a Prime Minister who they can lead around by the nose. May's going to be weakest as and when she picks a direction that has half a hope of getting through Parliament. Once she looks like giving one side of her party what they want, the other might think that she has to go to avoid the Brexit that they don't want. All today proves is that Corbyn isn't smart enough and that's hardly news. What a wretched bunch they all are but we voted the ****ers into parliament. We're getting exactly what we deserve!
Neville Chamberlain won a no confidence vote 281 to 200, but knowing full well he had a majority of 200 he knew which way the wind was blowing and resigned The Dire Leader won a no confidence vote 325 to 306, but we're supposed to ignore the fact that means 2/3 of her majority voted against her...
