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Is a Gerneral Election the only way to break the Brexit gridlock?

Today MPs voted to extend the Brexit deadline but also voted (by about 80%) not to have a second referendum. May has pretended to offer labour MPs a deal and offered almost nothing, gone back to Brussels to renegotiate what couldn't be renegotiated and failed. Tory MPs voted to have a leadership contest but then voted to (more or less) keep her in place.

Its a PM with no authority, leading a party with no majority trying to deal with a complex historically important issue which nobody in the country can agree on. We can't extend the deadline forever and something has to give. I think eventually there will be some kind of Brexit but not a hard Brexit and nobody will be happy.

The twin truths are that the referendum voted to leave the EU and that there is no mandate to change that. Also that Brexit is more complex than anyone imagined and that it can't deliver what it promised.
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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Wouldn't help.

In signing up to the EU, we wound ourselves so tightly to an ideology so foreign to our own, it bred mistrust and animosity rather than this 'Spirit of co-operation' which it was supposed to represent.

Didn't help that Thatcher's reign sold off every national asset we had so couldn't hope to compete with other nations national assets as a result !

I think the Maastricht treaty in '92. sealed the UK's fate.

And 15 years later, a government struggling with internal debt plunged the country into poverty not seen since the war years !

Poor planning both at home (Baby boomers retiring; umpteen poor Budgets; Area health authority re-organizations; GP vs Hospital funding crisis; Universal credit....etc) and by committing so much to the EU that most folk don't see the benefit of,and some wag's 'idea' to say they could bring that money home, has lead to the mess we're in today.

I think there's so little trust in our elected representatives a general election won't solve anything. And we'll just be back here saying the same thing a year; two; five; ten years time.

It's a sad, sorry state of affairs.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Picklebobble2 I am a Remain voter but I'm a Eurosceptic remainer btw. EU bad, Brexit worse is pretty much what I think. Everything is a mess but something has to give and right now this looks like the only solution.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Burnley123 For me, this is about [b]Which is worse ? Being ruled by the EU and all that entails. OR, putting your faith;money;trust;pension etc. in the hands of politicians who quite frankly, i couldn't trust if my life depended on it ![/b]