Comments by "Cinderball" (@cinderball1135) on "After May, Boris? No-Deal Brexit?" video.

I am going to make a prediction: if Brexit is not cancelled, it will devour the careers of one Prime Minister after another, at an accelerating pace. It will eat Leadsom first, then Gove, then Johnson, then Mordaunt, then Rees Mogg. One after another, they will ascend to primacy, they will draft their life's Magnum Opus, they will deliver it to the Commons and watch it get burnt to a cinder. Then they will be escorted out of Number 10, to be swiftly replaced by another, even more degenerate and incompetent chancer. Eventually, perhaps after five or six tries, a candidate for leadership will observe the suspiciously fresh pile of prime ministerial cadavers, piling up beside the door, and say "You know what, I don't think this job's for me, thanks". There is no workable form of Brexit. The truly great thing for a Prime Minister to do would be to stand up in front of that podium, and address the nation with the words: "Britain - you have been scammed. Brexit was a lie sold to you by hucksters and careerists looking to make fast money at your expense, and at the expense of our democracy. I am going to the House, to put a bill to revoke Article 50, and then I am going to resign. God save us all."
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Mr Nigel "Privatise the NHS, Climate Change Isn't Real, Let's Make Poor People Pay More Tax Than Bankers" Farage? No thanks.
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Jan Schlossar It may have escaped your notice, but I'm not and never have been a Brexit supporter. The comment "God save us all" was what I imagine a Conservative would have to say, given that they would have, hypothetically, had to be a Brexit supporter at one time, and would inevitably be forced to face down the very same angry voters that, not a few months prior, they themselves had been helping to whip up.
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@KIMJUNGEUNism You're missing a vital piece of context there, friendbean: America, China, Singapore, Canada and Australia aren't part of the European continental shelf (and only one of them operates on WTO rules).
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Jan Schlossar Well, I for one will never cease to be obnoxious to everybody, and shout from the rooftops how absurd of a concept Brexit is - and what foul demagogues and charlatans were responsible for selling it in the first place. We may be living at a time when the United Kingdom finds itself at a particularly low ebb, but I assure you, not all of us have taken leave of our sanity, and some of us are prepared to actually stand up for what we believe in - and for you. Information is power - and as I have discovered, it is our most effective weapon against tyranny. So spread the word about Nigel Flat Tax, Scrap The NHS, Climate Change Sceptic" Farage - if nothing else, it seriously annoys his followers (and I'm inclined to believe that it's because it works).
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@KIMJUNGEUNism No, by my logic, America, Canada and Mexico should form a preferential trade agreement. OH WAIT, THEY HAVE. When it comes to trade, geographic proximity may not be the ultimate decider of who you ally with - but it's a pretty powerful incentive to get along. Like it or not, if two countries are situated at great distances from each other, the costs of trade are going to be much greater than if you were to trade with a closer neighbour. As for the "Commonwealth Countries" - I think you're conflating those with Crown Dependencies and the like. And yes, I do think we should be thinking about returning them to their rightful owners - with their citizens' consent. As for "Democracy must be delivered, deal or no deal" - well, please allow me to invite you to consider a slightly broader definition of the word 'Democracy'. Democracy is an ongoing process of debate, discussion and procedures - the referendum in 2016 was a snapshot - a moment in time - and people have moved on since then. The clear majority of people in this country now wants to remain in the EU. Do you think you, a member of the minority, ploughing ahead against their wishes is a particularly "Democratic" thing to do? No. You only feign love of "Democracy" because it's a convenient posture for you to strike, right now, and it shuts up a fair proportion of polite democrats who lack the spine or the appetite to fight back. You don't care about democracy - you care about getting Brexit at any cost, to anybody. Nothing else apparently matters, because, underneath it all, at the very bottom of it, you're just angry, and you want to lash out at somebody.
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Adelante077 I'm not going to. There's nobody I'd want for the top job who's got a gnat's chance in a hurricane of getting there. Instead, I'd like to make the case that Parliament should be sovereign - not the Prime Minister - and that maybe we Britons need to stop obsessing so much over the pomp and circumstance of who gets to occupy Number 10. I'd far rather that government was transacted responsibly, and on the basis of reasonable discussion - rather than being hastily crafted in the kitchen of Number 10, and then dictated to unthinking ranks of loyalist MPs to drill it through Parliament without any opportunity for democratic processes to assert themselves.
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