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While British Voters Flock to ‘No Deal’ Brexit Party, PM May Offers Second Referendum
Breitbart ^ | 21 May 2019 | Oliver JJ Lane

Posted on 05/21/2019 12:42:53 PM PDT by KC_Lion

Apparently having failed to learn the lesson of her party being trounced in the polls by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, British Prime Minister Theresa May has further distanced herself from the British public by setting the process in motion for a second referendum.

Making her pitch to Parliament Tuesday afternoon to pass her thrice-rejected Withdrawal Agreement when it is put before the house for a fourth time next month, embattled British Prime Minister offered a second referendum as a bribe to buy votes from her political colleagues.

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Speaking in Westminster, the Prime Minister said:

"I have also listened carefully for those who have argued for a second referendum. I have made my own view on this clear many times. I do not believe this is a route we should take because I think we should be implementing the result of the first referendum, not asking the British people to vote in a second one.

But I recognise the genuine and sincere strength of feeling across the House on this important issue. The government will, therefore, include in the withdrawal agreement bill at introduction a requirement to vote on whether to hold a second referendum, and this must take place before the withdrawal agreement can be ratified. And if the House of Commons were to vote for a referendum, it would be requiring the government to make provisions for such a referendum including legislation if it wanted to ratify a withdrawal agreement.

So to those MPs who want a second referendum to confirm the deal, you need a deal and therefore a withdrawal agreement bill to make it happen. So let it have its second reading, and then make your case to Parliament."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; may; secondreferendum; theresamay; uk; unitedkingdom
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Full Title: Democratic Disconnect: While British Voters Flock to ‘No Deal’ Brexit Party, PM May Offers Second Referendum

While May’s comments merely open the way for Parliament to vote on whether to have a second referendum, the political arithmetic in an overwhelmingly pro-EU House of Commons is such that if given the opportunity, Parliament will almost certainly impose a second referendum on the country. The offer breaks PM May’s previous comments that a second referendum would “break faith with the British people”, and would “irreparable damage” to faith in democracy.

Theresa May Surrenders

1 posted on 05/21/2019 12:42:53 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: KC_Lion

can’t wait for Thursday! or Friday, really, I suppose....


2 posted on 05/21/2019 12:46:22 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: KC_Lion

How stupid can one person be? May sure takes it to a new low.


3 posted on 05/21/2019 12:47:55 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: KC_Lion

Good tactics. Just keep having more referenda until you get the answer you want. Like vote recounts in Florida.


4 posted on 05/21/2019 12:49:47 PM PDT by arthurus (32)
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To: KC_Lion

Why doesn’t Theresa May have Joe Biden call Margaret Thatcher for advice?


5 posted on 05/21/2019 12:52:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: KC_Lion

In the end there will be real brexit and we will wonder why all this was necessary. Imo.


6 posted on 05/21/2019 12:54:22 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: KC_Lion

At this point the terms of a second referendum likely will not include any no-deal Brexit option, meaning that the terms will have been unilaterally changed from those of the first referendum by the government before the vote even begins. We’ll know by this time next week if this is even politically viable, but I’m thinking that horse is deader than Seabiscuit.


7 posted on 05/21/2019 12:56:31 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ConservativeDude

It should be a good weekend for Conservatives everywhere.
Memorial Day Weekend.
Fitting as it remembers WWI which was created and fought to keep the Political Elite in power and ruling.

The Habsburg Empire finally ended Oct 1918 after ruling or having influence from England to Russia.


8 posted on 05/21/2019 1:01:01 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: KC_Lion

LOong after the voters made clear their preference for Brexit, the powers at be made it known that voters choice mean nothing to the elites.

It’s like their are ruled by plutocrats.

It’s what the Deep State has in store for America.


9 posted on 05/21/2019 1:02:42 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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To: KC_Lion

A second referendum before implementing the first? Those who wanted out of Europe had to wait 40 years for a second referendum.


10 posted on 05/21/2019 1:06:40 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: KC_Lion

She’s a disgrace.

An absolute disgrace!


11 posted on 05/21/2019 1:10:48 PM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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Yep.


12 posted on 05/21/2019 1:21:20 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: arthurus
Good tactics. Just keep having more referenda until you get the answer you want.

Then, once you get that answer, all further referenda are illegal. That's how "democracy" works when the government is run by totalitarians.
13 posted on 05/21/2019 1:25:28 PM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: Antoninus

Their ratchet effect seems to go only one way.


14 posted on 05/21/2019 1:28:50 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: sparklite2
Their ratchet effect seems to go only one way.

There shall be no unscrewing.

15 posted on 05/21/2019 1:33:13 PM PDT by niteowl77
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It’s hard to get over my lifelong admiration of the British, but that edifice is crumbling and turning to dust before my eyes.


16 posted on 05/21/2019 1:35:15 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: KC_Lion

Theresa May cannot be removed by a vote of No Confidence?
She will still be ‘quietly negotiating’ by the time Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor has left home and found his own American Duchess.


17 posted on 05/21/2019 1:46:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I hate politicians. They hold back man’s progress for selfish reason’s.


18 posted on 05/21/2019 1:50:11 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: KC_Lion
No friggin do-overs! The people have spoken.

I thought the left wing blathered about "democracy" all the time.
Except "it isn't democracy" if Trump wins or Brexit wins, is it?


 

19 posted on 05/21/2019 1:55:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (September 11, 2001 : Never forget, never forgive.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Just like when candidate Trump was badgered by the lamestream media by being constantly asked if he would accept the results of the election. HA!

If the Brits had voted to remain in the EU, there would be no talk of a second referendum. These elitist, unelected snobs want the peasants to keep voting until they get the "right" result.

20 posted on 05/21/2019 2:01:36 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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