Very well researched, Brexit in a nutshell. I hope this madness can be stopped because it's driving me crazy! ( )

I honestly can't believe Brexiters are still using the "negotiations are like a game of poker" argument. Honestly, I can't believe it. It shows that even now, you have virtually no comprehension of what is going on. Either that or you're pretending not to. The Prime Minister doesn't have a "hand" to play. He's got nothing. No leverage, no plan, no clue. His "strategy" is to insist that alternative arrangements exist to solve the border problem, but he won't say what they are. And that the EU should just trust us, honest, we're good for it mate. It's pitiful to see the state Brexiters have reduced the UK to.

My outlook into the grim future of the UK:

There is absolutely no way that the UK will come together again, the divide of the UK citizens over the last 3 years will become a never ending nightmare for you. If you leave the EU, then the Remainers will refuse to get behind anything which is planned "to reunite the UK "while constantly working on trying to find a way back into the EU. Even after you leave, regardless of No deal or deal, the aftermath of Brexit and trying to rejoin will continue to dominate your news and politics for the unforeseeable future. The UK is so divided that, aside from Scotland and NI leaving the UK, England will actually have the biggest problem as you are verging close to a civil war, even if violence will be avoided.

"Do you support Brexit or want to rejoin the EU" will become a standard question in all parts of life, romantic relationships will not happen between people with opposite opinions, pubs will be either one or the other, etc., etc.

This divide is what will destroy the UK, and England in particular, as you know it.

The EU have already spent 3 years negotiating a withdrawal agreement with the UK government which protects the rights of one of their members, Ireland, and for which Johnson voted in favour. Why on earth should they re-open this agreement just because Johnson and his ERG chums have seized power? Absolutely nothing to do with stopping Brexit. They have already agreed Brexit in the WA but must be sick to death of the stupidity of the Tories. The UK, after creating the ill thought clusterfuck that is Brexit, after squandering EU time, after begging for a prolongation, is simply reneging the WA its PM duly signed, and the GFA international treaty it also signed to keep Ireland peaceful. The WA complies with both the GFA and the UK red lines and includes the backstop demanded by the UK (instead of a sea border).

And still there are some individuals braying that it is all the EU fault!

The UK: A nation that has collectively expelled its brains in the sewers.

Revoke and re-think is the only way out now:

MPs, having already allowed themselves to be persuaded that austerity was a necessary tool rather than an ill-informed political construct, went on to accept a carelessly planned referendum, to accept the illegitimate result, to accept that 37% of a preselected electorate in this rigged referendum should represent "the country", went on to vote to trigger Article 50 without examination or discussion. MPs have so far failed Britain dismally. Having made such an utter mess of the whole process, they refused a referendum which would have given everyone the chance to review the idea, and perhaps find a path of compromise that could have prevented the present impasse. MPs failed again. They can gather themselves together to revoke article 50 now, and perhaps go down in history as having done something useful after all, perhaps even as heroes. Or they can sit on their hands as they have done for the last decade and forever be remembered as the most pointless shower of nonentities ever to take taxpayers money. ( )