• Tory bloke in my office reckons this was the plan all the way:

    • Cameron's last negotiation round was worthless
    • Drive for a leave win
    • See the impact on the Eurpoean economies
    • Back round the table
    • "we have a mandate from the people and we will invoke article 50 unless I can go back to the UK population with a sweet offer"
    • "look at the terms we negotiated - we'd be mad to leave"
    • Second referendem - remain
    • Tory's cast as economic heros
  • I was hoping for something like this earlier today (given that we'd got this horrible result). In this situation you can even envisage Boris being a good choice for leading, as I can't imagine he'd have the the attention span / will to get involved in any of the actual detail needed to exit so would probably prefer not to have to leave, and to dine off the 'spin' of presenting a better deal.

    But then it turns out this afternoon that the Europeans want to get rid of us as soon as they can, earlier than the two year minimum if they can. Makes me feel ashamed.

  • Could be right.

  • He must be as stupid as BoJo then. Toys out of the pram has rarely proved a successful negotiating tactic in the history of humanity to date, I can't see it doing any better now.

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