Eh? Farage failed even to get elected as an MP. Boris was stabbed in the back by Gove. Rees-Mogg is not PM material. He does not have the support and never will. And he sort of knows his place and knows that.
There seems to be a general presumption that the EU has nothing to say about whether the UK leaves, or (especially) stays as a member, at what level, to what degree and at what cost. This is dangerous thinking. Presuming the UK Parliament votes down the trade deal, there is absolutely nothing requiring the EU to accept either the vote or the UK remaining in the EU. To think anything less is, quite frankly madness.
What I think is that both sides have gone too far. Neither will relent, but the power position is with the EU, not the UK. No deal is still out, and the EU has to make it so, because of 27 other member nation states. "There will be consequences!" It would not be in the EU's survival interest to ever permit the UK back into the EU as it is currently structured. England will be left to her own devices, just as many in the UK wanted. More than those who did not, as it turns out. The success of this move relies now, and in the future as it always has on the reliance, determination, innovation and creativity of the citizens of the UK. Many fear that gamble, and rightly so for nothing is guaranteed. GB will have to somehow find her way back to the self-determined, strong-willed people of an island nation too strong to quit, and too kind to be cruel. That is, it seems to me, a very difficult path for any nation. I hope they will. I know they can. Said the Yank.
