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Do you think Brexit is finally about to happen?

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Urmstongran Fri 28-Jun-19 11:05:40

3 long years on from the referendum and Boris about to enter No. 10

For now he is pouring cold water on a no-deal, giving it odds of a “million to one against”.

But with his deadline set, and an article of faith for his ministers, those odds are going to shorten fast from the moment he enters Downing Street.

Yet Dominic Grieve has unveiled an incendiary proposal to stop key Whitehall departments from being able to spend any money in the event of a no deal. His plan does not stop it happening though, merely making sure it is as calamitous as possible – in the hope that the Prime Minister would shy away from it.

If selected for a vote, the plan is unlikely to get far in Parliament.

Mr Grieve’s fellow Remainers acknowledge that they are short on ways to stop a no deal, with Antoinette Sandbach confessing on Politics Live today that it was “not clear” how MPs could do it but hoping that "some procedural way” would turn up.

I can’t make out if we’re about to leave the EU or will it get stopped?

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GillT57 Mon 01-Jul-19 18:55:05

Exactly. The money invested in growing economies, economies from countries that have recently got out from under the grip of the old USSR for example, is not wasted money. It is helping countries to develop, to build infrastructure, to educate their own workforce. It is ironic that the same people who moan about economic migrants are often the same people ( or newspaper editors) who complain about money being spent to help the new economies to grow. Further examples of the twilight zone of public awareness and politics that we are in at present.

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