I am starting to wonder that perhaps the May deal is the least worst option Parliament needs to take. I voted remain and really wish we had won the referendum, if we had then there would be far less division in the Country and we would be better off by tens perhaps even hundreds of Billions of pounds.
But we are were we are, I thought another referendum might be the answer but I now have doubts about this. Not as many leavers have switched over to remain as I though would once things became clearer about what leaving the EU actually meant. Most polls seem to indicate very few people have changed their minds. Now if there was something like a 65 or 70% majority wanting to remain then I would think differently, but the figures are nothing like that.
I read a book a while back written by a journalist it was all about Brexit and the leave and remain campaigns. The leavers fought a far better campaign than the remainers and who is to say they would not do the same again. There are several prominent people who lots of people have heard of who could front the leave campaign, there aren't that many that could front the remain campaign. Also what would happen if remain won by say 52 to 48%, you can be certain there would be a huge clamour for another vote.
The fact that Mays deal pleases no one and is in many ways the worst of all worlds might actually be the only thing that has any kind of chance of bringing the Country together again. Bearing in mind that unless legislation is passed we leave on WTO terms at the end of March. I don't think leaving on these terms will be as bad as some people are saying but I think there will be quite a lot of initial disruption and probably a run on the pound. Also long term I think we will be a poorer Country in all kinds of ways not just financial by leaving on WTO terms, so if the HoC chooses Mays deal they at least get rid of the risk of a hard Brexit.
Finally I have seen people argue on these pages and elsewhere that many older leave voters would now have passed away and most new young voters would vote remain, this is probably true, but would those young voters bother voting? Also as mentioned previously, the leave campaign could easily fight another excellent campaign and could easily win again, possibly with an even bigger majority. This would almost certainly mean leaving on WTO terms, and would provide ammunition to the Alt Right of the Country who have definitely become more prominent since leave won and the advent of Trump and other Populist leaders around the world.
