British politician says UK should threaten Ireland with food shortages

[Scoobes]

JRPGfan said:

OlfinBedwere said:
Theresa May has now distanced herself from Patel's remarks and said she has no intention of resorting to those types of tactics.

Of course, seeing how May could well only be Prime Minister for roughly another six hours, that might not mean much in the longer run...

She won the vote, she ll be there for atleast another year.

This also means its very likely that Britain ends up with "no deal" at all, and does a Hard Exit, with no deals in place.
UK economy is about to crash..... a big part of it is banking, and that doesnt work without the ties in place to europe working.
Ontop of that 40-60% of their trade (directly/indirectly) is dependent on Europe.

I cant believe the circus this brexit has been.
optimistic projections say UK's economy will be ~10% smaller, 10 years from now.... it ll probably be worse (imo).

I don't think it's 'very likely' although still a strong possibility of 'no deal'. Grieve's amendment means that if May's deal gets voted down then parliament decides the next course of action and there's no majority for 'no deal'.

So the only options after that are ask for an extension and renegotiate (doubt the EU would want that but possible), put May's deal to another referendum (so MP's have a get out of jail card if it fucks up) or revoke article 50 (which is possible but would require more bravery than our politicians have the stomach for).

Having said that, UK politicians are as thick as two planks of wood so, who knows?