From The Telegraph:
A second referendum will take well over a year to organise, according to official guidance drawn up by civil servants in the Cabinet Office.
The guidance - leaked to Telegraph - was handed to MPs by David Lidington, Theresa May's effective deputy, at a meeting today in the Cabinet Office...
Which has been the plan all along. They are just playing for time and messing things up as badly as possible, quite deliberately, until there's a big enough margin to re-run it.
Rather infuriatingly - from their point of view - the opinion polls are not showing a clear enough lead for Remain. They went into the first referendum a few points ahead, which evaporated on the day, so they daren't rerun the referendum until Remain is at least 10 points ahead to give them a margin of error.
Or they might risk it and have a second referendum with the binary choice, Remain or May's (Deliberately Shit) Deal, in which case Remain would probably romp home (I don't know why Survation's 11/1/19 poll showed them level pegging, that looks like a blip).
Friday 18 January 2019
Here we go again...
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I was going to say that the referendum question would have to be considered fair and so the choice of Remain or May's Shit Sandwich wouldn't be allowed.
Then I realised it'd be the Electoral Commission that made the adjudication and they are all rabid Remoaners.
Perhaps we could get some sad old slapper to take the dane gold of a rich Leaver supporter to take the referendum choice to the Supreme Court to rule on (ala Gina Miller).
M, and the Supreme Court isn't arch establishment and hence hard core Remainers..?
It's is - part wishful thinking and part wanting to slag (sic) off Miller.
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