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Brexit: if UK retains two party system it could be LibDems vs Brexit

By Arthur Dent - posted Tuesday, 4 June 2019


"But the plain fact is that Eurosceptic parties fiercely critical of the EU won the EU parliament elections in Britain, France and Italy".

As far as I know the right wing nationalist party in France dropped its policy to leave the EU and never had such a policy in Italy. As for the UK, here's the actual swing in seats out of 73 in the two recent elections for UK MEPs:

Eurosceptic parties (Tory, Brexit, UKIP, DUP, UUP):

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2014: 19, 0, 24, 1, 1 total 45

2019: 4, 29, 0, 1, 0 total 34

That is a major swing against them.

Big swing to Brexit party increased by 5 over previous incarnation as UKIP was dwarfed by collapse of Tory party from 19 to 4.

It is so blindingly obvious that there is no possibility of "No Deal" now that Greg Sheridan merely claims:

"The British electorate has understood in a way May never has, that the only coherent choice now is a no-deal Brexit or staying in the EU after all".

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Actually that is precisely what May said was the necessary result of the inevitable rejection of the ridiculous proposals for BRINO as a vassal state of the EU whereas Sheridan was saying "nobody knows".

Two months ago Sheridan said:

"Only one prediction is certain: the Brexit mess, which has already exhausted the patience of the British public, has a long way to run."

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