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The deal was the worst of all worlds and deliberately designed to fail. The whole project since the referendum has been to work towards the palatable introduction of a second referendum whilst spending the intervening time demonstrating the impossibility of a good deal and the awfulness of no deal.

We will now proceed to run down the clock towards the no deal 'cliff edge' and as the precipice looms go to the EU asking for an extension. The EU will say you can only have an extension for a second referendum, which we will hold and remain will win.

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Absolutely this. The day brexit was being voted, I said I would eat my socks if brexit goes thru. The voters did vote for "leave" and my colleagues were wondering if I would really eat my socks. However, I told them this would never get passed thru the parliament. They will dilly dally, drag it along and dump it in the end saying it's too complicated.

To solve any equation, just follow the money. Big business stand to lose a lot of money; therefore brexit won't happen.

Big money is already losing some money, AFAIK. I'm in Amsterdam and there's news every other week of a big company or organization moving to Amsterdam _already_, just in case brexit goes through.

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I read your post as quite confident, but a lot of people were equally confident that the original referendum would be a strong Remain victory. What are you basing these predictions on?

I'd say mainly for those reasons:

1) It was quite an embarrassment for all those young people who did not vote and will suffer now

2) the actual results of a Brexit are known now while the bus-advertisement that was supposed to be the benefits of a Brexit are gone and have not been replaced by anything

Also all those news about businesses reorienting towards Europe and away from UK, Ireland, people applying for EU countries citizenship and so on.

The real results became real while the people who are still for a Brexit have shown their ugly faces.

I'm pretty optimistic about the results of a second referendum. That's why the Brexiteers will never allow it.

What deal would you have designed, and how would it have avoided a border in Ireland?

Or, if you woulf have a border in Ireland, do you think all 52% of voters voted for that?

Mrs May who is mostly responsible for the deal is not a fan of a second referendum. She also wasn't a fan of parliament being involved and would have just forced the deal through if she could have. If you prioritise controlling immigration which has been May's thing for a while, and keep the Good Friday Agreement then May's deal is what you get.

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