by Мастер » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:13 am
I would guess that there is, as we speak, a conspiracy to try to stop this. Whether the conspiracy succeeds or not is another thing . . .
Cameron cannot remain PM and repudiate the referendum result, so if it's going to happen, it has to be someone else. He will be resigning, not immediately, but in October, and we has not formally notified the EU of the UK's decision to withdraw, he will leave that to his successor. If he plans to respect the referendum result, why notify the EU immediately? I can see why he doesn't want to resign immediately, they need to time to figure out how to get someone other than Boris Johnson to be PM. But no reason not to notify the EU straight away (and even the EU has advised the UK to do so without delay).
Sturgeon (why do they always have fish names?) has no doubt spoken with Cameron, and informed him (if this did not already occur before the referendum) that if he doesn't find some way to fix this, Scotland is leaving, and he will be remembered as the PM who destroyed his country. Cameron's ambitions, if they ever were to be remembered as a great prime minister, have surely been scaled down to trying not to be remembered as the Mikhail Gorbachev of the UK.
Perhaps there are intra-party machinations to bring in a new PM who publicly promises to repudiate the result, hold a second referendum, or something like that. Or a general election, although of course the Tories would like to avoid that.
There is some chatter that Sturgeon is trying to negotiate a deal where Scotland can remain in the EU without leaving the UK, much like Greenland and the Faroes are not EU members, but their colony north of Germany is. I don't see how they can have that without having passport checks on the border between Scotland and England though.
So my guess is, Cameron et al. haven't given up the fight yet, but it won't be easy to win now.
And I will definitely be cheering for New Zealand when they play Wales 105 minutes from now.
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