Not if the EU refuse to grant an extension (unlikely).
Why don’t we just… leave? Like stop accepting EU immigrants, send trade negotiators out, stop paying into the EU, just act like we’ve already left? What’s merkle gonna do about it? Stop giving us shiny German cars? I doubt it it would cost them too much.
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No one is stopping us. We’ve had an agreement with the rest of the countries TWICE now. We’re trying to figure out a way to do it without bollocksing up the country. We can even do exactly what you suggest, if we want to do the maximum amount of damage to ourselves. Quite a lot of people seem to want exactly that.
It’s made extra difficult because the people in charge of not bollocksing up the country (an extremely complicated task with thousands of things to consider) are incompetent and corrupt, and got where they are by lying about what was possible.
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I voted remain but I wouldn’t want another referendum. What’s done is done, that’s democracy.
My prediction is we will leave with no deal and rely heavily on inferior foreign products (American chlorinated chicken, Chinese knockoffs) the price of things won’t go up but the quality will go down. You won’t see empty supermarket shelves just different products. The idea of mass food shortages in one of the richest nations on earth is ridiculous.
Edit: Fun fact, the monster raving looney party have a policy that’s states “Noel Edmonds should be in charge of Brexit negotiations because he understands deal or no deal”
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If we do have another election I just hope there is a clear majority for a leave or remain party. The last thing we want is a ~50/50 split else we’re going to be stuck in this loop for the rest of time.
I think we need a totally new party to sort everything out, the Huel party is a good name who wants to be leader? Can you do a poll @ChristinaT so we can vote lol 
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We would have already left if it wasn’t for Northern Ireland. A no-deal Brexit means a hard irish border, which means checkpoints, which will get attacked, which means the police will need to be there, but the police will get attacked, so the army will get sent in to protect them, which means a return to the utter horror of 1969-1998.
- Just leaving would destroy the UK’s economy.
- There’s a high possibility of seeing car bombings all over the United Kingdom again as Northern Ireland and the republic of Ireland would be separated by a hard border.
- If the UK decides to just “leave” the EU and there will be a hard border in Ireland then there should be a referendum in Northern Ireland if they want to join the republic of Ireland to prevent the potential violence. That referendum would most likely succeed looking at the recent polls.
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Northern Ireland is an economic drain on the UK and I personally wouldn’t be too bothered if they left. I don’t know how the rest of the uk would feel
Speaking as a person who is an economic drain on the UK, I think that’s a pretty ruthless way to look at the world.
Also don’t you live in the north east of England? I can understand people from London saying “we pay the bills” (even if they have been stacking the deck in their own favour for decades). You don’t have a leg to stand on though.
Really, the united Ireland referendum should happen before we leave the EU, otherwise it’s like a married couple getting divorced before they’ve even decided who the child is going to live with.
oh yeah I forgot about that. I live in economically and generally the absolute worst place in Britain and has been since the Middle Ages.
Also looking back that comment that was too harsh. I don’t believe struggling communities should be cut off but I do think Northern Ireland being not on the mainland and being politically and culturally different to the rest of Britain means they have a good argument for reunification, just like Scotland has a good argument for independence.
Edit: come to think of it the whole of the uk is a drain on the uk apart from London. Maybe it should just be London that goes independent then the rest of us will be happy
If Scotland became independent, that would be difficult, especially if they decided to stay in the EU. That would mean an EU land border on mainland Britain, which would be a pain.
With cultural differences, where do you draw the line? The north of England is culturally different from the south. I live in Gloucestershire, and I often feel like we have more in common with South Wales than Northern England. A quick trip to Monmouthshire almost just feels like going to another part of Gloucestershire, apart from the Welsh on the signs.
I tend to think of Britain rather than England/Scotland/Wales. My local identity is Gloucestershire, then the next one up from that is South West England, but then the next one up is Britain. I tend to skip England as a whole (in terms of identity), because other parts of England are just other parts of Britain to me, just like Wales is.