
As you know I prefer the UK Parliament to simply vote to revoke Article 50 (UK's application to leave the EU) and thereby rejecting BREXIT.
As news, finally, gathers in the UK Press on the forthcoming 'No Deal' or 'Some sort of Deal' BREXIT, it is increasingly clear that social, economic, financial and environmental disaster beckons.
If there is a new referendum I do hope the millions of UK Passport holders who live outside of the UK could be included this time.
As noted in the Sunday Observer out of the UK today: ''Sadiq Khan, the major of London, says that, with so little time left to negotiate, there are now only two possible outcomes: a bad deal for the UK or “no deal” at all, which will be even worse. “They are both incredibly risky and I don’t believe Theresa May has the mandate to gamble so flagrantly with the British economy and people’s livelihoods,” he writes.
Khan says that backing a second referendum was never something he expected to have to do. But so abject has been the government’s performance, and so great is the threat to living standards and jobs, he says, that he sees no alternative than to give people a chance to stay in the EU.
“This means a public vote on any Brexit deal obtained by the government, or a vote on a ‘no-deal’ Brexit if one is not secured, alongside the option of staying in the EU,” he writes. “People didn’t vote to leave the EU to make themselves poorer, to watch their businesses suffer, to have NHS wards understaffed, to see the police preparing for civil unrest or for our national security to be put at risk if our cooperation with the EU in the fight against terrorism is weakened.”
Recognition of the case for a new referendum also appears to be growing in Tory circles. On Saturday the Conservative MP George Freeman, a former chair of Theresa May’s policy board, said on Twitter that pressure for a second vote would become “overwhelming” should moderate Conservatives fail to shape a sensible Brexit deal.
Last week the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, warned the cabinet that the impact of a no-deal Brexit could be as catastrophic as the financial crisis that crippled the economy a decade ago. He also said that house prices could fall by 35% over three years in the worst-case scenario.