Re: <nettime> Not Brexit

[David Garcia <d.garcia@new-tactical-research.co.uk>]

Agreed Ariston.. nothing is certain and no-deal is still the deafault option. But parliament faced with no deal still has the legal 
option to “revoke” article 50. It is no one’s favoured option but when staring down the barrel of a gun it would probably be the choice. 
of a parliament that has rejected no-deal. That would then innevitably be followed by a General Election of a new refferendum or both. 

The more likely outcome is that May is (reluctently) granted an extension (or flextension) but one that is a year or more in which
case will be forced to take part in the European Elections. She has asked for a limited extension till June so if forced into something longer 
she can claim in a typically English ‘passive aggressive’ way “they made me do it” (sickening cowardice? yes I know).

BUT HERE'S THING- Remainers Must hope and fight to hold those European Elections otherwise we will be legally out.
So it must be the first second and third priority if we are to have a chance of remaining.

If we (remainers) are granted this opportunity then its ‘game on’. Nigel Farage (with his usual tactical nous) is already up and 
running with his new party but Remainers are still splintered and one step behind as usual. This must change. Like Boy Scouts 
we must be preparing now. Just in case we get that break.

Holding the European elections in the UK  offers all sides of the argument a powerful set of risks and opportunities. For Remain
it offers a platform to connect the envigrated remain insurgency to the ballot box. More than 6 million signed the petition and hundreds 
of thousands marched on the street. Now is the opportunity to translate this movement into an electoral process that will be taken 
seriously in the UK and by the rest of Europe. 

One of the ironies of Brexit (pointed out in a TV interview with Richard Barbrook) is that Brexit has turned the UK from a Eurosceptic nation into
one of the most engaged and increasingly pro-EU countries in the EU! No other European country would be able to put hundreds of thousands 
on the streets waving the Union Blue flag. Its time to use the ballot box to translate this into a new impulse of democratic involvement in ways
that could ultimately send positive democratic ripples through the EU’s flawed institutional hierarchies. 

David Garcia       

 
On 7 Apr 2019, at 09:23, Ariston Theotocopulos <ariston.theotocopulos@gmail.com> wrote:

> The UK press this morning seems to be under the impression that the possibility of 'no-deal' Brexit has receded, but it seems to me that this situation has too many moving parts to have any such certainty.
> 
> But right now I'm going to offer the idea that no-deal Brexit isn't to be feared - not because it will be fine, but because it will be absolute chaos, with everything from stranded holidaymakers to financial panic. The immediate result would be the UK parliament signing up to the existing withdrawal agreement within days.
> 
> This taste of madness followed by humiliating climbdown would be a historic defeat of the UK right-wing and all that WTO rules bollocks. I wonder which players in this drama are also thinking along these lines...
> 
> Ariston Theotocopulos
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