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Here We Go Again...

Posted on the 18 January 2019 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth

From The Telegraph:
A second referendum will take well over a year to organise, according to official guidance drawn up by civil servants in the Cabinet Office.
The guidance - leaked to Telegraph - was handed to MPs by David Lidington, Theresa May's effective deputy, at a meeting today in the Cabinet Office...

Which has been the plan all along. They are just playing for time and messing things up as badly as possible, quite deliberately, until there's a big enough margin to re-run it.
Rather infuriatingly - from their point of view - the opinion polls are not showing a clear enough lead for Remain. They went into the first referendum a few points ahead, which evaporated on the day, so they daren't rerun the referendum until Remain is at least 10 points ahead to give them a margin of error.
Or they might risk it and have a second referendum with the binary choice, Remain or May's (Deliberately Shit) Deal, in which case Remain would probably romp home (I don't know why Survation's 11/1/19 poll showed them level pegging, that looks like a blip).


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