Sadly it may be a ‘twitter cliche’ but it is (not yet) wrong as it remains the
law and so is still the default outcome.
I hope that Yvette Cooper’s is successful in proposing an extension givig time
to make the new legislation that
would take “no deal off the table” but it is not straight
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 7:46 AM Keith Hart wrote:
> “No deal can’t be taken off the table; it is the table.” You’ll hear
> this clever sound bite in Twitter feeds on both sides of the Brexit divide,
> but it suffers from the serious defect of being wrong. When we talk about
> no deal being the
“No deal can’t be taken off the table; it is the table.” You’ll hear
this clever sound bite in Twitter feeds on both sides of the Brexit divide,
but it suffers from the serious defect of being wrong. When we talk about
no deal being the table, we mean that it is the present default position.
No
The UK Parliament just voted to take a Brexit 'no deal' off the table. But it
is the law and therefore the default
option unless the law is changed. So Parliament's motion means ‘sweet diddly
squat’. The problem is actually
a category error. You can't take no deal off the table as it is the
