Theresa May's Brexit deal or No Brexit At All.

We have come round full circle so many times with the Brexit negotiations and divisions and options and disagreements that I would like to think we Brits now have two options facing us before March 29: Thesesa May's deal with added stuff that won't mean much from the EU and then a chance for a popular or parliamentary vote on whether to scrap the whole thing and stay in the EU. According to a story in the New York Times, there is just one word that sums up what has been going on between Brit and EU negotiators in Brussels in recent weeks: NOTHING. I have a terrible feeling this is true. May and her acolytes just go round and round with the same old arguments about the Northern Ireland backstop and the EU bureaucrats come up the same old fatuous pledges about writing a legal letter or addendum which basically says, "Don't worry, the backstop won't last for ever, we promise, but we can't put an exact timetable limit to it because without this insurance policy everything else falls by the wayside." So if nothing has really moved to help Thesesa May get her deal through Parliment, then when the vote is held again next month she will be defeated again. Now she has said that if she is defeated she will allow a vote on whether to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table, and assuming 90 per cent of MPs vote in favour of abolishing the no-deal option, the next option will be a vote on whether to delay the Brexit leaving date of March 29 to sometime in June to give more time for negotiations. But sorry, it doesn't matter whether the exit is delayed for three months or six months or a year, nothing is going to change radically to make Theresa May's deal look significantly different (better). What's the point of delaying the exit date? The prime minister hates the idea of delaying it because she feels personally obligated to fulfill the maority of the people's wish which is to leave the EU on March 29. Jeremy Corbyn's five-point solution to Brexit - leaving the EU but not really - is meaningless because, whatever my personal feelings about it, it is effectively a total surrender to the EU, a treacherous snub to the people who voted to leave, and it will emasculate Britain's powers for ever within the European community. I travelled back from Spain today and before we took off a very loud argument broke out between a bloke behind me and another bloke across the aisle. All about Brexit. The guy across the aisle who was garrulous to a fault, wafted on about why the UK should stay in the EU, which was too much for the big guy behind me who shouted for the other chap to get real and what about the meaning of democracy and basically told him to bugger off and leave democracy to take its course. Everyone started to get uncomfortable. It made me realise that probably if the UK fails to leave the EU on March 29, my friend behind will be marching to Parliament Square to protest. Along with 17 million others. Spurred on by the garrulous bloke who didn't stop talking the whole flight, the big fella behind me said it was nonsense that mayhem would follow if we left the EU without a deal. So I am somewhat wary of mentioning the one option which we could and should take which is to let Parliament vote between two options: Theresa's deal or no Brexit. Simples, as Mrs May said in Parliament today. Everyone says the May deal is a bad deal so the only alternative is to stay in the EU and forget all this democracy rubbish!!! Apologies to the fella sitting behind me on the plane. And to the fast and furious Leavers/Brexiteers, stop thinking of yourselves and think of the next generation who want to stay European.