muckles:
Nice one Franglais, 
I didn’t want to reply and take this thread off course, but I’m going to as it seems to have done so already.
Being fully signed up member’s of the globalised, free market club and friends with big business and financial institutions, (who will no doubt offer them nicely lucrative consultancies positions after their parliamentary career if they do their bidding) Many conservative MP’s are Pro-EU, so I think May might have played a bit of blinder (for those that support her anyway 
) by holding an election now, it might give her a massive majority in parliament, so less need to keep the Anti-Euro bunch happy and also 3 years after we leave to the next election to show it’s working.
I reckon once all the showboating is done and the serious negotiations start the needs of the multi nationals and financials intuitions will come out on top for both sides, 
The deal will be free trade in goods and especially services (to keep the City happy), in return for free movement of labour, again as businesses say they want that also. There might be some sort of restrictions on paper, like you have to have a job to come to, to make it look like there is a sorting process, but it won’t make much difference in practice.
We will pay an “exit fee” over a period of years, so actually it becomes a continued membership fee, and there might be a bit of a punishment to stop others thinking on the same lines, but basically it will be business as usual.
I too think the result will be something along those lines, it didn’t make sense to go for an election to actually formalise or negotiate Brexit.
A full 5 year term gives them more chance to bamboozle the disappointed and betrayed majority who voted for Brexit once the truth outs and we realise that once again we have elected traitors.
3 years after the event is more than enough time to bribe and/or brainwash enough so the torries (once again betraying their people) don’t get punished come the next election.
Speaking of which, they’ve already got that one in the bag no matter what they do too, Labour finished, Blair can’t help poisoning everything he touches and until he dies the most treasonous and anti British working class Labour govt of all time is still associated with him in peoples minds, better still he’s demented enough to try for the leadership again, Corbyn turned out to be as principle-less as any others and unable to instill loyalty, who else is there Dianne Abbott?
Libs the anti Brexit party going to be a party without a cause because Brexit, as those of us who voted for it was never intended by our corrupted and bought leaders and isn’t going to be delivered, Libs neutered.
UKIP did it’s designated job of destroying the BNP (dash it, should have said ‘odious’ before BNP, now i’ll never get that job in the MSM), and is now more or less washed up, unless Farage returns to front line politics fronting another party i can see no one else in the wings, so we return once again to the two similar parties and a third one that might be useful to prop up an unelected govt (as they did Cameron) which fails to get a mandate, and makes itself useful as someone to blame when we slide another dozen rungs down the ladder of national bankruptcy and disaster…not to worry when things go ■■■■ up and hundreds of thousands lose their jobs and homes thats when the real rich who direct things make killings buying property companies and people on the cheap.
Handily in another 5 years when the truth dawns, another few million usually patriotic old uns will have passed on, replaced by another few millions immigrants, so the 2.5 party system will carry on.
Of course Mm LePen could win and that will throw a spanner in the works, unless they get to her like they seem to have done with Farage and Trump.
What they haven’t worked out is what happens in a generation or two’s time, when the demograph of the country (whole continent) changes at an accelerating rate, all bets are off then.
