The is no time for a 2nd referendum and May knows this it needs parliment Legislation not an amendment all's the government can do is vote it down which they will, then and then add many amendments to the deal for her to take back Keir Starmer cited this today- article 50 is statute in law now and she knows it the only way to squash this crap deal is depose her , and the tories have to do that....
a GE a peoples vote is just a pipedream more like the only option is WTO rules or someone a new leader to do what Trump did to the EU on tariffs, and they caved in in 2 days - she has been at it for 2 years plus and conceded everything......
Well it is certainly true that time is short and the people with the authority to call a second referendum are completely opposed to it. (At the moment! Things change fast these days...!) I also agree that in itself it would not "sort the whole thing out". It would not, for example, address the issues of the Tory divisions on Europe that kicked this off, the relative popularity of UKIP as it was in the few years prior to the referendum, the misgivings significant numbers of people have about being in the EU, immigration, austerity to name a few important points.
But it would ascertain the extent to which the public, which is now confronting a couple of very specific versions of Leave, still wants its government/parliament to pursue either of those two options or whether it prefers the process to stop for now and another way to be found to address some of the issues listed above, however intractable some of them are.
Many of the processes we have been following for over 2 years now are unknown territory so I think it might be possible to get around Article 50 deadlines somehow. Pressing on headlong into one of two outcomes both of which are looking worse than the status quo seems inflexible at best and bloody-minded recklessness at worst. It sort of reminds me of the reasons for causing the process to start in the first place......try to placate the Tory right and keep them under one umbrella although May's deal is certainly not placating the hardline Brexiteers. Not sure they can actually be placated actually.
If it showed a swing in favour of the status quo it would be democratic to respect that although it would hopefully be followed by some sort of national commission to try to address the concerns listed above. If it showed a determination to press on with either of the two Leave options currently looming that would be hard to argue against and it would be time to put on our seat belts!!
