I hope you are right, but once a vote of no confidence is lost by Labour, then only the Tories can take us into a second referendum. As they'll be led by May, I can't see that happening.
Perhaps she'll do a U-turn today and say that if you vote for me then I'll take my deal, no deal and remain...
A few weeks of chaos?
Oh, in that case I'll just book myself a two-week holiday somewhere hot for the start of April.
Why didn't you say this in the first place?!
You see, this is total horse shit. By their very nature referendums do not destroy faith in democracy. They might be ill advised (as we have discovered), but hyperbole like this doesn't help.
I bet that if I said it was a referendum that required something like a 60% vote in favour of staying...
May wins the no confidence vote. She eyeballs the country and asks what do you want then? My deal or no deal? She makes some window dressing amendments and her deal is reluctantly passed - or we crash out.
I doubt the outcome would be different. We would still be voting while under austerity measures. The vast majority of people in this country are struggling to make ends meet as it is under the Tories. They are not going to vote to stay in the EU when in their eyes the EU has been painted as...