I hope he can get it through Parliament. The DUP look like they may be a problem, but the one advantage of losing his majority is that Johnson just about has to get some of the opposition to vote for a deal, which means, the DUP actually becomes less relevant - when they alone were enough to get him over the line, it was a lot harder to deal with them.
I said this in another thread, a moment ago.
I’ve been trying to get the UK out of the EU since the early 2000s. My concerns with it date back even further but I only became actively involved once I left military service - I didn’t consider politics appropriate while I was serving.
This isn’t a new issue to me.
And sovereignty has always been my primary concern, and ‘ever closer union’ is the threat to that sovereignty.
If the EU was still the common market the UK joined, I’d probably be in favour of it. But it’s changed from that and it will continue to change.
Until it was too late to leave.
This isn’t Britain’s last chance yet - but it’s getting very close to that, so I damned well want out now.
The UK is still a sovereign nation - but I fear it wouldn’t be in five more years if it stayed in.
Getting out now... even if the deal isn’t perfect, once the UK is out there’s nothing stopping it trying to fix whatever’s still broken - in fact it will be easier in many ways to negotiate further.
You are right that in some situations it is easier to have a strong minority than a weak majority.
Whatever else one thinks of Harper (and I think he was pretty good given that this is Canada in the 21st century) he knew how to run a minority government.
All it will take is one of the bigger parties not whipping the vote, a sufficient number of abstentions, and presto—no election and Brexit happens.