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Start thinking creatively and sensibly as a statesman about the crisis he is creating. The solution, i believe, is to go back and ask the public what it is they want. At the moment, he is trying to pull the United Kingdom out of the eu without a deal. Something that was never contemplated or put forward by leavers in 2016 and he is trying to do it in leavers in 2016 and he is trying to do itina leavers in 2016 and he is trying to do it in a way that causes maximum damage to the country. It is unacceptable and he should stop doing it and consider having a referendum. If he cannot dom doing it and consider having a referendum. If he cannot do if he does argue that he is listening to the will of the people and is going to ignore the law, can he, as a sitting Prime Minister, be arrested . Yes, of course you can, he is a subject of the law as anybody else. It would be a contempt of Court Hearing because he has not carried out the instructions of the government, which by then it will have co
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