[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Alf

"No deal is better than a bad deal" was in the Tory manifesto. We tried a deal, but it turned out to be a bad deal, so what now?

It was said.

However the Con party like all others stated clearly we would get a deal.

Since you raise that point however, it may well have been one of the reasons the Cons had their overall majority taken off them.
Thinking about it.

Leads of 15% to 20% in polling should never have resulted in no overall majority for the Cons.
In around 4 weeks of a campaign.
Even with the bigger margin of error of polls now.

The voters then perhaps doubting the Cons sincerity to ensure a deal was in place, so elected a Parliament that would ensure no deal was effectively removed from the scenario.