dixon and us is peter william porter. both for sticking around.lieve brags it won't happen. talk to me about how you get from what we have today to brexit not happening. william: it's been frustrating for game theorists like myself are either brexit being oversimplified or overcomplicated. let me give my interpretation. we heard the magic word with merkel, coalition. we are dealing with coalitions on either side. we've done the work on eu, we decided it will hold together as a coalition. that means the uk's in a game of chicken with a concrete block. when you do that, you of a choice. you will collide or swerve. if you look at this from the point of view of the politics within the u.k. as a player and it is complicated. we asked a couple simple questions. where does the consensus come from for a hard brexit? it is not there. you can't say that a 51.9% referendum vote is it. the question is where does the mandate come from for a swerve? thatnk we can slowly see the u.k., rather than ordering a la carte from the eu buffet is now realizing how binary