UK can cancel Brexit decision rules EU court

[Ike★ 2,906]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-46481643

 

Boris Johnson

[Goukosan 2,249]

lmfao 

[jehurey 3,228]

Hmmmm, doesn't this actually hurt the leverage power that the other EU countries have over Britain?

 

Giving Britain the option of "Takesy-backsies"?

 

These British right-wingers are basically trying to say that they don't want to leave EU, but they want to appear as if they are still tough in order to appease their idiotic base.

[Teh_Diplomat 2,054]

Someone summed this entire debacle last week in a nearly  perfect and succinct way about the entire Brexit deal offered by Theresa May.

 

Remainers: "We want to go the Cinema!"

Brexiters: "We want to go the Mall!"

 

Theresa May: "Alright, We're going to the Zoo!"

 

 

Remainers don't want anything to do with this deal for obvious reasons, and the Brexit crowd doesn't like the fact that they don't get out of the various European systems completely or fast enough,;add to the fact that they are none-too-pleased about Theresa May agreeing to paying the EU 39 Billion pounds for the privilege to leave, which may end up being closer to 54 Billion when all is said and done.

[Angelfish 93]

Can.  Doesn't necessarily mean it will happen though.  I'm not convinced that opinions have changed much on the subject although recent polls (if you trust them these days) have suggested there has been a slight swing to remain.  Having said that, the "People's Vote" campaign is definitely gaining ground although Labour can't universally support it since they know they risk losing strong leave voting areas in the Midlands and the North.  The Withdrawal Agreement vote has been cancelled however as it would have been voted down, no question.

[TLHBO 2,160]

Of course they can. Its been the intention from day one.

[McWicked 825]

'Member that time Nigel Farage went and met with Julian Assange?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/23/when-nigel-farage-met-julian-assange

 

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No press or cameras around, that is, until BuzzFeed turned up just in time to catch Farage leaving, 40 minutes later. “Nigel Farage Just Visited the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,” the headline said. “Asked by BuzzFeed News if he’d been visiting Julian Assange, the former Ukip leader said he could not remember what he had been doing in the building.”

 

'Member that time Russia tried to extract Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/17/julian-assange-ecaudor-russia-moscow-embassy-documents

 

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Newly released Ecuadorian government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate the WikiLeaks founder from his embassy hideaway in London by naming him as a political counselor to the country’s embassy in Moscow.

But the 47-year-old Australian’s new career in international affairs was nipped in the bud when British authorities vetoed his diplomatic status, in effect blocking him from taking up the post in Russia.

The files were made public late Tuesday by the Ecuadorian opposition lawmaker Paola Vintimilla, who opposes her government’s decision to grant Assange nationality. They largely corroborate a recent Guardian report that Ecuador attempted the elaborate maneuver to get Assange to Moscow just before Christmas last year.

Russian diplomats called the Guardian’s story “fake news”, but the government files show Assange briefly was made “political counselor” to the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow and eligible for a monthly salary pegged at $2,000.

Ecuador also applied for a diplomatic ID card, the documents show, but the plan appears to have fallen apart with the British veto.

Why do people like Farage and Manafort keep visiting Assange?  It's a goddamned enigma. 

[Teh_Diplomat 2,054]

So Theresa may went over to Europe while they delayed a vote in Parliament, while Claude Juncker was saying: There is 'no room whatsoever' to renegotiate Brexit deal.

 

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Junker[sic] offered May only additional “clarifications and interpretations” of the contentious backstop solution, designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.

 

The prime minister on Monday postponed the Commons vote on her Brexit deal, telling MPs that she recognised concerns that the backstop could trap the UK in a customs union without any means of leaving it.

 

 

 

Now you have Merkel re-iterating that very same line.

 

 

 

 

 

What a deal! Now you can put all that money (minus the 1 Billion given the DUP) into the NHS, amirite? 

[Angelfish 93]

IMO the EU were never convinced at any point that we were ever really serious about a 'no deal' scenario.  They should be as its looking more likely now.  Its too bad that politics gets in the way of economics as a no deal won't be good for the continent.  Tariffs on French Cheese and Wine, Italian Prosecco, Belgian Chocolate, German cars and so on.  

[Angelfish 93]

The situation could be worse (or better depending on where you sit on this):

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1057186/Brexit-news-theresa-may-brexit-deal-house-of-commons-vote-latest

[MalaXmaS 646]

lol at those brits.

Now they are backpedalling cowards too.

[jehurey 3,228]

This reminds me of something.

 

About 4-5 years ago, GM suddenly named a woman at their CEO. It was a surprising choice, and she was the first woman to ever head one of the automakers.

 

And then about 2-3 months after that, GM revealed that they had a serious problem about their car ignition switches that would randomly turn the car off while in the middle of a drive. The scandal was so bad it resulted in 124 deaths.

 

GM knew this was coming and they dump a woman in the head position to take all the incoming shit.

 

Whenever I see Theresa May, I think of the same thing. All the other guys who WANTED to get their face on camera when the Brexit referendum was going to happen, are off to the side, as they shove Theresa May's face front and center.

[Angelfish 93]

I respect her sense of duty to carry on but in hindsight it probably was a mistake having a Remainer Prime Minister that doesn't believe in Brexit in charge of the negotiations.  It lends itself to this belief that the establishment will do anything to delay, dilute and maybe even overturn it.  

[jehurey 3,228]

3 minutes ago, Angelfish said:

I respect her sense of duty to carry on but in hindsight it probably was a mistake having a Remainer Prime Minister that doesn't believe in Brexit in charge of the negotiations.  It lends itself to this belief that the establishment will do anything to delay, dilute and maybe even overturn it.  

Right-wing politics in the same in the US.

 

Like a dog chasing a cars.........they wouldn't what to do with it if they actually caught up to one.

 

Right-wingers thrive on getting people to vote for them by talking shit.

 

That's all they do is talk shit, claim that they are being oppressed, and they need to "take back their country."  I don't think a single right-leaning political party has ever presented itself with a positive message post-2000.

 

They only know one gimmick: Talk shit, say that the other people are hurting the country, therefore give them power.

 

Once they have it, they don't know what to do with it.

[McWicked 825]

26 minutes ago, jehurey said:

Once they have it, they don't know what to do with it.

Heavily disagree with this.  They know what to do with it, and it typically involves giving rich people tax breaks or undermining democracy.