UK prime minister says Britain will launch Brexit by April

Associated Press ^ | Oct 2, 2016 7:32 AM EDT | Danica Kirka

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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday that Britain would trigger the formal process for leaving the European Union before April, putting to rest weeks of speculation on the timing of the move. […]

While the prime minister previously had hinted she planned to initiate Britain’s EU exit early next year, many observers had speculated she would wait until France’s presidential election ends in May. […]

The prime minister also said she would ask Parliament to repeal the European Communities Act, which automatically makes EU rules the law of the land in Britain.

May said her government instead would incorporate all EU laws into British law and then repeal measures as necessary on a case-by-case basis. …

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Still playing by the EU’s rules and giving them all the advantage. The UK has every right to invoke rebus sic stantibus, given the way the EU has been behaving towards them ever since the referendum result and the many treaty violations the EU has engaged in.

[lafroste]

I am sorry, not very educated here. Please translate “rebus sic stantibus” and explain. Thanks.

[OttawaFreeper]

This was discussed on an earlier thread and someone brought up the very valid point that time and care both have to be taken when doing something like this. When you are removing a dead conjoined twin from the alive and healthy one, you just can’t indiscriminately take a butcher’s knife to the whole thing.

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It literally means “things standing thus”. It’s part of the Vienna Convention, and basically means that a treaty may become non-binding due to the conditions on which it was based being changed to a substantial degree.

[Olog-hai]

Text of European Communities Act 1972