Posted on 03/16/2017 1:56:48 PM PDT by naturalman1975
History has been made today after the Queen gave Royal Assent to the Brexit Bill - clearing the way for Theresa May to trigger the divorce.
Speaker John Bercow told the Commons that the monarch has formally signed off the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill.
But although the PM now has the powers to invoke the two-year Article 50 process for leaving the Brussels club, she has indicated she will wait until the end of the month to do so.
The legislation's addition to the statute books - becoming an Act - comes after weeks of wrangling in parliament as Remoaner MPs and peers fought to water down the Bill.
Mrs May and Brexit Secretary David Davis successfully fended off attempts to amend the text of the two-clause legislation in the Commons.
But when it moved to the unelected Lords, where the government does not have a majority, Labour and Liberal Democrat peers joined with crossbenchers and a few Tory rebels to pass two changes.
The resistance was finally overcome on Monday night, when MPs overturned the amendments - which had sought to force Mrs May to guarantee rights for EU nationals already in the UK and pledge a 'meaningful' vote in parliament on a final Brexit deal.
The House of Lords then finally backed down from a confrontation with the elected chamber, allowing the Bill to pass unchanged.
Mrs May has said that the invoking of Article 50 will be a 'defining moment' for Britain.
Mr Davis said today that the government now had the power to 'deliver on the will of the British people'.
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Slowly they plodded...
By 2020 they may actually be out.
Were Rev. Wm. Archibald Spooner still alive, I am certain he would call out: ‘Let us all glaze our asses to the Queer Old Dean!’
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God Bless the Queen. Well done.
This process will never be complete. The U.K. is one of the ten (10) end time nations of the Beast Empire. (Biblically the feet of iron and clay in Daniel 2:33ff) The Beast Empire will come against Israel at Armageddon. Unfortunately, that will include the U.K.
In my estimation, that will occur in the year 2021.
For full details, read “The Rescue of the Bride” at http://october-5-2017.com
Blessings to you and your loved ones.
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