Posted on 01/20/2019 11:29:33 AM PST by aspasia
Nigel Farage is being lined up as leader of a new pro-Brexit party if Britain’s departure from the European Union is delayed beyond 29 March.
The former Ukip leader said he had offered his enthusiastic support to the Brexit party after being sounded out as its potential leader.
Catherine Blaiklock, Ukip’s former economics spokeswoman, confirmed she had applied to register the party with the Electoral Commission on 11 January and that it would be ready to fight any snap general election or the local elections across England in May.
She told the Guardian on Sunday: “I think people feel treason has been committed. It’s democracy. It wouldn’t matter whether leave had won by a single vote – it’s a first-past-the-post system.”
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Farage should be PM.
Nigel Farage quits Ukip over party's 'obsession' with Islam and advisor role for Tommy Robinson
The possibility of the UK remaining in the EU is made possible by Art. 49 of the Lisbon Treaty which outlines recission of intent to leave.
That can be triggered by sending a formal letter to Brussels canceling action contemplated under Art. 50.
No further action would be required.
Farage will only splinter the weak and pathetic Conservative party and hand the keys over the anti-Semitic socialist wacko Corbyn
Brussels already sent the invitation. But it wasn’t addressed to the electorate.
My, doesn't that sound familiar.
There was already a vote. There shouldn’t be another, as if the first didn’t matter.
If he is going to organize anything, it should have different goals, and aims. It should demand even more.
So he’s going to split the “leave” voters with UKIP. The establishment must be thrilled.
That can be triggered by sending a formal letter to Brussels canceling action contemplated under Art. 50.
No further action would be required.
Is it a very selective reading/interpretation of Article 49 that does what you mention?
The words as I read them don't really follow and it sounds almost like a new application...
Article 49
(ex Article 49 TEU)
Any European State which respects the values referred to in Article 2 and is committed to promoting them may apply to become a member of the Union. The European Parliament and national Parliaments shall be notified of this application. The applicant State shall address its application to the Council, which shall act unanimously after consulting the Commission and after receiving the consent of the European Parliament, which shall act by a majority of its component members. The conditions of eligibility agreed upon by the European Council shall be taken into account.
The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the Union is founded, which such admission entails, shall be the subject of an agreement between the Member States and the applicant State. This agreement shall be submitted for ratification by all the contracting States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.
The "new application" is actually a part of the last sentence of article 50
5. If a State which has withdrawn from the Union asks to rejoin, its request shall be subject to the procedure referred to in Article 49.
Things aren’t as simple as that. The Labour party is also divided on Brexit, and whilst the Parliamentary Labour Party and the grassroots of the party are pro EU, Corbyn is lacklustre about it at best, and the voters in the traditional Labour heartlands of the North and Midlands voted heavily for Brexit, and in the 2015 elections UKIP came second thanks to ukippers who would rather cut bits off themselves than vote Tory. UKIP is not simply a party full of disgruntled, renegade Tories.
UKIP came second in the individual constituencies that is.
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