Posted on 03/22/2019 11:52:59 AM PDT by OddLane
The DUP’s Westminster leader Nigel Dodds has denounced Mrs May’s entire approach in a statement that all but guarantees her deal will not pass next week. The outcome of yesterday’s EU summit seems to have been the last straw. The DUP rejection also casts severe doubt on whether the confidence and supply arrangement that gave her a working majority can survive, at least under her leadership and without a hard Brexit prime minister succeeding her and able to deliver it.
It may be that as the government casts around for an alternative to her deal, they are implicitly withdrawing from the DUP deal anyway. None of the suggested alternatives disposes of the backstop because the withdrawal agreement would survive, being eligible for replacement only in the next stage of negotiations for the final relationship. As the threat of No Deal by whatever name recedes, so it seems do the DUP’s terms for agreement and their leverage in Parliament...
This is an outrage!!!!!!!!!!
What’s the DUP? :)
Dirty Under Pants
Whether I am a member of that party or not is no one’s business!!
:)
Thanks.
So what happens next?
I’ll let you know what’s happening next week, if you’ll let me get back to you next week.
hard brexit end of month?
Where am I going? :)
You usually know more than me on these subjects so i was looking for your best informed opinion :)
UK should have been planning for HARD BREXIT from the minute the referendum passed...
The EU has ZERO reason to let UK go, let alone do so painlessly, it is in its own best interest and survival to make sure the UK is punished, to prevent other nations from leaving the bloc.
Just pull of the bandaid and get it over with already. England has been around for over 1000 years, its been in the EU less than 30, it will survive without being in the EU...
And why am I in this handbasket?:)
lol
Took me a minute to get that one :)
Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold Britain back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
Don’t you care what they’re going to say
Let the Euroweenies rage on
The Krauts never bothered you anyway
Why hasn’t she been ousted yet?
The EU's reply to her was essentially "we'll give you another two weeks to get your heads right" and gave not one millimeter in concession otherwise. If they'd thrown her a bone to take back to Parliament it might have accomplished something in the way of swaying the vote, but all it really served to do was further harden the resolution of the Brexiteers.
Democratic Unionist Party is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. Ian Paisley founded the DUP in 1971, during the Troubles, and led the party for the next 37 years. Now led by Arlene Foster, it is equal with Sinn Féin in having the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and it is the sixth-largest party in the House of Commons. Following the 2017 general election, the party agreed to support a Conservative minority government on a case-by-case basis on matters of mutual concern.
Hard Brexit in less than a week or toss the lyin' wench to the curb! Britain will have a "Canadian Plan" but not until after they exit the EU. The German and Frog economy will go into convulsions if one of their biggest markets disappears due to WTO rules which will go into force after Brexit.
Britain will weather this storm, inspite of the naysayers and be stronger because of it.
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