Posted on 10/16/2019 1:36:33 AM PDT by Cronos
Chief Brexiteer Nigel Farage has said that Boris Johnson should accept a delay to Brexit.
In a video on his YouTube channel, Farage addresses the Prime Minister directly – calling on him to accept the Brexit extension that’s been “forced” on him by MPs.
Indeed, if Johnson doesn’t come back from Brussels with a deal this week, he is mandated to ask the EU for a Brexit delay until 31st January 2020.
And now, after haranguing MPs for weeks for “betraying” Brexit, Farage is also in favour of a delay.
He says that Johnson should “sit out” this week’s EU summit, “accept the extension,” and go into the next election arguing for a no-deal Brexit – rather than spending any more time negotiating with the EU.
This is a pretty baffling change of heart from Farage, who organised a “Brexit betrayal” march earlier this year when MPs decided to delay our departure date. Under the same rules, he should surely now organise one against himself, right?
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They would have to become UK citizens first. EU citizens font have right to vote unless they are Irish.
I think he will get the deal now and leave on 31 Oct
They would still have some way to go. Catholics are still a minority and more likely to view themselves as British than protestants likely to view themselves as Irish. You also have to remember that many devout Catholics are horrified at the secularisation in the republic, and I have heard of some formerly staunch Republicans stating they will vote DUP because their Christian values are more in sync than with the increasingly godless republic. The northern Irish are still very religious compared to the rest of the uk and Ireland.
Sadly the remainers have literally made it illegal to “crash out”. The only way it could happen is if the EU vetoed an extension, which they won’t, because of that damage you mentioned. If the EU rejects this latest attempt at a deal, our only hope is with a general election and a new parliament with a Tory majority.
“What would Britain be able to do in 2 months that they have failed to do in over 2 years?”
Note that the advisory referendum was in June 2016.
In October 2016 parliament voted to call article 50.
Article 50 sets out a 2 year period when the leaving party should negotiate a deal.
The UK called Article 50 in March 2017 giving it to end of March 2019 to leave.
the UK government negotiated and hammered out a deal in November 2018.
Of course the stupidity is that the UK government had an unnecessary election in May 2017 - when they already had a majority. They lost the majority and had to get into bed with the DUP, making them beholden to DUP interests
AND the UK government didn’t check with parliament before negotiating to understand Parliament’s red lines.
Since November 2018 the UK hasn’t been able to make up its mind about the type of deal or no deal or whatever it wants.
BUT, now they are fed-up and Boris can get them to pass this deal (which is basically a may deal redux with the backstop over NI only, not the whole UK).
It looks possible
and “Brexit NOW” - that’s not possible unless Boris puts a bill before parliament stating that they want to leave now (presumably you mean on 17th October 2019) - and he won’t have the majority for it without a deal
Which is why Farage wants a delay - if Brexit is delayed, there is a likelihood of an election and he can play kingmaker.
If there is no delay and a deal happens before October 31, then Farage’s party is toast.
BREAKING: two senior EU sources say the main stumbling block to a deal has been removed with the DUP accepting the latest proposals on consent... Optimism a deal can now be done...— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) October 16, 2019
after a no-deal, he would be in a worse position to negotiate.
It would be similar to “we can negotiate ObamaCare after we pass it”
10% of the other 27 countries’ exports go to the UK, but nearly 56% of the UK’s go to the other 27.
Everybody hurts :)
Besides even after a no-deal the stickling point is still the Irish border — the Republic of ireland does NOT want to give in and the Irish are driving the eu move.
Garage has already put a clean Need it above his role in UK politics. He has feared over the last month that Boris would go wobbly and that’s what has happened. Farage is on target per usual.
the republic will become islamic soon enough
OK, it's illegal. Boris does not comply. He does nothing until November 1. Then what?
Nigel is afraid Boris will accept a still very crappy deal only slightly better than Theresa May’s surrender treaty and call it “progress”.
I hope he’s wrong about Boris and that unlike Theresa May, Boris will actually stick to his guns.
We’ll see.
Nah, there’s about 1 % Muslims - less than the USA
Technically parliament made it illegal for him not to ask for an extension if he doesn’t get a deal by October 19.
So, parliament said no to a deal, no to a no-deal, no to a cancellation and no to anything!
I disagree.
What is the "deal" that he's supposed to negotiate? The biggest parts are tariffs, movement of people, and what EU regulations UK will stay in compliance with.
What incentive, right now, do the EU negotiators have to yield on ANY point, knowing that Boris is mandated to accept whatever deal he can get?
but there is literally no resistance; islam feeds on cultural rot, and the looney left is embracing all things non-Christian in Ireland at an extremely rapid pace
The trade parts of May’s deal was acceptable even to Rees Mogg.
The only dispute was over the Irish border
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