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To: Cronos

What would Britain be able to do in 2 months that they have failed to do in over 2 years?

Brexit NOW!


15 posted on 10/16/2019 4:48:32 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rjsimmon

“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


25 posted on 10/16/2019 5:37:37 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: rjsimmon

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


26 posted on 10/16/2019 5:38:43 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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