Brexit will happen on Oct. 31 despite PM’s unsigned delay request, UK says
https://nypost.com/2019/10/20/brexit-will-happen-on-oct-31-despite-pms-unsigned-delay-request-uk-says
What Brexit followers seem to miss is the very real and powerful Trump factor.
Parliament cannot suspend the PM from entering a trade agreement with the United States in the same spirit of USMCA with the UK granted favorable trade status.
The US is now a worldwide oil and gas exporter with proven reserves that dwarf those of Saudi Arabia.
The US can designate the UK to be the trade policy broker for all US oil & gas into the European continent. The commissions alone will make the UK very rich.
The US economy is larger than all of the EU.
Britain’s future with the US is more lucrative for them than any trade agreement with the EU, and less interfering.
There is no downside. The EU can attempt to retaliate against the UK for entering an ‘unauthorized’ trade agreement with the US by hammering tariffs on British goods sold into the EU.
But it won’t work because the US on behalf of its prime trading partner the UK will retaliate against the EU by imposing powerful debilitating tariffs on EU goods coming into the US.
In short, if the EU starts a trade war against the UK for making a trade agreement with the US, the US retaliation will devastate the EU. The EU loses.
I’d like to think that is true but I doubt the US would be willing to lose money just to prop up the UK.
Apparently, Parliament under the FTPA and with the Supreme Court sold out to globalism can prevent the PM from going to the bathroom without permission.