[Olog-hai]

I really do not get why they want to give all the advantage to the EU by invoking the wrong clause of the treaty. The right way to go is clausula rebus sic stantibus, which would put all parties on an even footing, and especially since the EU itself changed the circumstances under which the treaties were written multiple times already.

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[naturalman1975]

There’s a few reasons as I understand it, but the main one is that doing so could invoke challenges through the European courts to whether or not an EU member has a right to invoke that principle. Article 50 was introduced in the Lisbon treaty largely because of the debate over that.

The last thing Britain needs is European courts interfering on this issue - especially as the most likely court to be involved is an EU court.