Posted on 10/19/2019 8:26:16 AM PDT by Cronos
LONDON—British lawmakers voted Saturday to postpone a decisive Brexit vote, likely forcing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request a further delay of the U.K.’s departure from the European Union.
Parliament said it needed more time to review a deal Mr. Johnson concluded this week with European leaders that sets out citizens’ rights, a financial settlement with the EU and a special arrangement for Northern Ireland that would require customs checks on goods arriving there from elsewhere in the U.K.
The move was backed by opposition lawmakers, along with some who have recently left or been expelled from the ruling Conservative Party. By law, failure to ratify a Brexit deal by the end of Saturday requires the government to seek a three-month extension of the current Oct. 31 deadline for Brexit, potentially pushing back a departure from the bloc that has already been postponed twice.
...The amendment, presented by former Conservative Party lawmaker Oliver Letwin, states that the divorce deal only goes into effect once a swath of related Brexit legislation is passed through the lower house.
The resulting extension request would represent a setback for Mr. Johnson, who had repeatedly said he wouldn’t make such a demand.
Before the amendment was passed in an emergency session Saturday, lawmakers argued they wouldn’t have time to examine the small print of the agreement, which runs to more than 500 pages. Some complained there had been no assessment of its economic consequences
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This is bad for everyone.
Johnson was undeterred. He said he won’t ask for a delay and said he will put legislation before Parliament later this week to get Brexit done.
Everyone knows an EU extension isn’t in the cards. And Parliament already knows the terms.
Whether it accepts or not UK is gone by the 31.
No surprise at all.
I thought so too, but it is not 100% certain as I once thought. Remember, if Boris asks for an extension which leader would like to be known and blamed as the one who rejected it and consigned the UK to severe decline?
How long has it now been since UK voters soundly voted to LEAVE the EU? Why is it so hard for this to actually take place?
Once-Great Britain. Can’t even escape from the EU when only a parliamentary vote is needed. “The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!” Samuel 1:19. Pity.
They wont decline, they don’t want us to make a clean break. Wish they would, but it isn’t going to happen. They need usntoo much.
Because our ruling class is utterly divorced from the people they govern. They are Britain’s equivalent of the swamp.
1. They didn’t soundly vote. It was 52% of those who voted for leave.
2. There wasn’t and isn’t consensus on what type of leave.
3. To leave when nearly half don’t want to and even among those who want to leave, there is no agreement on what type of leave is difficult.
Half of the population don’t want to be separated. It would be like California leaving the union when only 52% said they wanted to leave.
They want you to leave now. The thing is that when the pain comes later all the leave voters will want to blame the EU for letting them go.
If they grant us the extension, we’ll know for sure won’t we?
The leavers will blame the EU for not granting an extension or for granting one.
Understood. So sad. ( as for californication, almost all of us wish it would leave already!)
In the case of the UK the vote was too close - half and half - for a very life-changing issue. No wonder there was angst and recrimination.
Leaving a confederation you have been tied to for years is not easy. And it is even less easy when half of the country doesn't want to - and 2 of the 4 constituent nations do not want to.
Leavers would for the most part be overjoyed if they refused to grant the extension. Blame for anything that happens subsequentyl will fall squarley on the shoulders of the remoaner saboteurs who did everything they could to undermine and sabotage Brexit by engaging to weaken our bargaining position and hampering preparations for no deal to make brexit seem as painful and pointless as possible in order to try and halt Brexit altogether.
I know I will hold them 100% responsible for any chaos or negative consequences that result in a disorderly exit from the EU.
Understood. The problem begins at the street level.
Leavers will blame the EU for not granting the extension when the UK economy falls off the cliff. The blame game has already started
Irish PM Leo Varadkar recently made the analogy that the UK saying it wants to leave the family-home doesn’t mean other family members are going to kick them out of the house.
But the EU d not want to give ammunition to the hard line Brexiteers by refusing an extension, not do they wish to inflict the lasting damage a no deal exit would cause to the UK and to a much lesser degree the EU
I’m just buying all the UK sourced auto parts I may while the exchange rate is still favorable.
Am I now to believe I should wait, that rates might get even better from this side after Brexit?
Classic cars are expensive to restore.
I wonder if after Brexit the UK might get it’s auto industry back?
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