I wonder what Xavier’s husband (wife?) has to say.
The EU put up a bitter fight, to date.
The polling must stink for the EU
Who cares what Theresa May accepted? She is out of power and could not deliver anything. Any agreement with her is a dead letter.
Its hardly surprising the Yurps would whine that those who wanted to get out were the dishonest ones rather than their flunkies who wanted to remain in.
As far as the need for Britain to leave now, in that at least there can be some agreement. Do not agree to an extension once this deadline expires. Its as simple as that.
If you watched the clips of the tail-end of this UK-Lux meeting...Boris walked straight out, got into the car and left....no tidy-up speech as you have in 99-percent of this type meetings. The Lux ‘boss’? He blasted away on Boris. I suspect Boris did everything possible to insult the guy and the EU...virtually locking in no extension.
The EU-Brussels crowd itself might find some reason to extend them...but if you leave this to the 27 members, I think half of them are lacking any reason to extend this another three months.
the very very best possible thing for UK is to get the Helll out of the EU! ASAP!
smooth or rough, get your independence, your country back!
there will undoubtably be some adjustments pro and con, up and down....but your freedom is far far far more important imho
Do you have time to shill for the EU?
There is a war for you to go support...
Talk about a bunch of drama queens. Kick the UK out if you want them gone, that way Johnson can get on with things. World leaders too arrogant and shortsighted to realize that once one of the worlds strongest economies is no longer there to prop up their scheme, it’ll start to sink. Too arrogant and shortsighted to see that if/when Brexit happens and the UK signs a bi-lateral trade deal with the US, they’ll be left out in the cold and their union will start to crumble.
If President Trump is re-elected the EU is screwed.
There are some interesting things to know. Knowing some of these things helps to explain just how Great Britain finds itself with such a perplexing problem.
An Irish war of independence resulted in an Irish Republic separate from the UK in 1922. The counties making up Northern Ireland were not included in the new republic and remained part of the UK.
Not everyone affected by the Treaty agreed with the partitioning of Ireland.
In 1973, despite some lack of agreement that Ireland should be partitioned, both the UK (including Northern Ireland) and the Republic of Ireland joined the EU, as two previously independent nations.
The Republic of Ireland joined the EU with a remarkable distinction that set it apart from other EU nations. Modifications to the treaties that created the EU could be approved by the governments of the member nations but the Republic of Ireland could only change those treaty agreements by referendum of the voters. This gave Irish voters a direct say in EU governance that other EU citizens lacked.
Now comes the tricky part.
In 1998, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland signed the Good Friday Agreement to end the troubles in Ireland. One might ask, did the EU agree to the Good Friday Agreement? How could they not involve themselves in an agreement between two of their member states, each of which presumably had the power to leave the EU, that specified that there be no border controls between those two nations?
The answer, of course, is that EU nations do not believe in borders. They are globalists who believe that everybody should just get along and do what the government says to do.
At the very least, the EU should have insisted that Ireland and Great Britain could only join the EU if they agreed that if either one left the EU than both must leave. Allowing just one of them to leave the EU re-creates the very situation that the Good Friday Agreement was meant to solve.
From what I can learn, all the parties to the Brexit mess, including the EU, are getting what they deserve for having treated their national sovereignty with such disrespect.
Since the situation was a mess before Brexit, I don't see any way that it won't be a mess after Brexit.
If more knowledgeable people find that I have misunderstood some part of this I welcome correction.
If they truly would prefer the UK to leave it’s very simple - they simply have to deny an extension and decline to negotiate a new deal.
Even Labour wouldn’t bite on May’s “deal”.
31 Oct ain’t that far away...
We have no customs union with Canada.
We now have high tariffs on Chinese goods, but Canada to US smuggling isn’t significant despite thousands of miles of unguarded border.
There were duty-free shops in my youth.
No Dubliner is going to spend 20 Euros on petrol to buy stuff five pounds cheaper in Belfast.
Toyota operates globally and correctly pays the large numbers of different tax rates and amounts, as do other multi-nationals.
The Gaurdian -read no further.
Interesting. Wonder if this leftist Guardian writer also likes to use the word "crashout".
Brexit: Legal loophole ‘would allow Boris Johnson to deliver no-deal on 31 October’
Benjamin Kentish Political Correspondent @BenKentish
Sept 16 2019
The independent (uk)
Supreme Court: Parliament suspension case ‘a difficult question of law
Sept. 17, 2019
Bbc
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49722087
Why the EU should stick to the Brexit deadline and rule out any extensions
The Guardian
September 17, 2019
https://news.yahoo.com/why-eu-stick-brexit-deadline-090022455.html
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
Brexit: Varadkar ‘can’t agree to direct rule return’
By Shane Harrison
BBC
sept. 18, 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-49743816
alternatively NI could be cut loose to form a separate country, if only as an intermediate step...