mike_field
Vital Football Legend
I can find little disagree with in the above posts - good comments chaps.
It's happening-Just hope it isn't another false dawn! I can't see they have any option on the matter. The screaming fact for me is held in the last paragraph that Downing street and Brussels refuse to comment
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LONDON (Reuters) - British and European officials are discussing the possibility of extending Article 50 amid fears a Brexit deal will not be approved by March 29, The Daily Telegraph reported, citing unidentified sources.
The Telegraph cited three unidentified EU sources as saying British officials had been “putting out feelers” and “testing the waters” on an extension of Article 50, Britain’s formal notice to withdraw from the European Union.
A spokeswoman for Downing Street declined immediate comment on the report, as did a spokesman at the British ministry responsible for exiting the European Union.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ssing-delay-to-brexit-telegraph-idUSKCN1P127W
That would seem like a sensible British solution to the problem, keep saying that you are leaving while indefinitely extending article 50.
Never mind "a piss up in a brewery", our shambolic government couldn't organise "a traffic jam in an airfield." 89 lorries?
£550 each? FFS....
https://news.sky.com/story/lorry-drivers-paid-550-each-for-no-deal-brexit-rehearsal-11601201
Never mind "a piss up in a brewery", our shambolic government couldn't organise "a traffic jam in an airfield." 89 lorries?
£550 each? FFS....
https://news.sky.com/story/lorry-drivers-paid-550-each-for-no-deal-brexit-rehearsal-11601201
Easy money for them I would think! Yup I think all this is preparing for a second referendum IMHO
Would an extension pave the way for Corbyn, Abbott & Co to get the keys to the negotiation table?
It's interesting that the poll numbers are still so strongly in favour of Brexit. If there is a second referendum, it's going to get very messy and deliver the same outcome.
You really couldn't tie Britain up in a worse knot if you tried.
From a poll I read not so long ago, broadly there is still a very large Leave proportion although there is some switching from leave to remain. The noticeable thing for me is those that “would not vote” has hardly fluctuated! Everything going on and the remainers (according to a poll at least... enough said) can’t even rely on those who can’t be bothered. That has been an argument for a second referendum is the additional votes from the can’t-be-bothered-vote lot but I’m not sure it counts for a net +1.3m votes. Essentially it would need 0.6m leavers to change their mind.
The second interesting point is the leavers want two different things. Half (perhaps the more rational leavers) want some sort of softer Brexit whilst the other half (and it was split 50:50) want a hard Brexit.
So some sort of deal with a customs union but allows us control of our borders back and breaks away from the EU legal systems feels like the right thing for half of leavers (25%) and a lot of remainers like myself who think we need to have some sort of leave to satisfy the electorate here but keep close ties with the EU.
If they divide the vote between remain, hard or soft, remain will win. I suspect that one is a little too obvious but you never know.