• Agreement made to delay Brexit until Oct 31st
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European Union leaders and the British Prime Minister Theresa May have agreed to an extension to Brexit that will allow Britain to delay its EU departure date until October 31, with a review to be held in June after a plea from Mrs May. The late-night deal means Britain will not crash out of the bloc on Friday and gives Mrs May more than the three months she had asked for to build a parliamentary majority behind the withdrawal treaty she negotiated with the EU last year. The 27 EU leaders agreed their joint stance during talks in Brussels and their chairman, Donald Tusk, has now taken it to the Mrs May for her approval. Mr Tusk confirmed the EU move in a tweet on Thursday. EU leaders and May to delay Brexit until October 31 to stop UK c.. Spooky Halloween everyone.
It also means that the UK will attend their (not hopefully and likely) final EU election too.
"gives Mrs May more than the three months she had asked for to build a parliamentary majority" Oh lawd I can't wait to see her fail again!
They just gonna keep delaying until the UK is a whole new generation of people and then revote
While Its on topic... their polling has gone down to second place. https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1116208675306209280 And also noted, the two parties (Change UK and the Brexit Party) will appear on few polling for now, due of polling companies are likely denying their existence.
Well, it also does not reflect to well on the EU. Most of the people I know are disgruntled with the lack of authority by the EU and that we are almost being taken hostage.
brexit feels more than ever like a fucking rehash of groundhog day at this point
How are we being taken hostage? We failed to leave and requested an extension, and they granted it. There's no ransom requested.
Why we just couldn't let them crash and burn to fucking learn the lesson. FFS
Oh my god fucking either LEAVE THE EU or STAY. Just get it over with I'm tired of hearing about the delays in it.
this isn't going to go well for both parties involved, Britain will still probably elect a bunch of europhobes again and the EU now has an endless brexit.
This is a massive decision which will impact most of the rest of our lifetimes, so honestly I'd rather they took a bit more time to try to get a good outcome. Of course, May is probably going to use this to get in another 20 meaningful votes instead of any actual change.
Is there any push in the UK to stop article 13 and brexit from going ahead and conduct a re-vote?
A revocation of Article 50 is unlikely to happen before another referendum, but support for the latter has gained ground in parliament. What eventually ends up happening though will be decided by the inevitable general election.
So we're leaving on Halloween? I don't really have a joke here but it just seems appropriate somehow.
No, but many people do perceive that the UK is dancing on the nose of the EU so to say. I'm not necessarily sharing this sentiment though.
That's my thought, she's gonna basically fatigue people into supporting brexit just so something gets done instead of actually re-evaluating the whole thing.
Leave means stay. This is pure democracy in action.
Cool so they have another 7 months to distract the public with Brexit news while the Tories throw more oppressive laws under the radar
Alternate title: the United Kingdom gets renewed for one final season. Seriously though, delays and extensions aren't going to accomplish anything in the long run, you ran out the clock on this once already and you're most likely going to do it again. Just have a second referendum already.
At this point it's starting to feel like delaying Brexit is the computer in the hatch in Lost. Brexit must be delayed every 108 minutes or something horrible will happen.
I don't mean in the intentionally confusing terms that have been used, I mean in the literal stay in the EU or get out of it because there has been more than enough time to get a plan set up if they were actually serious about it (which they shouldn't be, leaving the EU is a terrible idea and will absolutely destroy Britain's economy.)
i suppose this means now that brexit is as good as dead after this, the case for a second referendum is only going to get bigger, especially since it's become obvious that nobody is capable of making a deal which satisfies all parties
The actions of a state should not have those they govern take the punishment.
to celebrate this amazing opportunity parliament decides to get straight to work and have a break https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211551/9e1387e5-2acc-41eb-969f-51971d034766/image.png
Literally "meh I'll deal with it later".
This has already gone past the point of being boring and is now tiring, shut the fuck up and make a god damn decision already, I'm sick of hearing about this shit.
The EU: https://youtu.be/dEtm_Q2LK9g
https://i.imgur.com/Zybh2Tk.mp4
When Brexit first started to run into trouble, a theory started going around that it wouldn't actually ever get resolved, Brexit would continue to always be pending but never actually happen, it would become some weird fun fact about history, like those wars that didn't officially end because someone forgot to invite Andorra to the peace treaty signing. I didn't use to give much credence to the idea but it's starting to grow on me. Mainly because now I can see why such a situation might be stable. An anti-EU British government can't leave because it's just an awful idea, the North Ireland issue makes a hard Brexit still involve giving up some sovereignty (unless you want to kick off a war again). A pro-EU British government might not cancel Brexit, because it's a useful tool for negotiating - if you have to vote periodically to stay in, well, everyone will be a bit less hard on you when negotiating EU trade deals. Plus, officially cancelling it would be bad PR, better to just ignore it. And the EU probably won't push to hard for Britain to leave, since it will hurt the EU to have them gone (though not so much as the UK will suffer), and there's always the chance of another referendum going Remain. It's not a super-stable equilibrium but it is one that would take a fairly large disruption to break out of. I could see it lasting a decade or two. Or it could end the next time there's a Parliamentary election.
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