It's official: the UK can cancel Brexit unilaterally

[Lowland]

That one woman called this whole thing exactly what it is. May is bluffing hard and hoping the EU will give in at the last moment because they want to avoid a no-deal situation. She's playing a game of chicken, expecting the other guy to swerve to avoid first. She doesn't seem to understand that with the EU being made up of almost thirty members, expecting them to do anything at the last moment is so ridiculous, it's like she's on the train tracks pedaling straight towards an oncoming freight train.

[RainbowStalin]

Boris Johnson looked like shit the morning of the referendum result, probably didn't help that he woke up to a couple hundred people outside his house all yelling about what a wanker he is.

[GordonZombie]

As a nation we've lost more face through this whole farce than if we'd either just left or remained outright. Nothing is going to restore that, it just makes us look weak for our indecision.

[Conely]

hey wait his hair doesn't look as ridiculous as usual. does that mean he actually groom himself every morning specifically to look stupider?

[thisguy123]

Who drew that? Did you draw that? I need to know what magnificent bastard drew this shit so I can shake their hand.

[proboardslol]

It's been known that the referendum was non-binding, but once notification was given, the EU had said "if you're leaving then hurry the fuck up and get out". Now they're saying you can cancel all this stupid shit any time you want and stay in the EU no questions asked.

I assume because European unity against Eastern (Russian) aggression is more important than the principle of the matter

[smurfy]

What actually happened is that, since Article 50 (the mechanism for withdrawing from the EU) was only invented less than 10 years ago and has never been used before, no one had thought about whether you could revoke it once you invoked it, and whether you could do that unilaterally or only with the agreement of all the member states.

The UK government and the European Commission (executive branch of the EU) both said that Article 50 could be revoked only with the agreement of all member states, and that was generally accepted as the correct position. But then a group of Scottish politicians filed a legal challenge arguing that it could actually be revoked unilaterally. The challenge worked its way up to the European Court of Justice (Supreme Court of the EU) which has now ruled that they're right and it actually can.

So the EU didn't change its mind, it just turns out that its initial position was wrong.

[Jessica Cannon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjp5OmoDYQM