No. They actually think this.
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Wrong, British politics has gone "post truth". Nobody has the attention span for sensible arguments so if it doesnt fit in a tweet or a hastag then you're wasting your breath.
#makestuffup
It's a bit sad because it reminds me the 2012 presidentials in France, I just don't understand people.
It was probably the internet's fault really. People can read a single article on any subject, and walk away feeling like they're educated. Because you can find a highly biased article on almost anything and people naturally gravitate towards sources that share their existing prejudices or beliefs then suddenly you have people convinced they know better than experts who spent their entire life studying something. I've lost count of the number of people I've seen on forums or Facebook utterly convinced they know the facts about something insanely complicated and technical and declaring that decades old established evidence is actually wrong.
And?Says the guy living in Holland.
Honestly, I don't think that it would change anything. The mind-set that everything coming from the EU is evil and the only purpose of the EU is to subjugate Britain won't change. Suffering economically would be sold and perceived as an heroic act. If it wasn't so sad that this kind of BS is sticking, it would be hilariously funny.
Meanwhile in India.....I wonder if they want to seal a free trade deal at this point
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...shashi-tharoor-jallianwala-bagh-a7395051.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...shashi-tharoor-jallianwala-bagh-a7395051.html
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That's good for the UK as they can test the waters and revoke the notification if they don't get the deal they want only to activate it again and start from scratch. Its the sort of thing that would destabilise the EU which is something most Brexiters want
Not really, they can't revoke the notification, I suspect that Lord Kerr believes that the EU will diplomatically pretend that nothing happened if the UK wanted to stay but that's not a given.
According to Lord Kerr they can.
There will be repercussions of course but those repercussions are somehow limited. The EU is a lion without teeth. You can't even kick somebody who had voted to leave in the first place.
And according to his text, they can't. They are not even in a position to unilaterally lengthen the negotiation process, let alone revoke the notification, since when the withdrawal notification is sent and received the withdrawing country can't be a member of the EU council and lose all voting rights. It is also clearly stipulated that the absence of agreement still leads to the withdrawal.
Just read the text.
I will.
There again, if you can't trust the one who actually wrote this damn article then who can you trust? Why such great nation had ended up with so many incompetents in power?
My favourite post amidst the hail storm of toys exiting prams on the last few pages.
"People should accept the vote and move on, like I'm doing even though I don't live in the UK".
It's not a matter of 'accept, and move on', it's more a matter of 'how the **** do we make this work?'
In the previous page, Pedro Mendes and I posted almost all you need to know, just look it up.
Of course you can. That's not even a question.
You can't. The EU can suspend an EU country from enjoying the benefits from the EU (and that option is almost impossible to activate). It can't kick a country out of the union
But when you invoke the article 50 and the EU receives it you are out, it's almost immediate. You are not out after two years, the two years are only the time during which you are allowed to use EU treaties while negotiating for your future treaties but from the moment you withdraw yourself, you lose all executive rights, basically you are out.
There is no one to kick out, because you left.
My favourite post amidst the hail storm of toys exiting prams on the last few pages.
"People should accept the vote and move on, like I'm doing even though I don't live in the UK".
Your chidlike response assumes that that i have zero ties to the uk. No family, no capital, no house or anything that will be affected by eu exit.
Yet i am for it and channel my energy into more positive things, i have taken measures to make sure what i have left in the uk, will be unaffected by any outcome.
I have my doubts mate. I mean you're basically saying that Lord Kerr doesn't know what he wrote
No, I'm telling you that Lord Kerr for good reasons believes that the EU will be flexible because that word is actually used in the Lisbon Treaty and that the EU will be kind enough to accept a revoking in exchange of a king ransom. And in theory it's possible because nothing can legally prevent the EU from doing just that.
It's more likely he's trying to create a situation where things can be wound back, despite that not being the original intent. Bear in mind that he never actually expected us to ever do this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-37852628
He explained: "It is not irrevocable.
"You can change your mind while the process is going on.
"During that period, if a country were to decide actually we don't want to leave after all, everybody would be very cross about it being a waste of time.
"They might try to extract a political price but legally they couldn't insist that you leave."
Well he did sound clear to me.
"You can change your mind while the process is going on.
"During that period, if a country were to decide actually we don't want to leave after all, everybody would be very cross about it being a waste of time.
"They might try to extract a political price but legally they couldn't insist that you leave."
*sigh*
JP is correct in saying that the texts of article 50 don't mention the option to revoke. Therefore, Lord Kerr's position would need to be taken to the Court of Justice - the irony would be priceless.
However, let's pretend the EU would just 'forget' about the notification. It is entirely possible that they are so annoyed with this back and forth and waste of resources that they won't make the concessions Cameron had negotiated. Bottom line would be a worse deal.
But in any case, this won't happen. The UK will leave, the question is just by when and under which terms.
Edit: BTW, the EU can force member states out. The hurdles are high though.
And that's the thing, they don't have to insist that you leave because you already left. The period he is talking about is the very short period between the notification of the withdrawal and the official reception/recognition of the said withdrawal by the EU institutions. It's not the 2 years of legal negotiations because when that period starts you are already out.
So if the EU doesn't wait and immediately recognize the withdrawal, there is no legal comeback.
I suspect nobody here has read it in full
I suspect even if anybody had they probably wouldn't understand it fully
I suspect even if they did they wouldn't understand it as well as the chap who actually wrote it
I suspect plenty of people on here will still think they know exactly how it all works...
I am directly quoting a post from a German citizen from CiF in the Guardian. It perfectly conveys my fears regarding this current situation:
British newspapers react to judges' Brexit ruling: 'Enemies of the people'
Back in June the initial the reaction here in Germany was shock that the British electorate could be so uninformed. That was followed by amusement as they witnessed Boris Johnson (as foreign secretary, he-he-he) and Liam Fox displaying total ignorance of facts and Theresa May repeating the mantra "Brexit means Brexit" to an empy dining room with the waiters waiting to clear up.
Now it has turned scary. When the majority of UK newspapers denounce British High Court judges as traitors it is no longer funny. Germans, along with other Europeans, are getting worried. After all they remember that Hitler liked referendums, he held four!
The first one in 1933 was on withdrawing from the League of Nationshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1933
The second referendum in 1934 allowed him to hold the dual office of head of state and head of government. http://history.info/on-this-day/1934-hitler-declared-fuhrer-after-referendum/
Then he destroyed the free press and the judiciary
British newspapers react to judges' Brexit ruling: 'Enemies of the people'
Back in June the initial the reaction here in Germany was shock that the British electorate could be so uninformed. That was followed by amusement as they witnessed Boris Johnson (as foreign secretary, he-he-he) and Liam Fox displaying total ignorance of facts and Theresa May repeating the mantra "Brexit means Brexit" to an empy dining room with the waiters waiting to clear up.
Now it has turned scary. When the majority of UK newspapers denounce British High Court judges as traitors it is no longer funny. Germans, along with other Europeans, are getting worried. After all they remember that Hitler liked referendums, he held four!
The first one in 1933 was on withdrawing from the League of Nationshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1933
The second referendum in 1934 allowed him to hold the dual office of head of state and head of government. http://history.info/on-this-day/1934-hitler-declared-fuhrer-after-referendum/
Then he destroyed the free press and the judiciary
As said, I find it very hard to believe that this man doesn't have a clue what he wrote. He doesn't strike me to be of the same ilk of Boris and Davis
That's not what the text of the document says though unfortunately. It basically doesn't matter what he says now, if it wasn't written in as a legal option.
It's not uncommon to see legislators interpret their own text differently than how they actually wrote it.
It's very true that nobody on the caf knows more than the guy who wrote it.
However, it really isn't unusual for people to write a law or legal document only to be surprised when it is interpreted to mean something other than what they intended.
The fact that he wrote it doesn't automatically mean he's right when he comments on its details as it's the interpretation of others that counts more than his own view or intentions.
Even without being a Boris, he could still be wrong.
I am aware that there are Brexiteers who genuinely believe that the UK is better off outside the Union. However I also believe that a big chunk of them supported the nuke option because they thought that the EU is too weak to let the UK go and would therefore bend over backwards to their demands. Some might even saw it as a way to destroy the union and return to a time when the UK could exploit a divisive Europe for its own benefit.
Which makes me wonder how these people would react if Europe manage to raise to the occasion and it refuses to give the UK a good deal?
Till the time of writing, most if not all European countries seem to be determined to protect the EU project. They are aware of the economic challenges ahead but seem ready to tank these challenges rather then allow the EU to get weakened furthered by giving concessions to a third party country. Considering that the UK would end up cut away from an entire continent with little to no political influence over the continent would that push those Brexiteers to a tactical retreat. I know its a long shot but imagine what the British people's reaction would be if the EU (unshackled by what is becoming known at the continent as the 'enemy within') does prosper while the UK ends up in a recession. We all know who would take the blame for that.
Media and politicians really have descended into the gutter, judges not so much.
That 'openly gay judge' comment by The Daily Mail is outrageous really. I know they're scum of the earth but that's just next level fascism now.
Scary times.
Scary times.