Theresa May to offer MPs no-deal Brexit vote

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The PM said she will put her withdrawal agreement - including any changes she has agreed with the the EU - to a meaningful vote by 12 March.

If that fails, MPs will be offered two separate votes the following day:

One on a no-deal Brexit

Another on requesting an extension to the two-year Article 50 negotiation process to delay EU withdrawal beyond 29 March.


Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47373996

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About time she conceded this. There will still be a vote tomorrow on whether to put in place the methods for parliament to take control of the process from her government, which was to force an extension. Since many of her ministers were saying they wanted to be able to extend the process, she had to do this to avoid a mass defection/resignations. I suspect the ministers will say this is enough for them.

This all assumes that all 27 other EU governments agree to an extension, of course.

[turbinetree]

1. Well she is hellbent on leaving....................

"Let me be clear, I do not want to see Article 50 extended," she told MPs.

"Our absolute focus should be on working to get a deal and leaving on 29 March.

"An extension beyond the end of June would mean the UK taking part in the European Parliament elections. What kind of message would that send to the more than 17 million people who voted to leave the EU nearly three years ago now?

"And the House should be clear that a short extension - not beyond the end of June - would almost certainly have to be a one-off."


Now that the people in the Kingdom see what will happen if she continues with her Tory Fascist mentality, of just watching jobs leave the country so that she can implement her Margaret Thatcher plan of austerity, which she will put into place to balance her Kingdom's debt sheet on the backs of the commoners.........................what a "clusterfuck", and her above comments in my opinion shows that she should be voted out of office, she truly is a right wing fascists, she is putting her ideology over country, she and other right wing racists cannot admit that this "clusterfuck" is wrong.......................

[Iliyah]

2. Well there is always Russia.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Britain should join a new, improved, Soviet Union?

Less "communist", more "kleptocratic"?

Those Euros look better every day.

[still_one]

3. What a stubborn person

[Javaman]

4. pride cometh before the crashed ecomony/depression. nt

[DallasNE]

5. How Is The British Economy Doing While All Of This Is Going On

Markets don't like uncertainty - although in the US that long held assumption is showing cracks as the stock market is robust under a great deal of uncertainty.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. not brilliantly - GDP growth in anaemic, though that goes for Germany too

The pound has hit a 21 month high against the Euro on this news that a delay looks more possible. There's meant to be a government assessment of how 'no deal' would hit the economy coming out today - I can't find it yet. "UK investors are the gloomiest in Europe"

[DallasNE]

8. Thanks

Looks to be less dire than some of the early forecasts. How much of Germanys problem is linked to an influx of immigration and, possibly, austerity.

[lakercub]

9. Labour

It sounds like Labour is finally trying to offer itself as a real alternative here. They finally appear to be backing a second referendum. I know a lot of the Labour Party always wanted to, but Corbyn's always been a Brexiter as well, so they never moved coherently in that direction.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47363307

Labour was absolutely setup by the Tory Brexit fiasco to get the government back and stop this nonsense. But it seemed like Corbyn has been in the way the whole time, which is, to me, a shame. Being an American I'm sure I don't understand all the party stuff going on, but it seems to me that Corbyn should have been replaced as leader if his position was to be the same as the Tories on the major British issue of the day. Whether it was a hard or soft Brexit, it seems to me Corbyn was still more on the side of Farage then he was the vast majority of Labour. I'm happy to be corrected, but that's how it appears in Colorado.