General Discussion
Of course the UK is a global trader, and if we ever get unshackled from the EU we will be an even bigger and better global trader, able to strike trade deals with whomever we please. It's interesting to note that the EU has recently signed a free trade agreement with Japan which will come into force sometime next year, but the Japanese will not be paying billions into Brussels, accepting free ...
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I was merely pointing out that, as ever, you cannot trust a word the BBC says.
Ah, BBC Reality Check. Which just the other week was telling people that the 1975 referendum was all about whether we should join the EEC. Not much of a reality check, is it? Must be written by teenage interns.
Unless there is a change in the law then we automatically leave the EU on March 29th next year. The transition period is something else entirely.
So a Remain supporting House of Commons is attempting to overturn the result of the referendum, doesn't say much about democracy does it? However, these MPs have already passed the Withdrawal Act which stipulates we leave with or without a deal on March 29th next year. There will need to be major shenanigans in parliament for this to change.
May now has a guaranteed minimum of 117 Tory MPs who will vote against her Remain deal, plus the DUP. Corbyn has denounced her sham deal and will carry Labour MPs with him. We are now closer to a no-deal exit than ever before, it is enshrined in law that we leave on March 29th, that's just over 100 days away. May's strategy of trying to bounce MPs into accepting her deal at the last moment will ...
If she survives tonight's vote the DUP will withdraw support, and she'll go down in January when she tries to get her Remain deal through parliament.
Some people don't agree with democracy.
I don't know what news you are following, but everything I am seeing says May's deal hasn't got a chance of being passed by parliament. Leavers and Remainers are united in their condemnation of it.
