Brexit

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Moggy wrote:

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An internal report by the Revenue Commissioners has spelled out the enormous physical and economic impact Brexit will impose upon both Ireland’s customs infrastructure, and on the tens of thousands of companies who trade with the UK.

The unpublished report, seen by RTÉ News, sets out in stark detail the vast increase in paperwork, human resources and physical space requirements at ports and airports.

The report also declares that an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic will be impossible from a customs perspective.

Theresa May is under pressure to publish secret legal advice that is believed to state that parliament could still stop Brexit before the end of March 2019 if MPs judge that a change of mind is in the national interest. The move comes as concern grows that exit talks with Brussels are heading for disaster.

The calls for the prime minister to reveal advice from the country’s top legal experts follow government statements declaring that Brexit is now unstoppable, and that MPs will have to choose between whatever deal is on offer next year – even if it is a bad one – or no deal at all.

The prominent lawyer Jessica Simor QC, from Matrix chambers, has written to May asking her to release the legal advice under the Freedom of Information Act. Simor says she has been told by “two good sources” that the prime minister has been advised “that the article 50 notification can be withdrawn by the UK at any time before 29 March 2019 resulting in the UK remaining in the EU on its current favourable terms.

Lagamorph wrote:Theresa May under pressure over ‘secret advice’ on halting Brexit

Theresa May is under pressure to publish secret legal advice that is believed to state that parliament could still stop Brexit before the end of March 2019 if MPs judge that a change of mind is in the national interest. The move comes as concern grows that exit talks with Brussels are heading for disaster.

The calls for the prime minister to reveal advice from the country’s top legal experts follow government statements declaring that Brexit is now unstoppable, and that MPs will have to choose between whatever deal is on offer next year – even if it is a bad one – or no deal at all.

The prominent lawyer Jessica Simor QC, from Matrix chambers, has written to May asking her to release the legal advice under the Freedom of Information Act. Simor says she has been told by “two good sources” that the prime minister has been advised “that the article 50 notification can be withdrawn by the UK at any time before 29 March 2019 resulting in the UK remaining in the EU on its current favourable terms.

bear wrote:http://www.rte.ie/amp/910662/

An internal report by the Revenue Commissioners has spelled out the enormous physical and economic impact Brexit will impose upon both Ireland’s customs infrastructure, and on the tens of thousands of companies who trade with the UK.

The unpublished report, seen by RTÉ News, sets out in stark detail the vast increase in paperwork, human resources and physical space requirements at ports and airports.

The report also declares that an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic will be impossible from a customs perspective.

We're gonna build a wall...

Lagamorph wrote:Plenty of EU leaders have said that they'd have no objections to it being cancelled, or it simply turning into a modification of the UK's membership rather than a full withdrawal.

I wonder if someone could take a case to the EU courts to force another referendum on the basis that the national government is acting against the best interests of the public.

Lagamorph wrote:Plenty of EU leaders have said that they'd have no objections to it being cancelled, or it simply turning into a modification of the UK's membership rather than a full withdrawal.

I wonder if someone could take a case to the EU courts to force another referendum on the basis that the national government is acting against the best interests of the public.

Cuttooth wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Plenty of EU leaders have said that they'd have no objections to it being cancelled, or it simply turning into a modification of the UK's membership rather than a full withdrawal.

I wonder if someone could take a case to the EU courts to force another referendum on the basis that the national government is acting against the best interests of the public.

I've seen a couple of people suggest that this is ultimately the main aim of the Tories' negotiating team. To use the referendum result as leverage to get a better deal than Cameron got then present it to the public as the best deal possible.

Moggy wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Plenty of EU leaders have said that they'd have no objections to it being cancelled, or it simply turning into a modification of the UK's membership rather than a full withdrawal.

I wonder if someone could take a case to the EU courts to force another referendum on the basis that the national government is acting against the best interests of the public.

I've seen a couple of people suggest that this is ultimately the main aim of the Tories' negotiating team. To use the referendum result as leverage to get a better deal than Cameron got then present it to the public as the best deal possible.

I’ve only seen that from two types of Leavers. One type who think they’re going to be “betrayed” and the other type that try to spread it in a hope that Remainers will believe it and so shut up.

May's party suspends two EU lawmakers over Brexit vote

Britain’s ruling Conservatives barred two of their own lawmakers in the European Parliament after they broke the party whip and voted for a motion demanding London do more to meet EU demands in Brexit talks.

“Julie Girling and ... Richard Ashworth were suspended from the Conservative Party last night after supporting a resolution ... to block Brexit talks moving forward,” the party said on Sunday in a statement that highlighted divisions over Britain’s move to quit the European Union in 18 months.

Prime Minister Theresa May supported the move. A government source said the two had behaved “totally irresponsibly”.

“They left the party no choice but to act,” Ashley Fox, leader of the 20-strong group, said in the statement, describing the decision of Ashworth and Girling, a former group leader and chief whip respectively, as “extremely regrettable”.

Girling, who like Ashworth and Fox opposed Brexit during last year’s referendum, defended her decision to vote with the overwhelming majority in Strasbourg on Tuesday on a non-binding resolution which urged EU leaders not to accept London’s request for talks on post-Brexit trade without further concessions.

“I did not vote to prevent trade talks,” she said, noting she called for such negotiations. However, she said in a statement that it was “patently obvious” that the EU’s test of “sufficient progress” on key divorce issues were not yet met.

Her vote, she said, put the interests of her constituents over party discipline and referred to support on the far-right for Britain to walk out without a deal: “I have never agreed to silently acquiesce as our country heads towards a cliff edge,” she said, describing that as “wanton economic self-harm”.