EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

St George and the Unicorn :)

First paragraph typical Tory: it was the guy before me, it's their fault

Thank fuck I don’t live in Surrey.

FPTP is the democraticwillofthepeoplesovereignty™ way.

It would be more representative of the current shit show: 48% of the turnout wanted to stay, and various proportions of the other 52% wanted various types of Brexit, but only their Brexit. Give them their choice. Unless you hate democracy, of course.

Any bias is a mirror to the facile nature of the first referendum.

Are there likely more No Deal idiots than Remain idiots? I'd expect that even some of the Leavers are smart enough to think that Brexit at any cost is bonkers, comparednto Brexit with a deal of some sort.

Can you even legally put that forward?

The UK Parliament is sovereign. They can put anything forward.

Moreso with a referendum.

We also have Failing Grayling here in A safe Tory seat. No one is safe.

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Yes! They've betrayed the will of the people!

Parliament v The People etc.

So the UK parliament can put something forward that, when voted in, breaks international law and screws over an UK country?

I'd see that as problematic. And how are you going to even implement that?

Front page of tomorrow’s independent that EU will agree extension of Art 50 for GE or 2nd referendum. Loools....proper trolling. The EU haters gonna be mega triggered and baying for a no deal crash out on 12th April.

Ive got money on Article 50 to be revoked and then immediately reactivated, rather than 'negotiating' a further extension.

The UK government then controls the timetable for leaving.
Its politically untenable but so is May, so she might as well.

This is not legally possible.

What's the black and white flag all about?

Well, it's not Cornwall/St Pirans

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Knights-of-Templar-Masonic-3x5-Polyester-Flag-Black-White-Background-Red-Cross-/172670588739

Quite a rabbit hole

Fascists, mostly http://powerbase.info/index.php/Knights_Templar_International

coat of arms or livery of the worshipful company of racists probably

There's pretty heavy wording around the intent/nature of a revocation. It specifically prohibits doing what you suggest.

Can't say it hadn't crossed my mind though.

There's pretty strong representation on that petition from the Welshest parts of Wales...

Legally possible to revoke.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2018-12/cp180191en.pdf

'The United Kingdom is free to revoke unilaterally the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU'

However the wording suggests an act of parliament might be needed and as we already know triggering article-50 certainly needs an act of parliament.

'The revocation must be decided following a democratic process in accordance with national constitutional requirements. This unequivocal and unconditional decision must be communicated in writing to the European Council.'

But you can't revoke with the intention of reinvoking simply to effect a scheduling change.

I think that the pertinent paragraph of that ^ ruling is:

The revocation by a Member State of the notification of its intention to withdraw reflects a
sovereign decision to retain its status as a Member State of the European Union, a status
which is neither suspended nor altered by that notification.

Revoking as a means to unilateral force a mere scheduling extension would not reflect a sovereign decision to retain our status as a Member State of the EU and hence the revocation would be seen to be unlawful.