EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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Oliver Schick

Sometimes, you just want to find a very, very hard wall ...

The former supreme court judge Lord Sumption has told the BBC’s Today programme that simultaneously asking the EU for an extension while asking the bloc to reject the request would not be legal. This is how Boris Johnson’s government is planning to sabotage any Brexit extension without breaking the law, according to the Telegraph.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/09/brexit-latest-news-eu-no-deal-bill-royal-assent-boris-johnson-parliament-politics-live?page=with:block-5d75f8438f082514879f081c#block-5d75f8438f082514879f081c

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jv in reply to @Oliver Schick

My understanding was that they were proposing to send a 2nd letter that outlined the government’s approach to the backstop and brexit (ie. doing nothing) so that the EU would deny the extension. That’s quite different than asking them to reject the request.

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🅑🅐🅣🅣 in reply to @jv

Straws, clutched at.
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christianSpaceman in reply to @jv

That’s quite different than asking them to reject the request.

Not sure that it is - writing a letter with "P.S. we're not going to do anything in the meantime lol" at the bottom seems explicitly designed to make them reject the request.

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