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posted by martyb on Friday November 04 2016, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-government-is-"appealing"? dept.

Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled.

This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU - on its own.

Theresa May says the referendum - and existing ministerial powers - mean MPs do not need to vote, but campaigners called this unconstitutional.

The government is appealing, with a further hearing expected next month.

A statement is to be made to MPs on Monday but the prime minister's official spokesman said the government had "no intention of letting" the judgement "derail Article 50 or the timetable we have set out. We are determined to continue with our plan".

Plebiscites only count when plebes vote the way they're told.


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  • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Friday November 04 2016, @09:25AM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Friday November 04 2016, @09:25AM (#422420)

    If you all remember, that the first days after the vote a gaggle of Euro officials stood up and denounced the result threatening "to make things very difficult for the UK".

    At the time, I remember thinking "Not a single one of those people was elected, being the appointed cronies of the commission".

    And this is the issue - the EU is in deep trouble and Brexit is a distraction.

    John Oliver said it best (paraphrased) "If the UK had just waited a few months, the EU would have fallen apart and they wouldn't be blamed for the mess...."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @09:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @09:46AM (#422424)

    Ah, an Express reader. Or is it the Torygraph?

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday November 04 2016, @12:44PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Friday November 04 2016, @12:44PM (#422457) Journal
      Probably the Express. Both show up in my news feed. The Express is rabidly pro leave to the point of being completely postfactual in a number of cases - every other news outlet from Fox News to Al Jazeera says one thing, the Express says the opposite. The Telegraph is a bit schizophrenic because it's still trying to appeal to the Tory readership, who span both camps. It ranges from gloating pro-leave pieces to terrified pro-remain 'OMG the world is ending' pieces. It's pretty confident that it's all Corbyn's fault though, whether it's leaving or delaying leaving.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @07:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @07:50PM (#422582)

    Is that the same John Oliver that called all of the brits on the side of leaving racist then went and had a 5 min bigoted song and dance?

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Friday November 04 2016, @08:45PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 04 2016, @08:45PM (#422619) Journal

    You must have seen Farage's soliloquy to the European Parliament where he ranted and raved like an inebriated lunatic after the referendum? He couldn't have been more insulting and ungracious. The only things missing were the half-smoked cigarette dangling precariously from his flapping mouth and a can of Special Brew.