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Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo

posted by martyb on Wednesday December 12 2018, @12:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the Third-Verse-Same-As-The-First dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46509288

"Prime Minister Theresa May has called off Tuesday's crucial vote on her Brexit deal so she can go back to Brussels and ask for changes to it.

"As it stands the deal 'would be rejected by a significant margin' if MPs voted on it, she admitted."

The biggest stumbling block appears to be the issue between Ireland and Northern Ireland. In particular, what the borders will look like in terms of what people and goods will need to do or not do in order to cross it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @03:11PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @03:11PM (#773467)

    my reasons for voting to leave the Fourth Reich are very simple.

    How supposedly intelligent people fail to understand this [britannica.com] is beyond me. An unaccountable commission tabling legislation proposed by the round table of industrialists in pursuit of political and economic expansionism that will apparently require an army. Yet leave voters are the ones who are called "thick" and "fascistic"?

    politicians [...] are clueless mendacious self-centred and self-serving backstabbing weasel mouthed duplicitous arseholes.

    Care to elaborate on this? Don't hold back - tell us how you really feel!

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:54PM (#773517)

    Yet leave voters are the ones who are called "thick" and "fascistic"?

    The loudest ones in any group are generally either one or the other, or both.

    But given that almost as many people voted to remain as did to leave, I could justifiably call the absolute refusal of many leave voters to accept any kind of compromise "thick" and/or "fascistic".

  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday December 12 2018, @05:22PM (1 child)

    by fritsd (4586) on Wednesday December 12 2018, @05:22PM (#773536) Journal

    An unaccountable commission tabling legislation proposed by the round table of industrialists in pursuit of political and economic expansionism that will apparently require an army.

    Don't worry -- lots of that "tinkle-down-on-the-peoples-necks" neoliberal crap will disappear from the EU together with its main instigator and promotor, the Tory-led UK! :-) Hopefully the rest, the EU27, will now shift the EU as a whole slightly towards more Portugal-like [wikipedia.org] politics, now that that ball-and-chain the UK removed itself voluntarily. Only 3 1/2 more months to go! Then the political "Gestalt [wikipedia.org]" of the EU will slowly change to reflect the new composition.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday December 12 2018, @10:39PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 12 2018, @10:39PM (#773738) Journal

      Hopefully the rest, the EU27, will now shift the EU as a whole slightly towards more Portugal-like politics, now that that ball-and-chain the UK removed itself voluntarily.

      This narrative of discarding the second largest economy in the EU (even after almost two years of Brexit) and then remodeling the EU on one of the shittier economies in the place is a really great story. It will no doubt flounder spectacularly on the shoals of reality, but the striving shall long be spoken of in song!