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MikeG said:
Don't forget that the European parliament and Commission is breaking up for its summer holidays now anyway, at much the same time as the British parliament, so the chances of doing any substantive work on the divorce settlement is approaching nil. This "do it now" stuff is just posturing.
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They managed to round up enough warm bodies to 'manage' the Greek crisis at the same time last year. The importance of voting in EU crises is overestimated ;)
 
GlennB said:
They managed to round up enough warm bodies to 'manage' the Greek crisis at the same time last year. The importance of voting in EU crises is overestimated ;)
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yes. Greek PM replaced to get their way. Check.

Italian PM replaced to get their way. Check.

it's not like there isn't precedent here.
 
Degeneve said:
I have read yesterday that such a petition was running and had already gathered 130000 signatures, but I don't know to which extend this is true and, if true, whether this could have a real incidence on the whole Brexit process.
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true. over half a million now. https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedking..._referendum_hits_half_a_million/?ref=readnext

Degeneve said:
Not sure one could find a UK government willing to start a new referendum process...
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then the EU will likely appoint one for us ;)
 
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I rather like Charlie's take on the situation.

The Brexit referendum was initially a red herring; a proxy struggle for control of the Conservative Party, with Boris Johnson suddenly turning his coat to march in front of the Leave campaign because it offered his best -- arguably his only -- chance of winkling David Cameron out of Downing Street before his scheduled retirement in 2020, by which time Boris would be 59 (and by British standards too old to be a first-term Prime Minister).

But in the process of squabbling over their own party the euroskeptic Conservatives opened the door to the goose-stepping hate-filled morons of the extreme right. The results include the first assassination of an MP -- unconnected with the Irish independence struggle -- in nearly two centuries, an upsurge in racist attacks on minorities and the disabled, and finally a demented protest vote by the elderly (voters under 25 broke 75% for remain; the over-60s voted over 66% for leave)

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CASE NIGHTMARE TWEED :D
 
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Would you want to belong to a club that threatens to break your legs if you ever decide to leave?
 
What's done is done.

Less moaning and more planning.

Don't embarrass yourselves
 
ceptimus said:
Would you want to belong to a club that threatens to break your legs if you ever decide to leave?
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:rolleyes:

Aepervius said:
yikes

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/25/europe/brexit-eu-leaders-meet/index.html
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Utterly unsurprising.

Aepervius said:
Depends. Is this the one BJ-a-day club ?

You can't say without weighing advantage and inconvenience.
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I don't know if the proposed 'Cafe Fellatio' in Geneva does specials...
:)

Aepervius said:
It makes much more sense than the "and we'll drink honey forever" brexiter estimate of the future.
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Stross is far more intelligent, and vastly better informed, that the average brexiter.
 
kevsta said:
yes. Greek PM replaced to get their way. Check.

Italian PM replaced to get their way. Check.

it's not like there isn't precedent here.
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Do you have evidence for your assertions, or is it just more nonsense? (Hint: EU doesn't have control over individual governments; we would otherwise got rid of right wing idiots far sooner...)

ceptimus said:
Would you want to belong to a club that threatens to break your legs if you ever decide to leave?
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More hyperbolic idiotic nonsense. How are we breaking your legs? Answer of course is: We don't. All we are doing is slamming the doors shut sifter you.

Nobody is interested in idiotic nonsensical similes.
 
catsmate said:
I believe it's within the scope of the commission, supported by a qualified majority, to declare that the referendum is de-facto invocation of A50.
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Not a chance, IMHO.

The referendum is not legally binding according to the UK constitution (ie parliamentary sovereignty), or so everyone says. Article 50 says:

1. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.

If anyone declared the referendum to be such a decision, this would violate the right of the state to make the decision according to its own constitution.
 
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