Richard Rudkin
Fantastic, we have been saved from vassalage and having to pay for the privilege.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 3:52 PM CET
Pierre Sixty
Bress (British Mess)
Posted on 3/29/19 | 3:54 PM CET
GEORGIOS FOTOPOULOS
I know both the EU and the UK government haven’t ruled it out, but does anyone seriously think the UK participating in the EU elections is a good idea?
Posted on 3/29/19 | 3:54 PM CET
Paul NL
Mr Tusk has already called an emergency summit for April 10. Mr Corbyn will start lobbying the EU for a long extension, if he has not started with this already. I had epected him to push a vote of no confidence today. He did call for new elections, if mrs May does not now change course. Next Monday will be a very important day for the HoC. Whether HMG will try to facilitate or to frustrate the process to find an alternative solution will probably make a lot of difference.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:02 PM CET
Heiko Quant
Probably won’t be the last time…
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:02 PM CET
Richard Rudkin
To put things into perspective we are two weeks away from leaving without a deal and the ship is running rudderless, we now need to get a captain to guide us to a port that is agreeable to all.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:06 PM CET
Tony Browne
It is a terrible deal cobbled together in secret by a terrible prime minister on the instructions of the cabal in Brussels and Berlin.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:06 PM CET
Stefan М
@Richard Rudkin: ”Fantastic, we have been saved from vassalage and having to pay for the privilege.”
The future of Brexit will be left at the mercy of European leaders,
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:08 PM CET
Stefan М
So far there is no Brexit and the future of Brexit will be left at the mercy of European leaders.
Cheers brexiters.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:10 PM CET
Donal O’Brien
Att Comment
Dear Politico
Yes the Threats and Derogatory Comments
will go on all Day
How could any Country forfeit it’s SOVEREIGNTY/FREEDOM to a TREATY that becomes International Law favouring the EU
Or to Quote Eric Blair aka George Orwell
A BOOT STAMPING ON YOUR FACE FOREVER
No Way
It has to be No Deal with some of the leading Tyrants in Brussells riding of in to the Sunset
With Massive Payouts
But anyone who believes there won’t be a Trading Relationship between Britain & Europe is just talking the usual Rhetoric
That comes from the Eurotrolls/ EuroBrits on a Daily Basis EVERYDAY
NO DEAL YES
Cheers for Brexit
Allways
Donal O’Brien
P.s
I hear the the Remuneration paid to INTERPERS will be SLASHED & Numbers Cut Considerably
YES HA HA HA
The Gravy Train is BEGGINING to CHUG
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:11 PM CET
Colin Earnshaw
Maybe the EU itself will come to accept that it was bad deal for the UK and the ‘backstop’ was never going to be accepted by (the clue is in the name) the United Kingdom – which includes Northern Ireland. So the EU has to accept it over reached itself in imposing the backstop onto May. PS I am a Labour supporter and Remain voter, and would still rather we remain in the EU, but that ‘deal’ was not an agreement worthy of name.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:11 PM CET
Blue Bell
@Heiko Quant
Probably won’t be the last time…
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncRkWJmRzX8”
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:12 PM CET
Elena Adaal
@GEORGIOS FOTOPOULOS
“…but does anyone seriously think the UK participating in the EU elections is a good idea?”
Yes I do.
A long extension is better than a no-deal, and having some ‘weird’ UK MEPs in the EP is no big problem. Farage was part of it for a long time so go figure. These populist weird MEPs are not united, often lazy and therefore not a drag on the functioning of the EP.
28 June 2016: Jean-Claude Juncker asks Nigel Farage in EU parliament: “Why are you here”.
23 May 2019 Jean-Claude Juncker will ask Nigel Farage in EU parliament: “Why are you STILL here”.
Delicious.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:13 PM CET
Stan
Richard Rudkin
“To put things into perspective we are two weeks away from leaving without a deal and the ship is running rudderless, we now need to get a captain to guide us to a port that is agreeable to all.”
What could be simpler.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:18 PM CET
Guy Croswell
It looks as if a national election should be held in the UK: obviously there is no other way. as Mrs May is clearly not willing to resign until she can claim brexit as her legacy.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:23 PM CET
Little Fauntleroy
In what way do we need a general election? Constitution working as intended. Parliament doesn’t agree then it can’t change law, this is working perfectly fine. We need a new government that’s for sure but that’s for the party with the largest proportion of seats in the commons to sort out.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:26 PM CET
Ted Doyle
It is long past time for a second referendum, only this time with a realistic narrative about the true impact of Brexit.
The last one advanced by the Brexiteers was riddled with lies about health care costs and a future economic relationship with the EU. The press should do a fact check this time around.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:27 PM CET
Donal O’Brien
Att Comment
Dear Politico
I bet that Drunker, Dusk & Barrier wished they’d never listened to SELMAYR and his insistence of inserting the BACKSTOP
When I and many outlined on numerous occasions
There is an agreed BORDER already functioning between NOI & ROI without a hitch
And most of all not COSTING LIVES
The EU what a DISASTER
Cheers for Brexit
Allways
Donal O’Brien
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:28 PM CET
Paul Cairns
The kinds of debate now being heard in the HoC ought to have begun two years ago – before Article 50 was ever lodged. The fact it is only now happening is in large part down to There May’s intransigent stubborn insistence on controlling the Brexit process and in making it her own personal crusade. Her downfall is rooted in believing that she could strike an impossible compromise to keep the factions in the Tory Party together (oh, and perhaps serve the interests of the nation)
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:30 PM CET
XK M
@GEORGIOS FOTOPOULOS
I know both the EU and the UK government haven’t ruled it out, but does anyone seriously think the UK participating in the EU elections is a good idea?
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It is not a matter of good idea or bad idea, it is matter of “no deal” or asking for more time. If the UK asks the EU for more time, then the UK will participate in the EU elections.
So, the quest one must ask regarding participation in the EU elections is; will the UK go for “no deal” or ask for more time?
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:34 PM CET
Robert Consuelo
The Great British Empire (that never was) is crumbling! The lonely island will become more isolated and lonelier, after the Brexit blunder ends Make UK Great Again! (good luck, you’re going to need it!)
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:34 PM CET
XK M
@Richard Rudkin
To put things into perspective we are two weeks away from leaving without a deal and the ship is running rudderless, we now need to get a captain to guide us to a port that is agreeable to all.
—————-
For Brexitears that port is Valhala, you need a captain with mechanical skills, navigational skill as well as magical (Harry Potter type) skills to see platform 13,5 that no one else sees 
so who is that captain who can fix the rudder and have the map to take you to Valhala?
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:42 PM CET
Tom WTF Cotton
Elena,
I do not disagree with you often but here I do: EU elections in Britain would be a bad idea – for Europe. The EU does not need a British delegation…especially no Farage types mooching on an EU salary.
This -legally dubious- decoupling exercise was a last desperate attempt by TM to save her party. Now that she has failed a 3rd time, despite doucheb*g support from JRM and Bojo, the stage is set for what Barnier referred to this morning: HoP gets a majority for a soft Brexit next week (will happen if Labor and the Grieve types work together – country over party) and then the EU will allow 2 deadlines: Try to get it through by 4/11 – if yes, and May commits to signing it, we are done. If it fails you choose by 4/12: Long extension which means EU elections and likely new UK elections – start from scratch.
Or reject that – and accidental No Deal it is.
The writing is on the wall: May will have to accept a Labor-led initiative for a soft Brexit – or choose No Deal. Either way her #1 goal -party over country- has failed. The Tories are done.
Break up will come – bravo! Champagne to that.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:45 PM CET
Paul Nurse
Guy Croswell
“It looks as if a national election should be held in the UK: obviously there is no other way. as Mrs May is clearly not willing to resign until she can claim brexit as her legacy.“
Not a chance that the Tory’s will support a GE while May is still the leader. They desperately need a new leader before going back to the public.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:47 PM CET
John Smith
This is a result that seems to have brought Leavers and Remainers together – showing that committees of civil servants based in Brussels probably aren’t the best placed to work out national destinies.
I think an election is unlikely, given Fixed Term Parliament Act, and Conservatives fearing losses. It’d really take the DUP to drive for new elections to make that happen.
The UK back (in purple?) in the EU Parliament seems more likely – but hard to predict those results. Leavers will probably have some kind of post-UKIP to vote for, but who would carry the flag for Remain? Labour? Lib Dems? Change UK (which sounds like they make fat-loss milkshakes)?
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:49 PM CET
Elena Adaal
@Tom WTF Cotton
“….the stage is set for what Barnier referred to this morning: HoP gets a majority for a soft Brexit next week (will happen if Labor and the Grieve types work together – country over party) and then the EU will allow 2 deadlines: Try to get it through by 4/11 – if yes, and May commits to signing it, we are done. If it fails you choose by 4/12: Long extension which means EU elections and likely new UK elections – start from scratch.
Or reject that – and accidental No Deal it is”
Its unrealistic to get any other deal than the current one through. Any deal will require at least months of carefull deliberations and negotiations in the UK and with the EU. Its not something you hash out in a few days.
A long delay – with EP elections for the UK – is needed for a completely different UK approach (general election or referendum or cross-party cooperation).
Having some UK people in the EP does not hurt one bit. Costs are like 0,005 billion Euro per year, and they are not united enough to cause serious trouble. We even may get some genuinly Europhile UK MEPs back in the mix. Remember the 2016 referendum was 52-48, So many, many people in the UK still want to be in the EU. It is not wrong that they are represented in the EP.
Posted on 3/29/19 | 4:54 PM CET
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lib crit
the tragicomedy continues
Posted on 3/29/19 | 3:49 PM CET