You Can't Always Get What You Want...

[scooterscot]

Is there a time limit for invoking Article 50? Or is that like most of EU law open to interpretation?

Certainly is. The longer the UK keeps the shroud of uncertainty over the remaining 27 EU economies the more pi$$ed off the EU is likely to become. At some point the value of loosing the UK as a member versus the stability of the EU will be tested. When that happens the UK's only ace card will be played for us.

[scooterscot]

The use of the word punish in the article seems to imply the EU are the masters and we are the servants to be punished for doing something wrong.

And it appears that wrong was to listen to the voice of the people in a democratic vote.

27 against 1. Yes the EU are the masters. We were part of the master once.

They have to come across hard line to protect the EU.

[Flashman]

Reasonable article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...d=ss_fb-bottom

Highlights are:

That bloody veto again.

I'm sure we'll scrape by somehow.

Anyhow's who is going to pay our contribution to the EU budget now? <everyone looks at Germany >

Oh and don't forget you'll soon have open borders with Albania and Serbia. That'll be fun.

Ah the EU. Missing it already

[SueEllen]

I'm sure we'll scrape by somehow.

Anyhow's who is going to pay our contribution to the EU budget now? <everyone looks at Germany >

Oh and don't forget you'll soon have open borders with Albania and Serbia. That'll be fun.

Ah the EU. Missing it already

Lots of Serbians and Albanians here already.

Then again you live in a cultural back water so wouldn't know that.

[AtW]

Lots of Serbians and Albanians here already.

Then again you live in a cultural back water so wouldn't know that.

Them Serbians are putting honest Brits out of work at Wimbledon

[bobspud]

We don't need to talk to the EU at all. We could just walk away tomorrow. Shall we do it, do you think?
I'm beginning to understand something fundamental. You thickos outnumber us immensely.

That's the down side to any pyramid there is always more at the bottom than at the top.

[BrilloPad]

We don't need to talk to the EU at all. We could just walk away tomorrow. Shall we do it, do you think?

You have argued before that protectionist policies have served the US well for the last 100 years.

For the past centuries an open door policy has helped the UK. Do you think that should continue?

The EU has alot more to lose than the UK. The UK *could* just become like Japan.....

[MarillionFan]

The EU has alot more to lose than the UK. The UK *could* just become like Japan.....

Feck that. I didn't vote out so I could eat raw fish!

[NotAllThere]

Article 7 of the Lisbon treaty allows the EU to suspend a member if it deems it to be in breach of basic principles of freedom, democracy, equality and rule of law.

Who knows... if the UK pisses off the EU with inaction they may well just go ahead with the nuclear option. Not activating Article 50 is a clear violation of democracy of the UK people.

The UK is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. As has been pointed out several times, the government is not legally obliged to act on the will of a small majority of the people, so I don't think Article 7 can be invoked.

Since Farage said that unless there was a substantial majority in favour of remain, he wouldn't be going away, the government should have taken that as agreeing to requiring a 60% majority to change the status quo. Oh well, we are where we are and need to make the best of it.

[original PM]

We don't need to talk to the EU at all. We could just walk away tomorrow. Shall we do it, do you think?
I'm beginning to understand something fundamental. You thickos outnumber us immensely.

27 against 1. Yes the EU are the masters. We were part of the master once.

They have to come across hard line to protect the EU.

Which part of 'The EU are planning to punish a country for exercising democracy' are you struggling with?

You dense fookin tw@s

Are you happy to sign all our liberties over to a central European superpower?