Article 50 won't be triggered this year under Gove

[tomtomagain]

David Cameron should “swallow the frog” and send the formal notification to leave EU ASAP, and move forward. Will be better for everyone.

What would be the point in that? Far better to wait until we have actually decided what we want "Out" to look like, have staffed up and trained a negotiating team and have informal talks with other non-EU future trading partners underway.

There's no rush. It to took 43 years to get this far. If it takes a few more months to begin the exit procedures then that's no big deal.

[AtW]

David Cameron should “swallow the frog” and send the formal notification to leave EU ASAP, and move forward. Would be better for everyone.

He won't do it and he got no authority to do it anyway.

[Mordac]

He won't do it and he got no authority to do it anyway.

Technically he has the authority, but he's already said he won't, having previously indicated he would (honour the outcome of the referendum). Only it didn't go quite to plan, so it was toys-out-of-the-pram time and he ran off with the ball.

[Bee]

He won't do it and he got no authority to do it anyway.

He has the authority, he is in the goverment until October.

[SueEllen]

He has the authority, he is in the goverment until October.

While you think it is simple it is not.

He has to get parliament to vote on a few laws before evoking it and at least one of those bills is a new law that has to be written from scratch.

[OwlHoot]

David Cameron should “swallow the frog” and send the formal notification to leave EU ASAP, and move forward. Would be better for everyone.

Absolutely (BTW, FYI the usual phrase in English is "bite the bullet")

But you must remember Cameron is a pathetic coward, and no doubt still hopes he can somehow engineer things to prevent Brexit happening.

[northernladuk]

While you think it is simple it is not.
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Debatable.

[CretinWatcher]

Debatable.

As we found out during the referendum, the obvious is debatable if one party in the debate is stupid enough.

[jamesbrown]

While you think it is simple it is not.

He has to get parliament to vote on a few laws before evoking it and at least one of those bills is a new law that has to be written from scratch.

TBH, I think it's rather pointless debating it further on here. There are respected authorities on both sides of this. My personal view (aligned with Lord Lisvane, for example) is that they absolutely can exercise prerogative power, if they wish, but that it would not be politically expedient to do so.

In terms of triggering Article 50 quickly, that would be stupid. Aside from the consolidation and planning that we need to engage with, it's one of our few bargaining chips. If the Gov't are willing to bargain with EU citizens living in the UK, they'll most assuredly be willing to use this as a bargaining chip. That the EU institutions are whining so much about us invoking it quickly is evidence of this leverage. They have other mechanisms to encourage us (e.g. the French talking about Euro clearing), but we have these too (e.g. Gidiot talking about the UK becoming a tax haven), but that isn't going to end well, and the nuclear option (Article 7) isn't remotely plausible.

[SueEllen]

Debatable.

I don't think you are suppose to continually insult other posters.