Where is the Option for 'None of the above'? Still think we are heading for a General Election. No one will have the balls (or the Parliamentary backing) to sign Article 50 which means the only answer is a GE followed by another, binding, referendum.
have a nice day mate, hope sun shines over Oban today,,,,,,,,,excellent posts from you this morning...
As usual, you have your finger right on the pulse. Theresa May Where she stands on Brexit: Backed Remain campaign but says vote to come out must be respected: "Brexit means Brexit... There must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door and no second referendum." Mrs May also said there should be no general election before 2020 and no "emergency" Brexit budget - and that she would abandon the target of eliminating Britain's Budget deficit by the end of the decade, a day before the chancellor himself abandoned it. Setting out her priorities for Brexit negotiations, she said "it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe". "Any attempt to wriggle out of that, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public." Michael Gove Where he stands on Brexit: "The British people voted for change last Thursday... they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law. They told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels. They rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country." He said "huge challenges" but also "huge opportunities" lay ahead for the UK. He ruled out a snap general election if he becomes PM - and he said he would abandon Chancellor George Osborne's target of eliminating Britain's budget deficit by 2020. Mr Osborne himself has since abandoned the target. He said he would wait until at least until 2017 to kick off the two-year process of negotiating the UK's withdrawal by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. "I will only trigger it after extensive preliminary talks ... so I have no expectation that Article 50 would be triggered in this calendar year," he said.
They are politicians. What they say they will do and what they actually do are never the same things. Any PM who tries to sign Article 50 without Parliaments approval would likely have an immediate vote of no confidence.
And would you? Would you put your life on hold, not be at home, made the big decisions that can affect millions negatively? Lovely in principle, and that is the principle we have btw, terrible in practice
The abandoning of any policy to eliminate the deficit, and by implication the acceptance of ever increasing national debt, has far reaching economic and political consequences. Just what they all are I really don't know, and I suspect very few if any people do, but what I do know is that it is a game changer.
i just realized. (remembered. you know what they say "if you can remember then you wherent there :Angelic i lived just along the road from the P+J. at that time. wish id known. i could of changed the coarse of history..and got a few years free room and board. unch::smileys:
Even if she can't win the leadership, should Andrea Leadsom overtake Gove to become the second runner she'll almost certainly win a prominent cabinet post in a May Government, as long as the contest remains amicable which I hope it will. I would welcome that. Someone with her economic credentials and commitment to Brexit is required at a senior level and she is the most fluent, likeable and electable candidate available. She is unknown of course, but that means she hasn't any electoral baggage either so maybe no bad thing.
So Gove won't actually enforce the result by issuing article 50 until 'he is ready and will resist all pressure to force it' Looks like we are staying in te EU folks at least we didn't spend millions on the campaigns..
