If we revoke we stay in

The you can't withdraw the Art 50 notice just to re-issue it a little ways down the line. That's a clear abuse of the process (contrary to public international law principles of good faith) and it would utterly destroy our relationship with the EU (such that it is) and so would risk cementing a No Deal scenario.

More likely is a jointly agreed extension to the Art 50 process by 12 months or up to the end of 2020, to give time for whatever Plan B/C/D etc is.

Quite why a break right to the backstop wasn't agreed in negotiations is beyond me - Art 50 doesn't have a backstop, so you'd have thought a reciprocal 2 year notice period would have resolved that one, with each side knowing that in practice neither side is ever going to exercise it as neither side would want a hard border. May would have her deal, but for that point.

Posted By: CWC on December 10th 2018 at 12:55:21

Message Thread

May chickens out - Brexit vote postponed (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 10, 12:09:53
- Better than “May tits out” I suppose (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Dec 10, 15:32:21
  - Not sure I want to see that........ (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 10, 18:25:55
- In protest there should be a nationwide Booooooooooooooo-in at 16:50 this coming Saturday. (General Chat) - Dracula, Dec 10, 13:51:31
- What a clusterfuck (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Dec 10, 13:43:49
  - *brexiteer (n/m) (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Dec 10, 13:44:14
- Will be interesting to hear what the statements say this afternoon (General Chat) - Jim, Dec 10, 12:33:26
  - she's getting very desperate from the sounds of it (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 10, 15:55:23
  - Revoke it and then trigger it again an hour later. Extension obtained. Simple. (n/m) (General Chat) - paulg, Dec 10, 13:36:57
  - No (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 10, 12:56:35
    - You could revoke it if Parliament voted to revoke it whether to stay in or to (General Chat) - Jim, Dec 10, 13:50:19
      - becuse in that example (General Chat) - CWC, Dec 10, 13:54:02
        
        So you are saying that if the EU27 refused an extension and we revoked it we could not (General Chat) - Jim, Dec 10, 14:05:13
        
        it depends dunt it (General Chat) - CWC, Dec 10, 14:39:14
        
        Bloody hell (General Chat) - Old Git, Dec 10, 15:22:01
        
        I do not like the lazy arsed assumption that there are only two sides involved (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 10, 17:22:12
        
        Revoke A50 means we stay in the EU exactly as we are now (General Chat) - Dunney, Dec 10, 14:30:17
        
        and join other groups within the EU in a concerted bid to reform it (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Dec 10, 14:40:44
    - ah, as per CWC below. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 10, 12:57:09
  - If we revoke we stay in (General Chat) - CWC, Dec 10, 12:55:21
    - just as a point of principle, how do you have a guarrantee that can be broken at anytime? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 10, 13:24:33
      - it wouldn't be a guarantee (General Chat) - CWC, Dec 10, 13:32:06
        
        "an open admission that No Deal was always going to be inevitable." (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 10, 13:36:39
- strong and stable... (n/m) (General Chat) - CWC, Dec 10, 12:16:42
- Just cancel this whole scam. Simple. (n/m) (General Chat) - Dunney, Dec 10, 12:13:53
  - Absolutely stay in the EU and join the single currency. (General Chat) - MORDENCANARY, Dec 10, 13:54:15

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