it wouldn't be a guarantee

it would have been a pragmatic recognition that a no-exit backstop would never be politically acceptable to the UK.

Neither party would have ever have exercised it.

Heck all it really needed was to have widened out the scope of the existing escape clause (the one that says either party can break for societal changes etc) or firming up the existing provision that was to the effect that the parties can exit if there's no longer a technical impediment to it.

Small drafting changes that would have been enough of a hook to get it through.

Or if even those were too unpalatable to the EU, an open admission that No Deal was always going to be inevitable.

Posted By: CWC on December 10th 2018 at 13:32:06

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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