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brooklynite

(94,598 posts) Tue Apr 2, 2019, 01:19 PM Apr 2019

Brexit: May to ask for short article 50 extension and offers to meet Labour leader - live news

Source: The Guardian

May says the extension would be “as short as possible” and would end once a deal was struck.

She says any plan both she and Corbyn agreed upon would then be put to MPs for approval with a view to it being taken to next week’s European Council meeting.

If she and Corbyn cannot agree a unified approach, May says, then a series of options for the future relationship would be put to the Commons in a series of votes. The prime minister adds that the government would abide by the decision of the House – but only if Labour did so too.

May also says she wants the process to be finished by 22 May so that the UK does not have to take part in the European Parliament elections.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/apr/02/brexit-latest-news-live-cabinet-theresa-may-barnier-says-extending-article-50-again-to-help-uk-would-pose-significant-risks-to-eu-live-news

Wasn't this what the April 12 extension was supposed to provide time for?

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Brexit: May to ask for short article 50 extension and offers to meet Labour leader - live news (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2019 OP

Problem is there seems to be quite a bit of Labour support for Brexit. comradebillyboy Apr 2019 #1

+1 nycbos Apr 2019 #5

Just when I think Brexit can't get any stupider, they rise to the challenge. Pope George Ringo II Apr 2019 #2

She's said they'd need to get any agreement before April 12 muriel_volestrangler Apr 2019 #3

Breaking News video just in... Baclava Apr 2019 #4

A fair compromise would seem to be to hold a 2nd vote... nycbos Apr 2019 #6

Link to The Guardian nitpicker Apr 2019 #7

comradebillyboy

(10,154 posts)

1. Problem is there seems to be quite a bit of Labour support for Brexit.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Apr 2, 2019, 01:38 PM

Apr 2019

And Corbyn is every bit as incompetent a leader as May.

nycbos

(6,034 posts)

5. +1

Reply to comradebillyboy (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 2, 2019, 04:18 PM

Apr 2019

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)

2. Just when I think Brexit can't get any stupider, they rise to the challenge.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Apr 2, 2019, 02:22 PM

Apr 2019

At this point, I'll be pleasantly surprised if they don't deliberately back up every sewer in London just to prove they can.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)

3. She's said they'd need to get any agreement before April 12

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Apr 2, 2019, 02:58 PM

Apr 2019

Mrs May met her cabinet for more than seven hours on Tuesday. Afterwards, she said she wanted to agree a new plan with Mr Corbyn and put it to a vote in the Commons before 10 April - when the EU will hold an emergency summit on Brexit.

If she and Mr Corbyn do not agree a single way forward, she proposed putting a number of options to MPs "to determine which course to pursue".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47794235

So, if they can agree something, it's put to the Commons, and you'd hope something agreed by the leaders of the 2 largest parties would pass (and I've seen nothing saying anyone in the Lords is going to try and stop anything, so that should get through that house on the nod). It would have to involve leaving by 22 May. If they can't agree (or if the Commons rejects it somehow), you have, on the 11th I suppose, a final vote that somehow decides between 'no deal', May's draft agreement, straight revocation of Article 50 (incredibly unlikely, I'd say) or something else that has to go at the last moment to ask the EU 27 to consider. Which they may or may not do, and may or may not put conditions (EU elections ... a referendum?) on.