I can’t follow anymore. After two years of negotiations, the Tory government wants to delay the vote. Just keep in mind that we will never let the Irish down. This delay will further aggravate the uncertainty for people & businesses. It’s time they make up their mind! #brexit
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) December 10, 2018
From top: Theresa May; a tweet from Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator.
This afternoon.
Brexit vote deferred.
Tory backbenchers demanding the removal of the backstop.
Large popcorn and a Maxi Twist, please..
Nothing to see here.
Expecting Huge Defeat, Theresa May Has Delayed a Crucial Brexit Vote (Time)
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Omnishambles.
I’m sure pollie will be on here soon explaining how the tories have the EU right where they want them.
French dwarf… Lisbon… laughing stock…hehehe….he x3… Angela Merkel… jump… paddy paddy paddy… how high?… whiff of the farmyard…English rose…little leo… backstop… overplaying hand…
have I missed anything?
Polish gardener for the bingo!
…did you miss your gratuitous soccer reference…
Jolly good show Brother, jolly good show…whatho chaps.
He’s fierce quiet. do ya think mom unplugged the router again?
Christ this is utter torture. If I was there and had voted for that crowd I would be absolutely livid.
Nice, if gloomy headline though!
…maybe Broadsheet could ask one of their contributors who has used his columns here to boast he has voted in the UK gereral election and the brexit referendum if he is livid…Dan Boyle…
The EU has our backs by refusing to countenance a hard border on the island. We couldn’t have asked for more support from Brussels than we’ve received.
The logical route out of this for the UK is a second referendum, but what a struggle it’s going to be to get there.
What is the reason for this? INFO VOTE© is way more likely after today.
If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy- David Davis.
The obvious answer is for the Brits to get out of Ireland. They can Brexit away then. They would also save so much more money.
What part of Ireland is that old sport ?
If you want the North you can have it.
Write a cheque for ten billion sovs a year and promise them free healthcare.
Do that and they’ll bite your hand off.
Until then hop on the barstool next to BB in his favourite expat Irish pub and sing the Wolfe Tones back catalogue while skulling warm porter and singing ” You’ll never beat the Irish. ”
Your national tongue is currently lodged between the backside cheeks of Angela Merkel’s rear quarters.
And they ain’t pretty.
You’re just pissing into the wind at this point old chap.
humiliation of this magnitude must hard bad
i almost feel sorry for you – then again, can’t help but laugh
“I don’t know a single English person who wants the North” says mushroom boy while the entire UK parliament refuses to countenance even considering splitting up the kingdom, even though it’s the only realistic solution.
Carry on Sasamachs! As we say in kung fu, when your enemy is falling into a well hand them a rock.
Ollie Climbdown
The reason is very simple. A peoples vote requires at least a 10 week campaign by Law. Working backwards that gives a date of January 18-19. By moving the vote to January 21 she has quite cynically taken this option off the table. I guess she hopes to focus minds in Westminster.
An extension to the negotiations is available at any time.
… only with full agreement of the EU.
Wow, I never knew that Maxi Twist was popular in the EI!