This afternoon.
British PM Theresa May’s letter to the president of the European Council Donald Tusk in which she asks that the Brexit process can be delayed until June 30, 2019.
Britain was scheduled to leave on March 29, 2019.
Via Faisal Islam
Theresa May is seeking a short Brexit delay – what happens next? (The Guardian)
Yesterday: He Is Among Us
UPDATE:
JC Juncker’s spokesperson says he warned her – before today! – not to extend beyond May 23 or the UK would have to hold European elections.
Today: Citing European elections, May says no extension beyond June 30 https://t.co/0FIYYsiwfk
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) March 20, 2019
Irish Govt spokesman: “The Government will consider recent developments including the Prime Ministers’s letter at its Cabinet meeting this afternoon.”
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) March 20, 2019
French news magazine Le Point suggests Macron will VETO any extension to Article 50 talks, ergo any delay to Brexit: https://t.co/DY578X3HUK
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) March 20, 2019
May to bring twice-defeated deal back to parliament (RTE)
“Yours ever (pain in the mimsy-tushkin)” is right.
It reads like something you’d compose to explain to your teacher why you hadn’t prepared your homework.
It reads like a begging letter
Mise le meas.
It is a begging letter. Three lions in the dirt.
This is beyond embarrassing, it’s being reported from Brussels that the EU will refuse any short term extension beyond 23 May when the elections for the European Parliament are scheduled. And that ties with what Juncker said a week ago. Surely to God, the UK would have checked this out before writing that letter seeking an extension to 30 June.
https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1108345786704846848
It’s odd that she would insist on the June deadline when already knowing the Juncker was insisting on 23rd.
She’s beyond inept but she’s hardly on a solo run.
She’s on a major solo run for quite a while now.
I’d say she’s quite pleased to go back to the HoC and, pointing out that they voted not to leave without a deal, argue the EU said it’s this or nothing so they need to accept it. An extension to May 23rd might not have put her in that position.
We’re a long way from the “Give us a deal or be crushed” days of Theresa May.
So what supplementary documents did she and Juncker agree in Strasbourg? Documents, not ‘document’.
Has Varadkar seen those? And does he agree with them?
Here’s the correspondence between Juncker and Tusk on the issue. It looks like Leo is in the loop anyway.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/letter_president_juncker_to_president_tusk.pdf
Yours ever nebulous,
Theresa.
Brilliant, I’d forgotten that!
How can the agreement be different in substance but not wording?! As said above, this is an absolute begging letter akin to weaselling out of punishment in school.
Your ever,
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Please can we have our beloved tax exclusion for the City of London and it’s blood money.
This crew genuinely believe that the world spins around them. Thier arrogance is only matched by thier inability to actually agree anything among themselves.
well it’s frying pan time now @SOQ…
“Breaking: Donald Tusk says a short extension of A50 would be possible but conditional on a positive vote on the WA in the HoC next week. The question remains open as to the duration of the extension: June 30 has its merits but poses legal and political challenges”
to me that says you can have that short extension to tidy up your desk after getting your agreement thru or you can fupp off & sort the mess out by yourself.
I would love to see EU elections in the UK, Farage is banking on it and despite his nationalistic bluster, he is a shrewd operator who knows how to read a situation.
And, if it results in a bunch of EU sceptics being voted in then that is where they should be because not everything remain say is right and not everything leave say is wrong.