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May determined to stick to her Brexit timetable as she publishes Article 50 bill
MPs will get their first chance to debate the Article 50 bill next Wednesday.
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THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT has published a draft law that would authorise Prime Minister Theresa May to begin the procedure for leaving the European Union in an important milestone towards Brexit.
“The British people have made the decision to leave the EU… so today we have introduced a bill in parliament which will allow us to formally trigger Article 50 by the end of March,” said Brexit minister David Davis.
The two clause “European Union Notification of Withdrawal Bill” asks parliament to give May authority to “notify, under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the EU.”
The government said MPs would get their first chance to debate it on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
The government is being forced to go to parliament following a landmark Supreme Court ruling this week that rejected its argument that executive powers allowed it to proceed without prior approval.
Brexit minister David Davis speaking in the House of Commons Frank Vincini PA Wire
Frank Vincini PA Wire
Conservative Prime Minister May has a small majority in the House of Commons and is expected to get the go-ahead from MPs, although opposition parties have said they plan put forward amendments which could slow it down.
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House of Commons leader David Lidington told parliament that the bill’s third and final reading in the House of Commons would be on February 8.
The bill’s progress in the House of Lords, the upper chamber, is less certain as the government has no majority there and no control over the timing.
If approved by the House of Lords, the bill would then have to be signed off by Queen Elizabeth II before May can trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty — the formal process for leaving the bloc.
Theresa May had been invited to address the Dáil, with Brexit high on the planned agenda, but refused the offer.
The move was strongly criticised by former deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
So, PM rushes to be photographed with Trump and Erdogan but won’t find time to speak to Irish Dail. Has No.10 completely lost the plot?
Strange that they have beaten financial forecasts again today with better than expected growth, but you keep believing that which is fed to you by all the vested interests of the EU and Irish political class.
Deise – but we were told business would leave and an instant emergency budget blah blah blah…… Yet they keep outperforming all other leading economies and especially the EU.
@paul, there have been announcements by several banks that they are moving thousands of jobs to Paris and other EU based financial centres. Car manufacturers continue to assess the situation also. As mentioned above, Brexit hasn’t happened and, yes, there are opportunities as well as challenges which could yet prove the gloomy predictions wrong but it’s much to early for gloating given that a) it hasn’t yet happened, b) it’s a process and not an event. The real measure will be seen over the next 5-10 years.
@Paul Fahey: They keep outperforming due to having control of their own currency, dear boy. Nothing to do with the EU at large. And, btw, last summer I was able to buy 3k worth of good from the UK for a fraction of the coat it was one year prior. Why? Because that currency devalued like crazy.
UK businesses will suffer no matter what way you dress it up.
@Paul Fahey: Dont believe everything you are “told” thats what got the UK in this mess in the first place! and yes, there are businesses leaving only for Ms Mayhems secretive deal with Toyota – that would be the first big casualty. Airbus which employs 6000 in the UK need free movement of their product within the EU. Not to mention any other manufacturing facility in the UK.
Snuffles – so having control over your currency is a good thing, but the EU tell us that it is not and the Euro is the currency of choice, you seem to be arguing my point for me there “dear boy”. The UK are also outperforming all other G8 nations, who also have control of their an currency, odd that.
Is the EU outperforming anyone in the growth stakes?
Tiny – they are all saying MAY, there is nothing definitive there at all, now please back up your earlier premise that thousands and thousands of jobs are leaving the U.K, not may leave the U.K. These are the same people who said they would leave immediately, it is called corporate posturing. These are also the same people who said the UK would immediately fall off a financial cliff and that is just not happening.
@Paul: __ It’s unfortunate that they won’t be able to cut themselves free from the ones really responsible for their problems i.e. the British Government :p
Snuffles – expected is the operative word there, much like many if the job announcements that never come on line. Further, 150 jobs? Not exactly the thousands and thousands you have been talking about. Also, these 150 jobs will ONLY come on line IF the UK loses access to the EU trading bloc, which is by no means certain. Now do you have anything credible and definite?
Tony – I assume now your u have read the reports from Barclays who have very much downplayed any moves to Dublin and have reiterated London is the centre of their business and will continue to be, they also plan expansion.
Funny that you should mention experts, but you are the same man who lambasts all the elites whilst defending SF, but here you are using Davis and bankers to further your argument, make your mind up man.
@paul, I think you’ve mixed me up with someone else. If you can find a single post of me ever “lambasting elites” or defending SF you get a prize. Either you’re mixing me up or you’re intentionally misrepresenting. As for Barclays, I didn’t specify which banks and I don’t think I’ve singled out Barclays. That would be a stupid move when so many financial institutions have expressed that they will likely be moving some of their business due to brexit. Like I said in my other post, there is also little point in you continuing to try to defend a process that we have no idea as yet of many specific effects.
MPs opposed to Brexit should veto it.. They shouldn’t listen to the claims that they are anti-democratic or they are going against the will of the people.. it’s simply, if the Bill doesn’t contain everything promised to the people, and it won’t, then voting against it is defending the will of the people..
Damocles – and that is the conundrum for Labour. If they vote against this they are committing political suicide in constituencies throughout the north of England, which is their only remaining heartland. They have lost Scotland and they cannot afford to lose the north, self preservation will prevail.
@Stephen Duffy: __ Any politician trying to veto it will have their photo on the front of the Mail and Express, and those rags and others will be calling for a public hanging of said politicians on the grounds of treason.
The pre-brexit Northern Ireland Secretary stated:
“I think that the land border we share with Ireland can be as free-flowing after a Brexit vote as it is today”
Theresa Villiers, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 17 April 2016
So that means a hard border? Despite the fact Theresa May has been quite clear the UK will not impose physical borders in Ireland, odd that. Now, perhaps the EU will, but that was not promised by the UK politicians.
@Paul Fahey: __ She has no say in EU borders, despite what she thinks. All she has is a superiority complex, which is part and parcel of being a Tory :p
Maybe a hard border, or maybe a soft border for immigration and a return to a customs border like in the bad old days, with quotas on certain goods, import/export duties and inconvenience for people who have to cross that border.
Certainly not what was stated by the UK Government Secretary of State.
UK leaving the Single Market leaves a lot of headaches for the dairy sector in Northern Ireland and the likes of Moy Park, who sell much of their product in the Republic.
Paul some would have voted believing they were voting for the health service to get an extra £350m a week.. they were even promised continued access to the single market and both sides now say this won’t happen..
@Paul Fahey: No way she can sail through these waters and survive. Britain is too split on this issue, the general population, the political establishment , and last but not least, businesses big and small.
She won’t last, and neither will the following PM. The UK is destined for political upheaval for at least 10 years. They will be in a state of stasis and inertia until enough of the older voters who opted for Brexit, die off.
There’s no way the UK will follow through on a Brexit. May will be one of many to fall on their sword.
@Paul Fahey: So you think offering a bet to a poster, who clearly said “IF” he was a betting man. on a comment section of an online news publication somehow proves your point?
Snuffles – dear boy as you say, I dont hide behind an anonymous profile, I am very open so should be no issue. I often wonder why people hide whilst posting opinion, if you support and believe what you say then stand over them. Hot head? You dont make me angry at all, more sympathetic to be honest.
Because of course BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, VW are all going to gladly let one of their biggest revenue generators pass to appease the EU political class. Anyway Tesla is the future before you slate US cars.
50.3. The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the
withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in paragraph 2, unless
the European Council, in agreement with the Member State concerned, unanimously decides to extend
this period.
How many civil servants and politicians does it take to understand that Brexit means out of ALL EU Treaties, including the single market, unless the entire European Council unanimously extends the deadline? There is no “soft Brexit”. There can only be an agreement to gain some sort of access to the single market, on terms which do not encourage all the other EU States to leave.
The only access to retain favourable customs tariffs is to have reached a deal within 2 years of triggering Article 50 or be given an extension by all of the other EU States. If any one Member State exercises a veto, then it is back to WTO tariffs and regulations :-)
I’d be surprised if EU didn’t forewarn Nations., “Now if you are in you stay in. No bailing if things do not look so prosperous. That may be an issue.”
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