Looks like the parliament doesn't want out the "soft" way. My understanding is the UK could either commit economic suicide and do a hard Brexit, or just make Brexit go away like the vote never happened. Any Brits on here have more insight?
Theresa May took about as bad a beating as you can without bringing the government down. Have to wait a few more days on that. The Tories are trying to figure out how to get rid of her without agreeing to a vote of no-confidence which would lead a new government but open up the possibility/probability that Corbyn the Leftie would be Prime Minister. The French- as part of the EU- are proposing fiddling around with Article 50 and amending that. That is the article governs the timing of steps in leaving the EU because the Brits are on a hard schedule to exit March 29, with or without an agreement. If they can amend Article 50 so that it provides more time between notice and exit, then they can FIDDLE AND DIDDLE FOR SOME MORE. Need I do my quarterly rant about how the lefties try to make it look like the U.S. is the only one with problems: - the UK - all flucked up. - France- this weekend will be the tenth weekend of protests and riots. - Germany- Angela's chicken's have come to roost on the migrants and she announced that she will not run for election again. - Spain, Italy, Greece: if you sneeze their economies and governments will collapse. Other than that. Everything is fine.
Heh. as discussed above, just saw that Theresa May is taking the road of dicking around with Article 50. Frigging Brits invented parliamentary manuevers so they know how to drag things out bigtime. She is playing both the British parliament and the European parliament at the same time if she goes that route. That's gotta be heaven for a Brit pol. A two-fer. Then they will add in a few rounds of no-confidence votes and procedures just to keep things peppy. Meanwhile, that March 29 deadline is ticking.