Up to 15 British ministers may vote to stop UK from leaving EU on March 29: Bloomberg

 

FILE PHOTO: British and EU flags flutter outside the Houses of Parliament during a pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit demonstration, ahead of a vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, in London, Britain, January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

 

(Reuters) - As many as 15 British government ministers may vote to stop the United Kingdom leaving the European Union on March 29 in the event that no Brexit deal has been agreed, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

 

The ministers opposing a no-deal Brexit are considering challenging British Prime Minister Theresa May to fire them if they vote against her in parliament next week, the report said https://bloom.bg/2SQNnf4.

 

They want a delay to Brexit if there is no agreement in place, according to Bloomberg.

 

Britain is due to leave EU on March 29.

 

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru, Editing by William Maclean)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-02-21

Good for them. It's about time people stood up to the ERG and DUP zealots that are pushing the UK off a cliff.

Bloody hell, UK. You need a mini Cabinet revolt merely to stop yourselves from committing suicide?

 

I have made this comment before and will repeat it now...

 

Never before have I seen a country so utterly determined to shoot itself in the crotch.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Bloody hell, UK. You need a mini Cabinet revolt merely to stop yourselves from committing suicide?

 

I have made this comment before and will repeat it now...

 

Never before have I seen a country so utterly determined to shoot itself in the crotch.

 

 

 

but its our country and i assume our crotch we are shooting, The EU has had its day all empires come to an end. its that time

 

all non Brits can have an opinion but it doesn't count. I don't poke my nose in to  the comedy show going on in the USA

59 minutes ago, steve187 said:

but its our country and i assume our crotch we are shooting, The EU has had its day all empires come to an end. its that time

 

all non Brits can have an opinion but it doesn't count. I don't poke my nose in to  the comedy show going on in the USA

Where is it 'our' country, what personal influence do you have? a cross on a bit of paper every 5 years and a letter to the BBC perhaps. The establishment rules and they don't sit in parliament, you are shafted every day you get up to go to work to travel on an expensive out of date late railway thankful that you aren't ill and have to wait months for a referral to a specialist who will take months to get you into hospital while being told to save more for your retirement when you can barely afford your living expenses.

8 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

Where is it 'our' country, what personal influence do you have? a cross on a bit of paper every 5 years and a letter to the BBC perhaps. The establishment rules and they don't sit in parliament, you are shafted every day you get up to go to work to travel on an expensive out of date late railway thankful that you aren't ill and have to wait months for a referral to a specialist who will take months to get you into hospital while being told to save more for your retirement when you can barely afford your living expenses.

you seem disillusioned with the UK, maybe due the changes brought about by being in a federation of Europe, full of people with differing view, beliefs, habits, way of life, weights and measures, and manners to us and ours

6 minutes ago, steve187 said:

a federation of Europe, full of people with differing view, beliefs, habits, way of life, weights and measures, and manners 

How civilized! 

 

Apart from the kg in your pocket, social customs and mores across the European continent are remarkably similar.

 

Nasty Brits have now brought  about the collapse of EU immigration; we are now to be flooded by peoples from god knows where with radically different customs and social mores who will never integrate. Great idea! Count me out!

Oops!

2 minutes ago, Grouse said:

How civilized! 

but true

15 minutes ago, steve187 said:

you seem disillusioned with the UK, maybe due the changes brought about by being in a federation of Europe, full of people with differing view, beliefs, habits, way of life, weights and measures, and manners to us and ours

"weights and measures". Come back pounds, shillings and pence should be on every Brexiteer banner.

1 hour ago, steve187 said:

all non Brits can have an opinion but it doesn't count. 

I am non Brit, so my opinion doesn't count, but I speak as a European guy

I am happy to belong to EU and I think that to be a sort of federation is good, let's no be alone against big countries like USA and China

you think that Britain is strong enough to be alone ? we are in 2019 , British empire is finished long time ago 

Just now, Aforek said:

I am non Brit, so my opinion doesn't count, but I speak as a European guy

I am happy to belong to EU and I think that to be a sort of federation is good, let's no be alone against big countries like USA and China

you think that Britain is strong enough to be alone ? we are in 2019 , British empire is finished long time ago 

At least when you are alone you can trust the person you are with.  Most of the time!

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

Where is it 'our' country, what personal influence do you have? a cross on a bit of paper every 5 years and a letter to the BBC perhaps. The establishment rules and they don't sit in parliament, you are shafted every day you get up to go to work to travel on an expensive out of date late railway thankful that you aren't ill and have to wait months for a referral to a specialist who will take months to get you into hospital while being told to save more for your retirement when you can barely afford your living expenses.

I agree, BUT the electorate were finally given a referendum on whether to stay/leave the eu, and that their decision would be enacted.

 

They voted leave.

 

Which makes it even more of a 'spit in the eye' to the electorate when their MPs then do their best to bypass the referendum result....

1 hour ago, dick dasterdly said:

I agree, BUT the electorate were finally given a referendum on whether to stay/leave the eu, and that their decision would be enacted.

 

They voted leave.

 

Which makes it even more of a 'spit in the eye' to the electorate when their MPs then do their best to bypass the referendum result....

It’s not a spit in everyone of the electorate’s eye.

 

 

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s not a spit in everyone of the electorate’s eye.

 

 

I disagree.

 

When the electorate are given a referendum and told that the vote will be enacted - it has to be a 'spit in the eye' for everyone in the electorate when their MPs then do everything in their power to bypass the referendum result!

 

Of course many who disagree with the referendum result will argue otherwise, but IMO it is making it very clear to ALL the electorate that the govt. and MPs only meant it as a 'sop' to the electorate (for their own, political reasons....) - and are desperately trying to back-track - as the vote didn't go their way.

2 hours ago, Grouse said:

Nasty Brits have now brought  about the collapse of EU immigration; we are now to be flooded by peoples from god knows where with radically different customs and social mores who will never integrate. Great idea! Count me out!

You can always burn your passport and take one of the others you have previously mentioned. Brit bashing again.

 

The EU have allowed migrants from many places without documentation since 2014. The UK have nothing to do with it. It was Merkel and her let them all in policy that flooded Europe. The EU countries are struggling with it and rightly so are questioning that.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34190359

 

 

Sweden, Germany, Italy, Norway and Austria to name a few.

 

https://qz.com/1314745/immigration-in-germany-angela-merkel-struggles-to-convince-the-eu-to-follow-her-lead/

 

I would say the UK and other EU countries are already flooded with radically different customs and views who just won't and want to, assimilate.

 

Luckily the good people of the UK have saw that and want out of the EU. You should be praising the Brits not bashing them

4 hours ago, steve187 said:

The EU has had its day all empires come to an end. its that time

 

 

 

Precisely the message that the "Brexiteer" mentality has been unable to absorb.

 

"It's all coming back" according to them.

 

It's the attitude that usually encourages the decline of the rump of old empires, not their revival.

 

Each time it is propounded it is because......."we're different, we're special".

 

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.^"

 

Ozymandias, Percy Shelley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

37 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:

I disagree.

 

When the electorate are given a referendum and told that the vote will be enacted - it has to be a 'spit in the eye' for everyone in the electorate when their MPs then do everything in their power to bypass the referendum result!

 

Of course many who disagree with the referendum result will argue otherwise, but IMO it is making it very clear to ALL the electorate that the govt. and MPs only meant it as a 'sop' to the electorate (for their own, political reasons....) - and are desperately trying to back-track - as the vote didn't go their way.

 

Yep.

 

It was all a grotesque mistake......courtesy of the now wilderness-dwelling David Cameron.

 

The work of fixing it doing nobody any good.

 

It continues to keep the vultures of America and China circling in hungry anticipation.

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, steve187 said:

but its our country and i assume our crotch we are shooting, The EU has had its day all empires come to an end. its that time

 

all non Brits can have an opinion but it doesn't count. I don't poke my nose in to  the comedy show going on in the USA

The EU will still be there when Scotland and a reunited Ireland are no longer part of the UK. When you voted for Brexit what you were really doing is driving the last nail in the coffin of Great Britain. 

 

54 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:

I disagree.

 

When the electorate are given a referendum and told that the vote will be enacted - it has to be a 'spit in the eye' for everyone in the electorate when their MPs then do everything in their power to bypass the referendum result!

 

Of course many who disagree with the referendum result will argue otherwise, but IMO it is making it very clear to ALL the electorate that the govt. and MPs only meant it as a 'sop' to the electorate (for their own, political reasons....) - and are desperately trying to back-track - as the vote didn't go their way.

I think you are catching on.

 

The referendum was an attempt by Cameron to prevent a growing rift within the Tory party.

 

Pitty so many took it as an opportunity to inflict self harm on the nation.

3 hours ago, SheungWan said:

"weights and measures". Come back pounds, shillings and pence should be on every Brexiteer banner.

And polio ... and those little charity statues of a little boy wearing a clamp around his leg. And cloth caps and forelocks, so we can doff and tug them when passing our betters, the Rees Mogg’s and Boris Johnson’s of this world.

 

Back to the good old days.

 

 

 

17 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

And polio ... and those little charity statues of a little boy wearing a clamp around his leg. And cloth caps and forelocks, so we can doff and tug them when passing our betters, the Rees Mogg’s and Boris Johnson’s of this world.

 

Back to the good old days.

 

 

 

 

looking forward to half pints and nips measured in 1/6 gills and 2/6 gills

 

26 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

The EU will still be there when Scotland and a reunited Ireland are no longer part of the UK. When you voted for Brexit what you were really doing is driving the last nail in the coffin of Great Britain. 

 

Looks like we're all doomed then.

The rioting in France will be nothing like the rioting if the UK does not leave the EU after a democratic vote.

3 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

The rioting in France will be nothing like the rioting if the UK does not leave the EU after a democratic vote.

Bring it on. Tea rooms around the UK getting smashed up, and Zimmer frames going through Waitrose’s window. The counter demonstrations, of people sick of these bulllying morons, will be even larger.

It's important in life to learn how to win gracefully and how to lose gracefully, remoaners please note. You lost. Get over it.

4 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

It's important in life to learn how to win gracefully and how to lose gracefully, remoaners please note. You lost. Get over it.

And you're in the process of losing now. 

 

Take your own advice.

2 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

looking forward to half pints and nips measured in 1/6 gills and 2/6 gills

 

Now it comes out; Brexit was about imposing ridiculous small English measures on the rest of us.

 

Sixth of a gill? Seriously?  Does your pub have pipettes instead of optics?

14 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

It's important in life to learn how to win gracefully and how to lose gracefully, remoaners please note. You lost. Get over it.

And there was me thinking this is about doing what is best for the country. But apparently it is about being a good sport.

    15 More who should just quit, if they don't like democracy, they should not be there at all.