UK parliament approves Brexit law forcing May to consult on delay

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UK parliament approves Brexit law forcing May to consult on delay

By William James

 

FILE PHOTO: Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray demonstrates outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, April 3, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament approved legislation on Monday that gives lawmakers the power to scrutinise and even change Prime Minister Theresa May's request that the European Union agree to delay Brexit until June 30.

 

May has already asked Brussels to extend Britain's EU membership to allow talks with the opposition Labour Party in search of different exit plan - a last-ditch attempt to keep control after parliament rejected her Brexit deal three times.

 

But lawmakers want additional legal guarantees against a "no-deal" exit happening on April 12 - the current exit day - and have crafted a law forcing ministers to consult with parliament on Tuesday before May goes to Brussels.

 

"Both houses of parliament have tonight strongly made clear their view that a no deal would be deeply damaging to jobs, manufacturing and security of our country," said lawmaker Yvette Cooper, one of those responsible for proposing the legislation.

 

The bill gives lawmakers the chance to make legally binding changes to May's requested departure date during a debate scheduled to last 90 minutes on Tuesday. The prime minister would retain some freedom to agree a different date with the EU.

 

May is due to travel to Paris and Berlin on Tuesday to press her request for a short delay, before it is formally discussed by EU leaders at a special summit on Wednesday.

 

The bill passed through the Commons by a single vote last week and was then approved with minor changes in the House of Lords, an unelected body whose role is to refine and scrutinise legislation, which the Commons then had to sign off on.

 

The passage of the bill represents a significant blow to May's authority, overturning the long-standing convention that the government has sole control of the agenda in parliament, allowing it to control what laws are passed.

 

It also creates another flashpoint in a deeply divided body of lawmakers that could undermine May's attempts to persuade Brussels she can get parliament to back a Brexit deal if the EU gives her more time.

 

The government had warned that the legislation was poorly drafted, rushed through parliament and set a dangerous constitutional precedent. Pro-Brexit lawmakers also fiercely opposed the bill.

 

"(It) is like tossing a hand grenade into our constitutional arrangements," said eurosceptic Conservative lawmaker Bill Cash.

 

(Reporting by William James; Editing by Giles Elgood, Frances Kerry and Sonya Hepinstall)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-04-09

[Laughing Gravy]

Theresa May needs to go. She is an absolute disgrace. The sooner the better.

Call a GE and lets these MPO's stand up and say what they are about and give the people the choice to select them or show them the door. That's the sensible and democratic thing.

 

We have already had a referendum before the remainers start calling for another and we haven't even enacted upon that one.

[Justin Side]

A long delay followed by revoke is the only sensible option now.

[DoctorG]

Maybe the EU will just say no to a further delay and we will be officially out by the week-end.

[Chomper Higgot]

The Financial Times, that bastion of socialism, liberalism and general leftyism, is expressing the view that the Tory response to Brexit has resulted in moderates leaving the party that has now become ‘the home of the old and the angry’.

 

Comments here on TVF would suggest the FT are correct in this observation.

 

[Loiner]

May was going to ask for an extension anyway. This charade is another one by Remainers in both houses, to try and usurp our democracy and force May’s surrender document on us or no exit.
No extension and No Deal is the best option now.


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[Laughing Gravy]

12 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The Financial Times, that bastion of socialism, liberalism and general leftyism, is expressing the view that the Tory response to Brexit has resulted in moderates leaving the party that has now become ‘the home of the old and the angry’.

 

Comments here on TVF would suggest the FT are correct in this observation.

 

The Financial Times is a remain supporting paper Chomps, you do know that. Are you saying remainers are all socialist, liberals and lefties? Can I throw in Tree Huggers too.????

[vogie]

15 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The Financial Times, that bastion of socialism, liberalism and general leftyism, is expressing the view that the Tory response to Brexit has resulted in moderates leaving the party that has now become ‘the home of the old and the angry’.

 

Comments here on TVF would suggest the FT are correct in this observation.

 

Can you provide a link to this story please?

[malagateddy]

Can you provide a link to this story please?

Well now c/h..do you want a list of young BREXITEERS from Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
They happen to be the kids of friends of mine back home!!
Let me know if you want their names and email adds!!!!!

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[Chomper Higgot]

3 minutes ago, vogie said:

Can you provide a link to this story please?

I tried to Vogie but it’s behind a pay wall and blocked for sharing.

 

If you care to search it out the heading is ‘Conservatives will pay a heavy price for weaponising Brexit’.

[Chomper Higgot]

5 minutes ago, malagateddy said:

Well now c/h..do you want a list of young BREXITEERS from Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
They happen to be the kids of friends of mine back home!!
Let me know if you want their names and email adds!!!!!

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The young Remainers I know are too busy working, studying and otherwise getting on with life to have time to join me in an online pishing contest.

 

It’s been a while since I was in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, so I’ll take your word for it that young people there have nothing better to do than prop you up in internet debates.

[vogie]

Just now, Chomper Higgot said:

I tried to Vogie but it’s behind a pay wall and blocked for sharing.

 

If you care to search it out the heading is ‘Conservatives will pay a heavy price for weaponising Brexit’.

I have no doubt the Cons will pay a heavy price, but it will be for not delivering on their manifesto promises that we will leave the EU. Just as the same as The Independant is reporting that a 150,000 Labour Party members supporters have deserted Labour over Jeremy Corbyns handling of Brexit, let us all be rational for once and admit that both parties have not delivered on their promises.

[malagateddy]

No..you are oh so wrong..many of them have well paying careers in different fields..but they see the future of their country..the UK as OUTSIDE the eu.
Ps..delighted to tell you that most of them are now...REGISTERED SUPPORTERS OF THE BREXIT PARTY!!!

The young Remainers I know are too busy working, studying and otherwise getting on with life to have time to join me in an online pishing contest.
 
It’s been a while since I was in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, so I’ll take your word for it that young people there have nothing better to do than prop you up in internet debates.

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[Laughing Gravy]

2 minutes ago, vogie said:

I have no doubt the Cons will pay a heavy price, but it will be for not delivering on their manifesto promises that we will leave the EU. Just as the same as The Independant is reporting that a 150,000 Labour Party members supporters have deserted Labour over Jeremy Corbyns handling of Brexit, let us all be rational for once and admit that both parties have not delivered on their promises.

The Times supports your theory and I agree totally with you. This is most of the article.

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/tories-will-suffer-at-local-polls-if-brexit-still-hasn-t-happened-5z5276gkd

 

The Conservatives’ campaign for next next month’s local elections will be hampered if Brexit has not been completed, a polling expert has warned.

Lord Hayward, a Conservative peer and psephologist, said that his party was set to lose a large number of councillors at the May 2 poll, and that the result would be even worse without a Brexit deal.

More than 8,000 seats are up for election in 51 English councils — 4,628 of them Conservative. “This is Tory territory,” Lord Hayward said. “The local elections will be testing Toryland.”

As Mrs May prepares to ask the EU for another Brexit delay, Lord Hayward said that whether Brexit was settled by election day would have a significant impact on the result. “There is a Brexit benefit to the government if there is a deal,” he said.

“The corollary of that is that there is a disbenefit, a deficit, a penalty to the Tory party [if there is not a deal]. Talk to any MP and they will say exactly the same thing. They want a deal so they can go out on the doorstep and say we’ve got a deal. But if there isn’t a deal, the Tories have a disadvantage. There are large numbers of people who just want it over with.”

[Jip99]

Just now, vogie said:

I have no doubt the Cons will pay a heavy price, but it will be for not delivering on their manifesto promises that we will leave the EU. Just as the same as The Independant is reporting that a 150,000 Labour Party members supporters have deserted Labour over Jeremy Corbyns handling of Brexit, let us all be rational for once and admit that both parties have not delivered on their promises.

 

 

Those votes have to go somewhere and there is a huge vacuum waiting to suck up the disenfranchised Tory and Labour voters.

 

UKIP sucked up 4m in 2015.

 

I have always voted Conservative but I will think long and hard next time. The one redeeming feature for the Tory party is that my sitting MP has done a good job and she has voted consistently on Brexit.

 

I could not countenance voted for Labour with Corbyn at the helm - so would I consider voting UKIP ?

 

Yes. I would consider it.

[Chomper Higgot]

9 minutes ago, malagateddy said:

No..you are oh so wrong..many of them have well paying careers in different fields..but they see the future of their country..the UK as OUTSIDE the eu.
Ps..delighted to tell you that most of them are now...REGISTERED SUPPORTERS OF THE BREXIT PARTY!!!

 

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Or so you tell us.

[soalbundy]

43 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

Maybe the EU will just say no to a further delay and we will be officially out by the week-end.

Why should they say no ? they rather like the can kicking because they know where the can will stop rolling.

[soalbundy]

Just now, Chomper Higgot said:

Or so you tell us.

It must be true, he read it in the Daily Express.

[AGareth2]

Go on Macron, Veto!

[blazes]

1 hour ago, DoctorG said:

Maybe the EU will just say no to a further delay and we will be officially out by the week-end.

That will be good....a no-deal deal that would NOT bring about the apocalypse (as the lying Remainers maintained three years ago and still do today).

 

Rule Britannia.

[SheungWan]

4 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

Go on Macron, Veto!

Danny DeVito.

[SheungWan]

Just now, blazes said:

That will be good....a no-deal deal that would NOT bring about the apocalypse (as the lying Remainers maintained three years ago and still do today).

Rule Britannia.

Oh Look! Inspiration from the back of an old Penny!

[SheungWan]

2 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Theresa May needs to go. She is an absolute disgrace. The sooner the better.

Call a GE and lets these MPO's stand up and say what they are about and give the people the choice to select them or show them the door. That's the sensible and democratic thing.

We have already had a referendum before the remainers start calling for another and we haven't even enacted upon that one.

Brexiteers trying to do "sensible". 

[vogie]

1 minute ago, SheungWan said:

Oh Look! Inspiration from the back of an old Penny!

Wrong, the robbers grave.

[SheungWan]

1 hour ago, DoctorG said:

Maybe the EU will just say no to a further delay and we will be officially out by the week-end.

March 29 target part 2.

[SheungWan]

56 minutes ago, Loiner said:

May was going to ask for an extension anyway. This charade is another one by Remainers in both houses, to try and usurp our democracy and force May’s surrender document on us or no exit.
No extension and No Deal is the best option now.

Brexiteers blowing up, one by one.

[SheungWan]

31 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

Those votes have to go somewhere and there is a huge vacuum waiting to suck up the disenfranchised Tory and Labour voters.

UKIP sucked up 4m in 2015.

I have always voted Conservative but I will think long and hard next time. The one redeeming feature for the Tory party is that my sitting MP has done a good job and she has voted consistently on Brexit.

I could not countenance voted for Labour with Corbyn at the helm - so would I consider voting UKIP ?

Yes. I would consider it.

Brexiteer sucking.

[malagateddy]

Or pehaps the Brexit Party??[emoji6]

 
 
Those votes have to go somewhere and there is a huge vacuum waiting to suck up the disenfranchised Tory and Labour voters.
 
UKIP sucked up 4m in 2015.
 
I have always voted Conservative but I will think long and hard next time. The one redeeming feature for the Tory party is that my sitting MP has done a good job and she has voted consistently on Brexit.
 
I could not countenance voted for Labour with Corbyn at the helm - so would I consider voting UKIP ?
 
Yes. I would consider it.

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[malagateddy]

C/h..I tell the TRUTH..you know next to nothing about me..I could give you Chapter and Verse re my life but it is none of your business.
Just a pity that you do not know some of the Chaiyaphum Province expats..quite a few would give you a good character reference re myself.

Or so you tell us.

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[malagateddy]

Wrong..with riots in france..france and germany teetering towards recession..italy almost a basket case the same as greece..massive disgraceful unemployment in various eu countries..IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE AUTOCRATIC CORRUPT EU NEED BRITISH TAXPAYERS MONEY to " feed " the eu subsidy junkie member states!!!

Why should they say no ? they rather like the can kicking because they know where the can will stop rolling.

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