Delay in Britain leaving EU is not about me, UK's May says

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves church, as Brexit turmoil continues, in Sonning, Britain, May 5, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday that the delay in Britain leaving the European Union was not an issue related to her leadership.

 

Told by Andrea Jenkyns, a lawmaker from her Conservative Party, that she had failed on Brexit and it was time to let someone new lead the party May responded: "Actually this is not an issue about me".

 

"If it were an issue about me and how I vote, we would already have left the European Union," said May, whose Brexit deal has been rejected three times by parliament.

 

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Elisabeth O'Leary)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-05-09

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

"If it were an issue about me and how I vote, we would already have left the European Union,"

Who says that she's not a Brexiteer? Classic Brexiteer line that's been posted many times on this forum. Just because they voted to leave the EU doesn't mean that they caused the problem. Yes, right.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

"If it were an issue about me and how I vote, we would already have left the European Union," said May, whose Brexit deal has been rejected three times by parliament.

Can't help thinking, if she'd really wanted to leave, we'd already be out.

Her willingness to 'deal' was always a major block to leaving.

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by BritManToo

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Can't help thinking, if she'd really wanted to leave, we'd already be out.

Her willingness to 'deal' was always a major block to leaving.

Parliament decides, not the PM. 

1 minute ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

Parliament decides, not the PM. 

That's just not true, after Britain declared to leave, the date was set in stone, and prevarication by the PM would have forced an exit on 29th March 2019 with no further input from parliament.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

That's just not true, after Britain declared to leave, the date was set in stone, and prevarication by the PM would have forced an exit on 29th March 2019 with no further input from parliament.

Parliament decided against that. It decided against leaving without a deal. 

She was never strong enough in negotiations with the Brussels Mafia......

Of course it's about May. She negotiated the pathetic "deal" that everyone hated and then when it failed to get the numbers she kicked the can down the road. 

 

She said over 100 times we'd leave on 29th March. She simply cannot take responsibility for the failure of what she thought was a cunning plan to keep us locked in.

 

It's time to resign and let a Leaver take over as PM, or call a General Election and let the Brexit Party take over.

 

 

It has become all about this dishonest cow.

4 hours ago, Spidey said:

Who says that she's not a Brexiteer? Classic Brexiteer line that's been posted many times on this forum. Just because they voted to leave the EU doesn't mean that they caused the problem. Yes, right.

Unclear. What are you trying to say ?

3 hours ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

Parliament decides, not the PM. 

Wrong. This was a referendum, not an election.

She lies and lies and lies. The vicar's daughter, my arse.

11 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Wrong. This was a referendum, not an election.

Doesn’t change what I said: parliament decides. 

3 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

She was never strong enough in negotiations with the Brussels Mafia......

Stop it, she was part of your "mafia" but failed in getting the better part of the deal. Karma

 

1 hour ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

Doesn’t change what I said: parliament decides. 

How did parliament get to change the wish of the people to leave the EU, deal was a after thought that has left them with shit on their faces.

11 minutes ago, Wullie Mercer said:

How did parliament get to change the wish of the people to leave the EU, deal was a after thought that has left them with shit on their faces.

Parliament doesn’t change the wish of the people. Parliament just makes decisions. Not all people like those decisions and might wish differently. That’s how things work and always have. 

19 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

Parliament doesn’t change the wish of the people. Parliament just makes decisions. Not all people like those decisions and might wish differently. That’s how things work and always have. 

Parliament enacted article 50, meaning we left on 29 March with or without a deal. 

 

Parliament subsequently conniving to stop Brexit will fail. They will pay for their duplicity with their seats, and some of them with their careers. This is just another temporary delay which harms the country. Brexit will happen whether it's this year or in 3 years.  There is no way back from this, it's gone too far and it must and will happen. Democracy will prevail. The sooner Remainiacs accept it, the better for everyone.

36 minutes ago, Wullie Mercer said:

How did parliament get to change the wish of the people to leave the EU, deal was a after thought that has left them with shit on their faces.

Because it was just a wish not a command 

54 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Parliament enacted article 50, meaning we left on 29 March with or without a deal. 

No, it doesn’t mean that you left. Your EU membership is a bilateral agreement in international law. It cannot be terminated or changed unilaterally through UK law. That would totally defeat the purpose of such contract. 

 

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Parliament subsequently conniving to stop Brexit will fail.

Parliament is sovereign. If parliament wants to stop Brexit, I’m afraid it won’t fail. 

 

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They will pay for their duplicity with their seats, and some of them with their careers.

It the electorate wants that, sure. 

 

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This is just another temporary delay which harms the country. Brexit will happen whether it's this year or in 3 years.  There is no way back from this, it's gone too far and it must and will happen. Democracy will prevail. The sooner Remainiacs accept it, the better for everyone.

Keep telling yourself that, but do you actually believe it? 

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by welovesundaysatspace

2 hours ago, sawadee1947 said:

Stop it, she was part of your "mafia" but failed in getting the better part of the deal. Karma

 

She was and is a remainer, who has collaborated with Merkel and the EU to produce this dubious "deal". 

Just now, nauseus said:

She was and is a remainer, who has collaborated with Merkel and the EU to produce this dubious "deal". 

 

 

I still don't want to believe that such a collaboration was intended  -  but I can see how many would draw that conclusion.

45 minutes ago, nauseus said:

She was and is a remainer, who has collaborated with Merkel and the EU to produce this dubious "deal". 

No it's just she is a xenophobic idiot - her deal is based on what her biases are, nothing more.

11 minutes ago, tebee said:

No it's just she is a xenophobic idiot - her deal is based on what her biases are, nothing more.

How did the x word get in here? You haven't read the WA either have you? 

3 minutes ago, nauseus said:

How did the x word get in here? You haven't read the WA either have you? 

I think you will find exactly 0 percent of remainers support her deal.

 

the wa is necessary to comply with the UK's existing treaty commitments.

 

the x word comes from her hatred of FOM and immigrants in general, she showed at the Home office - hostile environment anybody ?  

10 minutes ago, tebee said:

I think you will find exactly 0 percent of remainers support her deal.

 

the wa is necessary to comply with the UK's existing treaty commitments.

 

the x word comes from her hatred of FOM and immigrants in general, she showed at the Home office - hostile environment anybody ?  

Everything she has ever touched seems to have gone pear-shaped.

1 minute ago, evadgib said:

Everything she has ever touched seems to have gone pear-shaped.

What about her husband's private parts ?????

10 hours ago, webfact said:

"Actually this is not an issue about me".

 

"If it were an issue about me and how I vote, we would already have left the European Union," said May, whose Brexit deal has been rejected three times by parliament.

Actually the issue of NOT Leaving the EU is all about Theresa, assisted by her cabal of Remainer MPs of course. The woman is a damn liar and has repeatedly been shown to be one.

She is the one who delayed the start of Article 50. She didn't allow it to run its' two year course and simply Leave at the end, but she went back for extensions. She was the one who came back with a Surrender Treaty instead of a "Goodbye, We'll Miss You" card. She's the one who has tried three times to foist her deal on a skeptical parliament. She is the one who is still trying to stitch us up as a vassal state. She's the one who would have us on BRINO terms - we wouldn't have actually left!

1 minute ago, geoffbezoz said:

What about her husband's private parts ?????

His Horn-rims would go 'Crack, Crack!' ????

 

11 minutes ago, Loiner said:

Actually the issue of NOT Leaving the EU is all about Theresa, assisted by her cabal of Remainer MPs of course. The woman is a damn liar and has repeatedly been shown to be one.

She is the one who delayed the start of Article 50. She didn't allow it to run its' two year course and simply Leave at the end, but she went back for extensions. She was the one who came back with a Surrender Treaty instead of a "Goodbye, We'll Miss You" card. She's the one who has tried three times to foist her deal on a skeptical parliament. She is the one who is still trying to stitch us up as a vassal state. She's the one who would have us on BRINO terms - we wouldn't have actually left!

you all just have to undergo it until the autumn   nothing they can do to her untill...

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by david555

2 hours ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

No, it doesn’t mean that you left. Your EU membership is a bilateral agreement in international law. It cannot be terminated or changed unilaterally through UK law. That would totally defeat the purpose of such contract. 

 

 

Totally incorrect. We could have left unilaterally on WTO terms on 29 March. We didn't need the EU's agreement for that, it was already in article 50. Only a deal required the EU's agreement and a deal was absolutely not a prerequisite of leaving.

 

Yes I do believe Brexit will happen. The relationship has soured so badly that there is no choice but to leave.  Even the more intelligent Remainers have finally seen how the EU cartel operates and their plans for further integration into a EU superstate complete with a European Army. If article 50 is revoked then the Brexit Party will win by a landslide at the next GE and trigger it again. It would go round in circles and the EU know it.

 

The EU are playing their final hand hoping Parliament agrees to May's treaty. That is the EU's last chance as they'd use it to lock us in via the backstop (which is why they refuse to remove it). Parliament will not agree to that surrender document and we'll leave with no deal, maybe in October, maybe 2020, maybe in 3 years. It will happen. Stamp it.