ok to consult the rubes when you think they will give you the answer you want anyway. What a twat that Cameron was...

I just noticed you forgot to mention the UK, the self styled sixth largest economic power in the world! How would the USA/Canada/Mexico bloc manage without them?

No hand bags.
Part of the metaphor is that it involves posh or little old ladies, not young louts...

You are still quite an afew
even if you are no longer a quiet afew

wheeze cf. Bojo
wiːz
noun
informal*British
a clever or amusing scheme, idea, or trick.
"a new wheeze to help farmers"
synonyms: scheme, plan, idea, tactic, move, stratagem, ploy, gambit, device, manoeuvre, contrivance, expedient;

Which is why any fraud or breaches of election law can't invalidate the A50 process.

Not an advisory one.

Referendum is not a "democratic process"?

Everyone is entitled to their I told you so that you moment

Angry Tory rebels and Labour MPs vowed that they would attempt to force the government to hold a vote.
However, a government source says there would be no vote on a business motion to cancel Tuesday's vote. "We are replacing the business with a new statement but it isn't a motion and therefore isn't voteable," the source said.

The ECJ reached the simplest possible conclusion: agree entirely with Colman's opinion and ignore all those silly people talking about extracting a price or punishing the UK or whatever.

More seriously, this was always the most likely reading.

What is the optimal way to mask a silently crashing economy?

I'd love to hear her class on Auschwitz.

Inequality riots currently crashing the French economy. Sub-optimal.

One way or other, inequality is a part of the human sociality. Always useful when resources are tighter.

Government sets the business schedule. The Commons could react with a no confidence motion. How many Tories would vote for that?

So the misogynous US president and the feminist Canadian premier team up to detain a powerful woman.

Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown...

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I suggest you email the Supreme Court with your opinions just in case they make the wrong decision.

Hazard of handbagging

Assuming Parliament allows her to. Perhaps.

The noise now is that May is pulling out of the vote tomorrow.

Piketty still wants to tackle the right problems with the wrong instruments

Manifesto by progressive Europeans calls for €800bn of levies to tackle inequality, disillusionment, climate change and migration
 The manifesto drawn up by Thomas Piketty and others addresses the inequality and populism sweeping the continent. Photograph: Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images
A group of progressive Europeans led by the economist and author Thomas Piketty has drawn up a bold new blueprint for a fairer Europe to address the division, disenchantment, inequality and rightwing populism sweeping the continent.
The plan, crafted by more than 50 economists, historians and former politicians from half a dozen countries, includes huge levies on multinationals, millionaires and carbon emissions to generate funds to tackle the most urgent issues of the day, including poverty, migration, climate change and the EU's so-called democratic deficit.

All fine up to this point...

At the heart of the manifesto is a call for a European assembly that would have a budget of up to €800bn a year, financed by taxing corporate profits more effectively, as well as income and wealth.
...
The money would be overseen by a new European assembly consisting mostly of national politicians and some MEPs. While the assembly would be in touch with EU institutions, it would sit outside EU treaties and have the final word on spending.

Piketty is recycling his hobby horse of a Eurozone parliamentary assembly... which wasn't a ridiculous idea in itself... but this time round, he doesn't seem to reference the Eurozone at all. Colour me perplexed. What is this Frankenstein parliament for? Other than destroying the EU?

The public are invited to comment and improve the proposals, which the authors said were "not perfect, but ... do have the merit of existing".

I half agree.

Please don't read the list of signatories. Ok, read it, if you need a good laugh.

maximise our impact in Europe

He's interested in the size and shape of the crater?

No, it's Black Mirror the pigf*cker's been watching too much of

Problem is, with the current circumstances, Everything that happens to Britain will be seen as self-inflicted.
Choices:
A: Cancel Brexit by parlimentary vote.
B: Take the deal, and become Norway writ large.
C: No deal.
When the UK crashes out in no-deal because it is too politically paralyzed to do anything else, accusing the EU of having been unreasonable will be obviously laughable.

Yes, the EU elections are the new Irish border.

The UK can't stay in beyond the EU elections, because they will have no representation.

Their seats have been re-allocated, there isn't time to allocate a new bunch and have that ratified by all parties.

.... no, it's the DUP that needs throwing under a bus

Legal feeling is that PM has the authority to withdraw but it would be most prudent to pass an act telling him or her to do so.

Referendum is constitutionally irrelevant: purely a political thing.

Seriously? What would you suggest as "compensation" for a backdoor to the EU market that you can literally drive a truck through?

and... Ultimately only the EU cares about no land border in Ireland? You don't agree that it's a constitutional problem for the UK? As well as a question of civil peace?

Or are you being ironic ?<deadpan>

<looks about for constitution, sees none, decides that in that case any fule can be an expert>

HM Gov't could take the decision unilaterally, but this particular HM Gov't doesn't have the kind of rock-solid majority in the Commons that would guarantee easy backing for the decision.

So we fall back on the hallowed convention that the House of Commons is sovereign. Ie, withdrawal of withdrawal would require a Commons vote.

A second referendum could satisfy the "democratic process" requirement, but would also require a Commons vote (as per the first referendum, established by Act of Parliament).