Article 50 Not Meant For Use.

[Togo]

This should tell us just how devious these EUSSR lizards were, and indeed still are.

//A former Italian premier has claimed that Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which, if triggered, would initiate Britain’s exit from the EU, was designed not for actual employment but as a deterrent - and he should know, he wrote the thing.//

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/article-50-was-never-supposed-to-be-used-says-the-man-who-wrote-it/ar-BBuTgJh?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=spartanntp

[New Judge]

For heaven’s sake!

It’s quite true. If we want to leave tomorrow we can. There’s nothing to stop us and no “negotiations” are necessary. We won’t do that because it would be foolish to undo fifty years of integration overnight and a measured approach is necessary and desirable. But the idea that the EU can or will impose conditions upon us is alarmist. To understand why, simply ask yourself this: what “conditions” do they impose on other (normal) countries with whom the EU trades? They do not impose freedom of movement; they do not require a huge contribution to their budget; they do not insist that EU law trumps domestic law. The very worst they can do is impose the maximum tariffs that the WTO rules allow (which would amount to less than our net budget contribution anyway). And even that is highly unlikely.

I’m afraid the likes of “Alarmist Eddie” are simply not considering the issue in a rational way. So conditioned have they become to believing that EU membership is not only desirable but vital to our very existence that they have lost the ability to think logically. There are around 150 or more non-EU nations. Many of them trade perfectly well with the EU, very often with no trading agreement in place (mainly because the sclerotic EU is seemingly incapable of negotiating trade deals in less than about ten years). Many seem to thrive. What is it about the UK that makes people believe it cannot?

It’s almost certainly true that it was never envisaged that Article 50 would be needed. So arrogant are the Euromaniacs and so entrenched are they in their dogma that they could not possibly envisage a country leaving. Judging by some of the comments since the referendum many in the UK seem unable to grasp the principle either.

[Togo]

NJ gets ba for the beautifully succinct last paragraph of his post. I am sure that it could not be bettered.

[bazwillrun]

re NJs info...I did see some figures earlier today...

168 other countries trade to the value of about 1.75 trillion pounds with the eussr, and they do that without losing their sovereignty, without losing control of their borders, without having eussr laws made and forced on them, without the eussr trying to take over their country etc etc...

[Khandro]

^^ and without giving up the independence of their armed forces.

[bazwillrun]

exactly khando...that was covered by one of the etc !..too many things to type them all out !