Breaking News .

[gulliver1]

Boris to ask for an extension of Three Months for Brexit.

[ToraToraTora]

link?

[Bobbisox1]

It’s been denied as ‘tittle tattle’ Sky News

[douglas9401]

"Prime Minister found dead in ditch" :-)

[ichkeria]

Are you confused about this by any chance?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-49936352

[THELOONYCORBYN]

he/she/it, whatever, is just confused, lets just leave it at that shall we !?..

[Mozz71]

Nigel Farage: "Why does he keep saying things that are not true?"

Irony overload.

[dannyk13]

More false news.

[ichkeria]

It is a conundrum tho: Johnson admits he’d have to send a letter.
And yet: we’ll still leave and we won’t break the law.
At the moment the strongest chance of that happening is if the EU refuses his request. And parliament is then unable or unwilling to revoke.
Maybe he could just send a further letter saying “cancel the first” but I can’t see how that would work. The EU, if they were determined to grant an extension could cook up all manner of ways around that. Based presumably on the “two can play at that game” approach.
Or some other cunning plan which would need to be more cunning than the cunning plans he’s so far tried.

The other thing is, why is parliament still to be prorogued for a Queen’s Speech if there’s going to be an election now?

[Old_Geezer]

Has the opposition called for an election/VONC ?

[ichkeria]

Plainly there is either going to be an election very soon, or there will be a government unable to get any of its policies through parliament (in other words: there’s going to be an election soon :-) )
So what we are going to have, if it comes to it, is the Queen effectively doing a party political broadcast for the Tory Party.

[mushroom25]

//is the Queen effectively doing a party political broadcast for the Tory Party. //

isn't that what any queen's speech is though, a shop window for the party who happens to be in power?

[HansUrbancka]

With Benn's Law, the remainers appear to have tied-up matters to keep the UK in the EU. The Government cannot leave without a deal, which then means the EU can keep refusing to agree to any proposals for the UK to leave .

It looks as if matters could further be placed before the Courts who seem to be taking over from Parliament.

Hans.

[ichkeria]

No, because normally an election isn’t about to happen. It’s typically AFTER an election or at the start of a new session of Parliament where a government stands some change of getting any of its legislation through.

[ichkeria]

That was to mushroom

[ichkeria]

The Withdrawal Act (No 2) to give it its official name, contains an amendment I believe which allows, possibly even requires at some stage I believe, for the previous deal to be voted on again (or the last version that never was voted on): that actually offers a way to “get Brexit done” in an orderly and sensible way, far from keeping the UK in the EU.

[ToraToraTora]

hans: "The Government cannot leave without a deal" - how do you work that out? the surrender act us merely to extend the date.

[Old_Geezer]

It merely asks us to request one and accept.

It's tying our government's hands behind it's back and asking a foreign elite to decide what next. However the hope is that the government and/or it's lawyers has some way to free us from such capitulation.

[Marshwarble]

NB Nigel Farage is a member of this "foreign elite", as well as a number of Brexit party and Tory MEPs.

[fender62]

democracy is dead..or will there be a hat trick.

[Old_Geezer]

Nigel is already a commissioner ? Wow, I didn't know. So much for ich's prediction then.