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From Fox News:

"In a devastating blow to British Prime Minister Theresa May, the British Parliament rejected a bill Tuesday that lists the terms of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union — more than two years after the country's historic 2016 referendum that resulted in the decision to depart the E.U."

https://www.foxnews.com/world/theresa-may-brexit-deal-defeated-by-record-margin-what-happens-now

Matt

Sounds like the decision was made via public vote...

As I understand it, the EU can't prevent the UK from departing under article 50. But, without a definitive exit deal, approved by the UK Parliament, the actual departure will be total chaos and potentially disastrous for the Brits. May has failed to develop that plan after over 2 years, and now her own party is starting to turn on her.

Matt

Maybe it goes under "you can't trust the ruling class of politicians and the press."

Got to give credit to the French, for finally showing some spine !

May is stuck between a rock and a hard place. She is obligated to negotiate an exit plan with the EU, based on a referendum that she was against in the first place.

Matt

"And we think our government is a mess...." I am most certain that comparing the Brits situation to our own will soothe the ailing hearts of the complainants here on the CF and elsewhere.

I say let's feel even better and compare our "mess" with the "mess" in El Salvador. There. That should stop the bitching here once and for all.

Did I hear a reference to "sheep" somewhere? Amazing.

The Rock

Members yell at each other regularly and even get into fistfights.

Brexit was the result of the conservatives in the British government convincing enough people that leaving the EU was the path to “Make Britain Great Again.” It was nationalism and a “Britain First” mentality at its finest (aka worst) - Brexits rallying points were on perceived issues of trade, immigration, and national identity - and the reality has now dawned on the populace that isolationism has a serious price and that whatever deal they end up with is likely going to be far worse than what they had while they were in the EU. They really don’t have any options at this point. Chaos indeed.

Precisely HH. Like southern border crisis, trade deficits, Muslim immigrant terrorists, etc.

There’s no time to do much of anything, HH. The process has already started to leave the EU and that can’t be undone. Looking more and more like it’ll all go down without any kind of deal with the EU as well.

Now, there's a reason to run for office...:)

We're seeing essentially the same story play out here, only with a different cast.

It’s not a question of if it’ll happen, it’s how it’s goong to happen and that is where the auK leadership can’t find common ground. They are the proverbial dog that has now caught the car by the bumper.

The Brits already voted to pull out of the EU. The process of formal withdrawal has been initiated and is currently slated to go into effect at the end of March. The next step is to negotiate terms of the withdrawal. That is where the hang up currently stands - in the terms of the withdrawal agreement.