Brexit Bombshell

 

 

The Brexit plots thickens!

 

Theresa May has held firm that Brexit means Brexit and she was to flex her ministerial muscles to determine when and how Article 50 was triggered without the need for MPs to have a voice or vote.

 

Campaigners called this unconstitutional and the High Court agreed……meaning that Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU……not Theresa May or anyone else on a Westminster whim.  

 

From Theresa May’s perspective, she had 3 objectives she was running with:

 

1.     Hold her negotiating cards close to her chest.

 

2.     Make sure MPs didn’t have some kind of vote veto on the negotiations.

 

3.     Delivering the Article 50 ‘moment’ at the date she said she would.

 

Given the High Court ruling, all 3 objectives are now under threat……no surprise that she has appealed the ruling and this will be considered by the court at the start of December.

 

Assuming the appeal is thrown out (and it should be), what will MPs do?

 

Interestingly, 3 out of 4 MPs backed remain but continuing with such a theme would mean Westminster taking on the people / voters and going against the result. What a predicament.  

 

We are only a short way through our march to Brexit, yet already things are incredibly complicated!

 

Brexit walks into a bar. The barman says "why the long farce?"

 

This could be a long drawn out story!