No country has ever escaped the EU after a no vote in the first referendum.
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What do you mean by escaped the EU?
A territory (Greenland) left the EU after a single referendum and a number of other countries have ratified decisions against further integration on a single referendum such as Sweden and Denmarks' decision not to use the Euro. The overwhelming majority of referendums have been in favour of proposals or have ratified Treaties. The Danes held two votes on the Maastricht Treaty and the Irish two votes on the Treaties of Nice and Lisbon.
So the UK is the only country that has sought to escape the EU. Whether there is a second referendum is still a point of debate.
Leaked Commons legal analysis of Brexit deal vindicates Trump, contradicts May and adds to Brexiteers’ concerns
https://brexitcentral.com/leaked-com...eers-concerns/
It's good to see Bercow going through the motions...
A thought occurs to me, if all of the members of the Conservative and Unionist party who keep on going on about how the Union must be maintained were presented with an ultimatum which said the only way possible to maintain Northern Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom in the way that it is now was to abandon Brexit, what would they decide? With the weather the way it's been, I've been stuck in the house for the last couple of days and spent yesterday afternoon watching the debate on BBC Parliament. There were so many MPs who spoke about the backstop and how it was unacceptable to them because they were a Unionist, but what are their stronger beliefs, the Union or Brexit? We are close to the situation that I outlined above now, but I see little sign that there would be many who would put the Union above Brexit.
The betrayal of Brexit March sounds well attended.
About as much as we had for a Tuesday game against Rochdale in the 1990s.
Actually, sorry about that they’ve slightly more to be honest 😃
Docility is why it's so easy for politicians to hoof Brexit into the ether. They understand people's commitment to it begun and ended with a trip to polling stations to place an X next to their preferred option.
Vote being pulled
Vote now is in the long grass .
Latest , there may never be a meaningful vote at all .
Jon Snow on Twitter;-
"As May postpones/abandons her attempt to sell and win a vote on her Brexit deal, the faces on government benches are uniformly deeply glum: This moment represents a rock bottom low in British politics"
Feels like a lifetime but this was 3.5 years ago.
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