YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING, USA!!

No, I don't think so, Pete, although I'm sure many people who voted to stay in the EU will hope so. But, if you look at the judgement it's not about stopping BREXIT taking place it's about whether or not the House of Commons has the power to decide on triggering Article 50.
The estimate is that the Tories have enough of a majority with 329 MP's , even with the few rebel Tory MP's, to pass the Bill for Article 50. What Mrs May wants/wanted to avoid was delaying the stated March triggering. I can't see the Government winning their proposed appeal with the Supreme Court. The Tories could go for a General Election, which I think Labour at present,, has no chance of winning, and that legally would give them the Mandate to trigger Article 50 without referring to the House of Commons but that would mean even further delay.

 

Well, I think we would have been a bit unworldly and naive, Pete, if we hadn't expected legal wranglings, resistance from people, organisations with hidden agenda's, using our very own democratic and legal system to delay or whatever the inevitable BREXIT.

 

Well, think about it, there really isn't any political option for this Government, or any Party, to ignore the Referendum no matter what. For any Country to declare it's leaving the EU after a Government called Referendum, go through through all the Political turmoil that has happened, and will happen, and then change it's mind and ignore the decision of the People would not only cause Political chaos with the UK but would reduce the country to be a laughing stock globally. There is now a lot more to play for than just technical points and arguments. Legally, there is nothing that can stop BREXIT, and politically there isn't an MP out there, bar the SNP, who would stand in front of the BREXIT Tank rumbling along.

 

I agree with you Dai. But unfortunately the opponents of BREXIT will use our Democratic beliefs and the Judiciary to bring any, and every, point of legal argument to delay the progress while trying to undermine the Government, the Referendum and the triggering of Article 50, not with the UK's interests at heart but for their own organisations commercial and personal financial interests.

 

I agree, longk, but unfortunately in this USA Presidential election the American public has no third candidate to vote for. As I said earlier most of the World seems to be in the turmoil of loss of faith in the Establishment Politicians of their countries and turning in exasperation to even worse candidates, or entering into a new phase of relationships with trade organisations like Canada and the UK, or like the EU facing general political unhappiness within it's members acerbated by the immigration crisis, and Russian trying to flex it's muscles and adopting an expansionist policy.
Hopefully, we'll get to live through it all and within a couple of years or so we might see some stability in all area.............and then again.

 

And has there even been a mention of the last lot??? I doubt whether most Americans know there are other Political Parties beyond the Republicans and Democrats and perhaps it isn't in their mentality to even think of voting outside the two main parties.