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Brexit Show Down Set For September! 😲

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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The Remainers are laying out their battle plans for a Brexit show down with Theresa May when Parliament reconvenes in September.

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A plot is being formulated by the pro-EU lobby to amend the European Withdrawal Bill to include a clause that will keep the UK inside the European Economic Area for years to come.

This could take the form of a beck-bench amendment to the withdrawal bill, which looks to have received the blessing of some on the labour front bench, such as the Brexit spokesman, Sir Keir Starmer. Also, Labour MP, Stephen Kinnock, is reported to be in talks with some Tory MPs about this, saying that “I have been reaching out with a particular proposal to 15 Conservative MPs so far”.

And on the Tory side, it’s no secret that Philip Hammond wants an extended transitional period and William Hague has also come out in support.

Given the wafer-thin nature of the Tory and DUP alliance working majority, 15 Tory rebels would be enough to defeat the government and force the UK to remain in the EEA.

For information, the EEA is an area of free trade and the free movement of people comprising all the EU member states as well as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

Theresa May’s government has already dismissed any such arrangement saying that membership of the single market and the freedom of movement of people will end on the day of Brexit.

But the Remain camp are as intent as ever to keep the UK as tightly bound to the EU as they can.

They will tell you that this is some sort of damage limitation move to prevent a cliff edge scenario, when in reality it is a way to forge ever more chains to keep us permanently shackled to the EU bureaucratic monolith.

The longer these people can keep the ties in place, the easier they think it will be to grind the will of the people down until we just meekly accept our place in their EU dream.

As far as I am concerned these plotters are doing great damage to the UK cause by effectively sabotaging the Brexit negotiations.

These people know exactly what they are doing and are prepared to do whatever it takes to prevent the UK becoming a successful, self-governing nation. Why do they hate the UK and its people so much?

I’m with Brexit minister Steve Baker, on this one. All talk and campaigning of this type by the Remainers is a fatal show of weakness and all it does is give comfort to the EU negotiating side. But I forget, the UK Remain faction is on the same side as the European Union in this. They either want the UK to stay in the EU or suffer as much as possible for leaving.

Both the Conservative party and Labour party went to the polls in the last general election on a Brexit platform of leaving the EU. Any Labour or Tory MP on the other side of the Brexit argument is therefore in my opinion making liars out of those parties.

As a final thought, any extension to the Article 50 process beyond the 29th March 2019, such as the one being mooted, would also have to have the unanimous agreement of the other EU 27 member states. Ponder on that.

What are your views on the efforts of the pro-EU lobby?

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