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Theresa May asks Europe for a three-month extension, gets two weeks instead
After hours of difficult and sometimes passionate talks, the leaders decided that Britainâs exit date will be pushed back to May 22 if next week Mrs. May can persuade lawmakers in Parliament to accept her plan for leaving the bloc, which they have already rejected overwhelmingly, not once but twice.
If she cannot persuade lawmakers to accept her plan, Mrs. May will get a shorter delay in exiting the European Union â until April 12. But Britain could stay in the bloc longer if it decides it needs more time for a more fundamental rethink of Brexit, as the process is known.
http://nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/europe/brexit-extension-eu-uk.html
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I have the luxury of watching the UK shit the bed from the far side of the world rather than being inside the maelstrom, but it kind of looks like May and the Brexiteers are using some old tactics
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What hotel chain does SHE try to run?
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Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in central London calling for another EU referendum, as MPs search for a way out of the Brexit impasse.
Organisers of the âPut It To The Peopleâ campaign say more than a million people joined the march before rallying in front of Parliament.
MeanwhileâŚ
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage re-joined the March to Leave in Linby, near Nottingham, on Saturday morning telling around 200 Brexit supporters that Mrs May had reduced the nation âto a state of humiliationâ.
Speaking from the top of an open-top bus, Mr Farage said those gathering for the Peopleâs Vote march in London were not the majority, before leading the marchers through the village.
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And the right wing press have suddenly become interested in balance now that they arenât in control anymore.
Also, as of right nowâŚ
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Thereâs a word for âdoing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,â but itâs slipped my mind.
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Does she really hope to get her deal passed or does she merely try to create a record of her Doing Something⢠to prevent no deal so that she can wash her hands of what she expects to happen?
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is this article mostly accurate?
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It seems straightforward enough.
She needs a majority to approve any particular plan, but there is no such majority. She set them driving towards the cliffâs edge so that if they donât agree on her plan, or at least some plan, they go over. Still no such majority, and anyway, with so much at stake, itâs only reasonable for each side to insist the other sides be reasonable and accept all their demands.
(for certain values of reasonable.)
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I suspect weâll be able to repost this same quote every day for the foreseeable future
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itâs like theyâre playing Russian Roulette with bullets in all the chambers
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More like theyâre trying to defuse a bomb, and no two people can agree upon which wire to cut, so theyâre just letting the timer tick down.
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Theyâre playing Russian roulette with automatic pistols. This has points of similarity, but the idiots running the show are the kind whoâd figure that theyâre reasonably safe with one bullet in the clipâŚ
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theyâre debating HOW the bomb should explode
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With the obvious countdown, it is rather an obvious metaphor.
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