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This is right. May will now usher MPs to the harder deadline (but still not a drop-dead deadline) unless she is stopped, which she may well be, meaning those EU elections could well happen,
The stalemate would then see UK still in the EU in an ante room, potentially for years...
The stalemate would then see UK still in the EU in an ante room, potentially for years...
Some irony that it's "Leave means Leave" who are first out the traps preparing legal action to ensure the Euro elections happen.... thus softening the new cliff edge.... thus keeping us in for much much longer....
There are sometimes advantages with groups not having a plan or a clue what they are doing beyond shouting and waving pitch forks
And when you think about it, it's a perfectly apt position for the UK to be in.
We're in stalemate anyway, can't get a majority for anything, can't really leave, can't really remain either. So we'll just stand frozen where we are now.
We're in stalemate anyway, can't get a majority for anything, can't really leave, can't really remain either. So we'll just stand frozen where we are now.
Of course, revoking Art50 would formalise this odd position because as I've suggested before, a revoke would keep us in but politically freeze our membership.
But while the stasis through endless Art50 extensions could give the impetus to Remain, it could also give the impetus to Leave by providing more time for No Deal prep.
In the meantime, the EU needs to start thinking about what *it* wants in all this, as Ivan Rogers has suggested.
