Re: It's done...ish
Originally Posted by
ruthio
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This worries me a great deal, and presumably this is one of the reasons MPs hate it...
This (the deal) removes our legal (and sovereign) right to cancel negotiations and walk away with no deal - the one thing that almost everyone agrees the EU is rather nervous about.
This has always been our best negotiating tool - which the Remainers on the UK team have steadfastly refused to threaten to use, thereby reducing our position almost to supplicant.
So...are we putting ourselves into a position which is not even acceptable under UN rules under which a sovereign nation is bound into a treaty from which it cannot withdraw?
No wonder the EU grabbed it with both hands.
I think I'm changing my mind...
I agree.
However, I have never changed my mind about Brexit, and never will.
However, the time has come for us to learn what the future of our country will be.
If May's deal is not rejected by the Commons, the country is lost. We shall be a vassal state of the Franco-German alliance, and shall remain so.
Still, as I have said before, due to a number of factors - many of our own making - the country has had it anyway. I'm just glad that Marge and I will not be around in fifty years.