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Brexit begins: Date Article 50 will be triggered to start process of UK leaving EU now confirmed
By RT https://www.rt.com/uk/381391-article-50-brexit-eu/
Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger Article 50 on March 29, formally starting the process for Britain to leave the European Union.
May will write to the EU next Wednesday announcing the beginning of Brexit. It will start the clock on a two-year countdown to Brexit and allow negotiations between London and Brussels to begin.
Tim Barrow, the UK’s ambassador to the EU, formally notified the office of the EU Council President Donald Tusk on Monday morning, the Telegraph reports.
The PM’s official spokesman said: “We said it would be by the end of March and thought it would be helpful to say when it will happen.
“We want negotiations to start promptly. We expect it will be a two-year process and we are confident that is what we will achieve. So Britain will exit the EU on 29 March 2019.”
“There will be a letter, [May] will notify president Tusk in writing, and the prime minister has already confirmed she will give a statement to parliament as well.
“More details will be given in due course,” he said.
What was the breakdown across the UK?
England voted for Brexit, by 53.4% to 46.6%. Wales also voted for Brexit, with Leave getting 52.5% of the vote and Remain 47.5%. Scotland and Northern Ireland both backed staying in the EU. Scotland backed Remain by 62% to 38%, while 55.8% in Northern Ireland voted Remain and 44.2% Leave.
See the results in more detail.
What about the economy, so far?
David Cameron, his Chancellor George Osborne and many other senior figures who wanted to stay in the EU predicted an immediate economic crisis if the UK voted to leave.
House prices would fall, there would be a recession with a big rise in unemployment – and an emergency Budget would be needed to bring in the large cuts in spending that would be needed.
The pound did slump the day after the referendum – and remains around 15% lower against the dollar and 10% down against the euro – but the predictions of immediate doom have not proved accurate with the UK economy estimated to have grown 1.8% in 2016, second only to Germany’s 1.9% among the world’s G7 leading industrialised nations.
Inflation has been inching higher – to 1.8% in January – its highest rate for two and a half years, but unemployment has continued to fall, to stand at an 11 year low of 4.8%. Annual house price increases have fallen from 9.4% in June but were still at an inflation-busting 7.4% in December, according to official ONS figures.
Britain and Germany are planning to sign a new defence pact after Theresa May triggers Article 50.
Ms May is seeking to emphasise Britain’s contribution to European security through training, cyber security and martime patrols as she begins the Brexit divorce process.
The UK defence ministry said it was working with Germany “on a joint vision statement on future co-operation.”
The German defence ministry confirmed to The Financial Times it was working on joint projects.
“Independent of the effects of Brexit, Great Britain remains a strong partner and ally in Nato and also bilaterally,” it told the paper.
Scotland’s government will present a bill next week in the Scottish Parliament calling for a new independence referendum to avoid taking part in a “disastrous hard Brexit.”
Sturgeon told a conference of her Scottish National Party in Aberdeen that she would act on the promise she made on Monday to call a second independence referendum.
“We are the national party with a truly internationalist outlook,” she said, adding that whatever the outcome of the vote, “Scotland’s future must be Scotland’s choice.”
More Scots want to leave the United Kingdom than ever in the 18-year history of ScotCen’s Scottish Social Attitudes poll, according to the latest results published Wednesday.
The survey of 1,237 people, conducted between July and December last year, will boost Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who announced Monday she would call a second referendum on Scottish independence over Brexit.
But ScotCen also reported high levels of Euroskepticism among those surveyed, with 25 percent backing Brexit and 42 percent wanting the EU’s powers reduced. Some 56 percent of all Remain voters want the EU to have fewer powers.
In a statement, ScotCen said these stats mean that focusing on EU membership may not be the best way to swing voters in favor of independence, and now may not have been the right time to call a second referendum.
“There is a risk that linking independence closely to the idea of staying in the EU could alienate some of those who currently back leaving the U.K.,” said John Curtice, the elections expert who oversaw the survey.
Members of European Parliament will push for any Brexit deal with the U.K. to be subject to the European Court of Justice and for Britain to abide by the EU’s tax standards after it leaves the bloc, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.
According to a draft resolution prepared by Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, MEPs will also insist the U.K. continue to “fulfill all its commitments” to the EU budget.
“Appropriate transitional arrangements” should help provide “legal certainty and continuity” and “avoid disruption in financial markets,” according to the report.
The committee noted the EU should be prepared for there to be no Brexit deal concluded before the two-year negotiation deadline once the U.K. triggers Article 50.
The Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland on Tuesday called for a referendum on Northern Ireland leaving the U.K. and joining the Republic of Ireland “as soon as possible.”
Speaking hours after Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for a second referendum on Scottish independence, Michelle O’Neill said Brexit would be a “disaster” for Northern Ireland. Fifty-six percent of Northern Irish voters backed staying in the EU in last summer’s referendum.
“Brexit will be a disaster for the economy, and a disaster for the people of Ireland. A referendum on Irish unity has to happen as soon a possible,” O’Neill said, Reuters reported.
Welsh nationalists have also called for a referendum on leaving the U.K. to be on the table.
Leanne Wood, leader of Plaid Cymru, said, “The announcement from the Scottish government … shows that any failure by the U.K. government to recognize Scotland’s interests could lead to the end of the U.K. as a state. In that situation, Wales would need to decide its own future.
“Plaid Cymru has said that a remaining ‘England and Wales’ entity was not on the ballot paper during the previous EU referendum. A national debate to explore all of the options, including that of independent Wales, must take place in Wales when that scenario becomes a realistic one.”
I find it hard to beleive that we will actually be allowed to leave.
I think that ecconomic conditions will worsen by tightening the screws on credit and as the price increases hit the shops (already happening), we will be given “Another chance” to vote on this issue. This will be repeated until the NWO get the result they want and then no more votes allowed.
I think something similar happened in the Republic of Ireland, only in that case they were given ecconomic stimulus to create a Euro Boom. When the vote was in and Ireland locked down, the stimulus was withdrawn and the ecconomy tanked.
Irish MGHOW would be able to confirm if I got this right.
Cynic that I am, I beleive democracy is only allowed when the outcome of the vote is known in advance, or there is no choice on offer at all.
Brexit was a big supprise for the leaders as they thought we were all dumbed down enough to forget our National ties.
They won’t make that mistake again.
It's Time to get Wise
Anonymous25Independence Day 29 March 2017
Whatever happens, I’d rather be poor and free than rich and a slave to unelected corrupt EU officials.
Theresa May will just have to tighten Government spending and stop giving millions to her feminist cronies at Women’s Aid for fake policies and the like.
Bring it on and to echo Machiavelli point
I’d rather be poor and free than rich and a slave to unelected corrupt EU officials.
Life's a bitch, then you're supposed to marry one and then die- sod that for a game of soldiers!
Bring it on and to echo Machiavelli point
I’d rather be poor and free than rich and a slave to unelected corrupt EU officials.
The concept dates back to Ancient Greece.
Alexander the Great, “If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”
In other words, if one cannot be a ruler of men than one should seek at least to be a truly free man, even if the cost of that freedom is poverty.
Well there’s been enough talk lets see some action.
Cynic that I am, I beleive democracy is only allowed when the outcome of the vote is known in advance, or there is no choice on offer at all.
Democracy requires three things to function – individual liberty, a free market economy and sound money. There has been no functional democracy or a republic in the last 100 years. The illusion has been absolute.
Remember we have a large trade defecit with the EU.
Now if European leaders put politics ahead of the economy it just proves what the EU is really about.The argument that Scotland voted to remain is disingenuous because the vote was a vote by the United Kingdom.
Sturgeon is a grubby little opportunist driven by an irrational hatred of England and the English.
If Scotland does become independent there is no way they can join the EU because of their debt level.One questions the logic of becoming an independent nation and part of the EU. NO EU member state has any independence as the European courts are supreme.
Members of European Parliament will push for any Brexit deal with the U.K. to be subject to the European Court of Justice and for Britain to abide by the EU’s tax standards after it leaves the bloc, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.
That would not be BREXIT. There is no such thing as soft or hard Brexit. Brexit means Brexit. In reality the negotiation will be about how much they want us to pay when in reality we should be getting money back.
If you look at Greece you have to realise that the EU and EURO is just an extortion racket.
Furthermore the EU is not a free trade agreement it is protectionism of the worst kind.
Personally I would not bother talking to them I would just use the great repeal bill.
The lawyers and bean counters will tell you how complicated this whole thing is so they can make a lot of money from it.
Like my name says It’sallbs folks.
It came as no surprise that Cameron and the rest of project fear told blatant lies, they have been telling lies about the EU since 1964.
The EU is a German and French scam which has destroyed most of Europe whilst Germany has prospered. teh only other country to prosper is good old Britian -why because we didn’t join the Euro and we have the city (as much as I hate teh fraudster bankers) which is way bigger than Wall Street.
http://www.leavemeansleave.eu
It should have been triggered the morning of the results.
By dragging it out the incompetent Plutocratic British government has allowed the EUSSR to strengthen its position.
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred.
http://www.leavemeansleave.eu
Given, what most of us here know, or suspect of the NWO agenda. How powerful they are and how they pull the strings. I can’t help feeling a little glimmer of pride that the people of England gave a big F~~~ YOU! to their plans with Brexit. I had given up any hope that freethinkers were still in existence in any number here but I was wrong.
I understand that “Resistance is futile”, but it felt good to know we were defiant to the end.
The blood of my ancestors was spilt in waves to establish this Nation – for better or worse.
Tribal loyalty runs deeper than we think.
Never Shall be Slaved.
It's Time to get Wise
Given, what most of us here know, or suspect of the NWO agenda. How powerful they are and how they pull the strings. I can’t help feeling a little glimmer of pride that the people of England gave a big F~~~ YOU! to their plans with Brexit. I had given up any hope that freethinkers were still in existence in any number here but I was wrong.
I understand that “Resistance is futile”, but it felt good to know we were defiant to the end.
The blood of my ancestors was spilt in waves to establish this Nation – for better or worse.
Tribal loyalty runs deeper than we think.
Never, Never, Ne….ver Shall be Slaved.!
It's Time to get Wise
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Nazi’s, not a chance. Try the USSR.
The EU was formed within 2 years of the former Soviet Union collapsing and it’s always been obvious that the EU was designed to be its successor.
The Communists of yesteryear have simply morphed into today’s Liberals and ‘Social Democrats’.
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred.
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Nazi’s, not a chance. Try the USSR.
The EU was formed within 2 years of the former Soviet Union collapsing and it’s always been obvious that the EU was designed to be its successor.
The Communists of yesteryear have simply morphed into today’s Liberals and ‘Social Democrats’.
No it’s fact the EU was startwd by thw Nazis.
http://www.leavemeansleave.eu
Did you not wtahc teh video he set out teh facts -tehya re facts it ws starte dby teh nazis
it si fac , fact that si what happend it’s fact
Stop listening to teh media
http://www.leavemeansleave.eu
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