MEPs vote on Brexit extension appeal

Just that, really - haven't seen it publicised, and surprised no GNers have commented, did everyone think EU would just wave through our request?

It did cross my mind that they might refuse. But they do look like the grownups at the moment.

It is in Euronews.

Should the request be made

Here's hoping the blonde numpty will see sense.

I see no sense in asking for an extension. It is about time we just got on with it and retain our dignity.

It's more a question of trying to restore some dignity, which has already been lost.

Leaving without an agreement (deal) would just confirm that the country has lost its marbles.

Our dignity is in that ditch waiting for Boris to die beside it.

If I were them I would be so sick of the UK......we are so annoying! can't make our minds up at all.

I'm personally curious as to what would happen if Boris refuses to send that letter - there wouldn't be enough time, surely, to take legal action before Oct31, so we would crah out by default?

Or would Parliament take over the negotiations?

I agree with dragonfly46

We haven't been able to sort out anything in three years. An extension is merely a time for more shameful, Brexit-blocking parliamentary behaviour.

Let's get on, get out and move forward. The EU is toying with us and hoping Remainers can create yet more chaos.

I love the Remainer use of 'crash out'. We'd be gliding on to better things, but that doesn't suit the conversation, does it?

Ever thought that Scotland (or some Scottish people) don't want to 'crash out'of the UK, but seek 'independence' which sounds much more dignified.

The UK seeks independence from the EU

The sooner the better too.

For three and a bit years the only British people that the government have listened to are the 17 million that voted for a pig in a poke.

It is high time that they started to listen to the 50 million UK citizens who never voted for this brexit nonsense and can now see clearly just how damaging it would be for our country. We must do everything we can to STOP BREXIT

Unless you’ve missed huge chunks of the Scottish Indy ref it’s been far from dignified - we might not have used the term ‘crashing out’ but there have been plenty of other terms used which are akin to that.

Agree varian

Ref debate

I am a remainer but I think stopping Brexist will give us even less credibility in the world. Lets just get on with it and sort out the deals later. It has to happen and we have to accept it. A lot of remainers I know feel the same.

Anecdotal evidence of folk you know is never as helpful as properly conducted opinion polls, which have shown a majority for Remain for over two years.

The legislation instructs the PM, if he cannot achieve an acceptable withdrawal deal, to request a three month extension.

Three months is long enough for a general election but not long enough for a referendum, which is preferred by all the opposition parties except the Labour Party so it looks most likely that we are headed for a general election.

The Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for a People's Vote and that is still the preferred choice of the party. However the policy adopted at the party conference, endorsed by the overwhelming majority of members, is that if a general election comes first, the Liberal Democrats will offer to Revoke Article 50 and Remain, if there is a majority LD government.

In a general election each party puts forward it's platform of policies to tell the electorate what it would do if it became the government.

It is now crystal clear to all voters that the way to stop brexit is to vote Liberal Democrat.

varian what hyperbolic rot: it is high time that they started to listen to the 50 million UK citizens who never voted for this brexit nonsense

I know you like to add up everyone who didn’t vote for Brexit but you do realise don’t you that (a) kids can’t vote and that (b) not everyone who couldn’t be bothered to get down to the polling station would have definitely voted Remain?

I just think you are being disingenuous adding it up the way you do and presenting it as a fact. Fake news.

I'm afraid ug that whichever way you cut the cake, taking people of voting age 46.5 million were eliginle to vote, and 17.4 million voted to leave - that's 37%, not the majority of the eligible voters. Obvioulsy no-one knows how non-voters would have voted, but no way is 37% a majority of the eligible population.

(sorry about spelling)

It is a fact that over 50 million people living in the UK never voted for this brexit nonsense. I make no assumptions about how they might vote, but it is a fact that they did not vote the way ug voted., even if ug and her brexitty friends don't like it.

But within those 50 million varian surely you have to concede that a great proportion of them were/are under 18y? And some who are over that age might have voted Leave if they could have been bothered to go and vote?

Urmstongran there is a not unreasonable assumption made that people who don't bother to go out and vote for change do so because they are content with the status quo. Nobody can say for sure how those absent votes would have been cast, but those people obviously weren't avid leavers or remainers or they'd have turned out.