TO BE ABSOLUTELY THRILLED AT A HUNG PARLIAMENT

[rolopolovolo]

This is the best outcome by miles. No hard brexit. (The city now predicts soft Brexit or even no Brexit!!!) No more crazy ideas by either side. Compromise. Tories given a good slap in the face for this stupid election.

This is the first election day in a long time with a good result!

The EU keep saying Article 50 can be reversed.

If all 28 member states agree it can be reversed. I doubt they would.

I will only be thrilled at the hung parliament if it means that Brexit ends up not happening... which it might just do....

Saw one of the EU Parliament leaders being interviewed this morning and she said two things, when she was asked what would happen 'if' Britain couldn't agree on an exit plan and changed its mind:

• an extra year can be agreed
• we could 'talk' about an alternative scenario and that 'since we were treading new ground' there are no precedents (so. i.e. in theory, anything is possible...)

Still clutching at every straw possible here!

In more good news. Donald Trump's state visit is on hold!

There is nothing in the wording of Article 50 to say that it cannot be reversed. Not that I can see.

Therefore, surely with a consensus of the other nations (if achievable), it could be cancelled or reversed.

Interesting times, if also rather worrying.

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-in-tears-tory-staffer-10604478.amp

Boo, bloody hoo.

Top, I don't agree and lawyers are divided on this. The Supreme Court asked about that issue too when the court case was going through.
The fact it does not say you can withdraw the notice and instead says you serve the notice and 2 years later leave is very clear. If people could stop and start art 50 would have to say that otherwise no right to withdraw the notice exists. Therefore you would need all 28 to agree.

Also let's be honest the public voted to leave the EU. Secondly 90% of MPs just elected were on a Brexit ticket ( I am a Remainer) so it's very difficult to see who has a mandate now to say we don't leave the EU, isn't it?

Why be so vile, Lottie? Despite the image Labour and the media like to paint, at the end of the day she is still a human being.

Funny how Labour supporters are up in arms about abuse directed at Diane Abbott, but then do exactly the same thing?

Pot, kettle etc.

jng

How do you know that lottie supports labour?

Remember her saying she usually voted Labour on another thread...

Well the Tory cuts have made many people cry, and worse.

why wouldn't the other states say yes? we are one of the bigger contributors, and lots of EU citizens like moving here?

now is not a good time to brexit.

I agree with you OP, if we can get some comprise and a soft Brexit it will be the best news I have heard for a long time. The centre has felt like a lonely place to be of late.(no Brexit would be better but I am too old for miracles!)

Thank you jnb

Yes, TM is still a human being. One who is proud to head a government which has plunged thousands of vulnerable people into real poverty. My disabled neighbour whose benefits were cut and who found herself choosing between paying for heating and food had very genuine cause for tears, but May has never demonstrated that she cares one jot about people like her.

Was there ever a good time to Brexit?

Would any one who voted for Brexit have done so if they had been told we would be negotiating terms in the middle of this sort of chaos? I think there is a real case at the very least for putting the brakes on, and/or making continuation subject to further referendum when we know the terms, or subject to Parliamentary vote.

No one should have voted for Brexit anyway.

I cannot believe that our nation fell for UKIP's vision of leaving the EU. It will save us NO money and make us lose an awful lot.

The Brexiters are going to get everything they deserve.

The Brexiters are going to get everything they deserve

Your Schadenfreude is quite misplaced. It will affect all of us.

'Why be so vile, Lottie? Despite the image Labour and the media like to paint, at the end of the day she is still a human being.'

Oh fuck off with your vile. Maybe you'll be 'vile' too when your disabled child is on the receiving end of a government like this

I voted remain, so while I might not feel the guilt will be still feel the pain.

Schadenfreude won't help anyone.

Why the passive aggressive sign off?