Tuesday 4 December 2018

The Meaningful Vote





BrExit review

In early November 2018 I discovered that DExEU (the Department for Exiting Europe) was in greater turmoil than I could have imagined. The resignation of David Davis and Dominic Raab is the tip of the iceberg. Those among us who have seen the film "The Titanic" or studied the incident in detail will know that serious human error can cause unimaginable damage.


 The European Economic Area (E.E.A.
The EEA includes all EU member states and also Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. 

It allows the latter three nations to be part of the EU’s single (internal) market.
Switzerland is neither an EU nor EEA member but is part of the single market - this means Swiss nationals have the same rights to live and work in the UK as other EEA nationals.


The ECJ Advocate General has confirmed that the ECJ is likely to conclude that the United Kingdom can revoke Article 50 unilaterally. The real problem that challenges MPs in Parliament is the slender majority who voted to leave the European Union.