He’s a strange bird. (Very smart guy though - Classics scholar at Oxford.)
(Now unemployment is down again. Doom and gloom post Brexit vote? Still waiting for any signs of it…)
The European Union was already doomed when it was created.
Theresa will have to go through the hoops and get the go-ahead from Parliament as the Supreme Court dismissed her appeal this morning.
Supreme Court Brexit ruling: What happens next? Supreme Court Brexit ruling: What happens next? - BBC News
She should have just done this anyway.
Prinz_Brexiteer has a nice ring to it - very explicit! 
The legislation should pass parliament in a matter of days, then it’ll be rock n’ roll time.
(I’ve got a 20 year vintage bottle of whisky that is going to be cracked open the day that article 50 is triggered. Oh yes :-D)
BTW
Although the judgement is more or less a technicality, I would like to salute the three out of eleven supreme court justices who sided with the government: Lord Carnwath, Lord Reed and Lord Hughes.
(I’m disappointed with Lord Sumption. I hoped he would have more gumption…)
“Doom and gloom post Brexit vote? Still waiting for any signs of it.” - have you not been shopping recently? The prices are going up and this is just the start.
Exactly the same situation in the UK - How can we have a true union when England is ten times (or more) bigger than the other constituent parts? It means that only England has true democracy as the other parts can never out-vote England.
I know the script: the end of the UK is nigh, the economy is going to go up in smoke, zombies will stalk our high streets, etc, etc.
Meanwhile we have (according to the latest figures released today) the strongest 2016 growth in the entire G7 and record low unemployment. Sterling is showing some signs of recovering against the Euro and the Dollar too - although a weaker Pound is actually good for exports. Even David Blanchflower now admits his doom forecasts for the aftermath of a Brexit vote were wrong.
The future is (of course) always uncertain. But it is kind of strange to see diehard remainers backed into a position where they are hoping and praying for some kind of catastrophe for our country… (Not that it would help them, most probably, if the EU were perceived to be to blame in some way.)
British MPs have just voted by 498 to 114 to trigger article 50 (and thus begin formally leaving the EU.)
triggered!
Well, it still has to get through the House of Lords - but they (being un unelected body) are very unlikely to try to defy the will of the people in a referendum. If they did, it’d trigger an immediate election at which Theresa May has said there would be a manifesto commitment to abolish the Lords entirely and replace them with an elected upper house.
Yeah we have a similar thing called the Senate. Don’t worry, they wouldn’t risk their effortless and extremely well-paid jobs for anything in the world!
UK growth forecast raised again by Bank of England - in spite of Brexit.
An interesting opinion piece on the rise of extremism within the EU (and the double standards of many in the EU who are attacking some of Trump’s policies.)
QUOTE:
"…Most egregious is the hypocrisy of the leaders of many EU countries, including Angela Merkel and her cheerleaders among the British liberal elite. Their hypocrisy turns my stomach. For the truth is that their anger over the new President’s ban is outrageously two-faced.
Let me spell out the facts. Many European politicians treat migrants — and, in particular, Muslims — more disgracefully than they are being dealt with by Trump. For example, Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, wants to build a ‘massive’ fence to stop refugees crossing into his country from the East. He calls migrants ‘a poison’ that Hungary ‘won’t swallow’.
Why hasn’t he been subjected to the kind of chorus of opprobrium from those European liberals who greeted Trump’s move to tighten America’s borders? Why have fellow EU leaders not shunned Orban as a racist and a xenophobe? Instead, he is seen as a valued colleague and friend. His Fidesz party is in the same political grouping in the European Parliament as Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats. They work together at European summits, planning a common strategy…"
