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3rd Time’s Not The Charm For Brexit, And Trump Says He Supports The Great Lakes Because They’re “Very Deep”…
Today’s the day Britain is supposed to leave the European Union. It’s not.
A vote on a 3rd proposal on how to do it from Prime Minister Theresa May failed by about five dozen votes. What does that mean? For one, the European Union puts a harder deadline on the U.K. than it ever has before, opening the possibility that it could lose patience and Britain could just crash out without a deal in a matter of weeks. Or the U.K. could possibly appeal for more time, if it shows it’s got some visibility about a viable way forward. Another big immediate issue is whether May will stick around to continue to shepherd the process through, or will she be forced to resign, resulting in new elections, which of course would also delay the process.
May shouldered some responsibility, but also issued blame for Parliament’s utter inability to reach a consensus thus far, saying:
“That we are not leaving today is a matter of deep personal regret to me.”
But Brexit could also just be an example of something that at first sounds good to a bunch of people, but when they go and try to do it, turns out not to be.
