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Parliament has already voted yes on Brexit, and formal communication was already sent to the EU. According to Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty the UK now has les

by trosi 9y ago

Parliament has already voted yes on Brexit, and formal communication was already sent to the EU. According to Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty the UK now has less than 2 years to negotiate the terms of its exit. I don't think the process can be reversed but there is certainly a lot of leeway in how it will happen.

mathw 9y ago
Quite a few prominent EU figures have said they think it can be reversed quite easily. I imagine it gets harder the more negotiation has actually been done though, because especially if Theresa May takes her attitude to them there'll be increasing numbers of burning bridges behind her. The EU want us to stay though, so at the moment I think a reversal would be quite painless. In a year's time, maybe not.
Symbiote 9y ago
The process could be reversed. All the EU countries would need to agree, but it would be a huge vote of confidence in the EU if Britain changed its mind, so I think that part would be easy. However, it's unlikely Britain would back out of the decision. I think the best we can hope for is a Norway-like approach (EEA).
djaychela 9y ago
I think it can be halted - I've seen a number of high-level EU politicians say that it's possible to stop the process if the UK decides to. It was this that the Lib Dems were (weakly) campaigning on in the election - to give the people the vote whether to accept the deal or stay in the EU after the negotiations were complete.
Freak_NL 9y ago
It probably can be reversed if the UK wants to. Any amendment needed to make that legally possible would most likely be passed by the EP. Not that it would be easy, mind. If neither the UK nor the EU desires this break-up, then it won't happen. It all depends on what the UK government does (which realistically speaking probably does not include pulling the emergency brake on the Brexit, unfortunately).
dragonwriter 9y ago
The terms can be anything the UK and EU (but that's all of the EU) agrees to, including reentry. So its reversible, and if there was a change of government that wanted to reverse it I suspect the EU would go along. OTOH, it seems near certain that if a coalition is formed, it will be a Tory-DUP coalition, which won't want to reverse it (the DUP seems to want a softer Brexit, but it's not clear that the EU is interested in that.) If a government can't be formed.(which doesn't seem implausible), then my understanding is that there is another election in fairly short order.

by trosi 9y ago

mathw 9y ago

Quite a few prominent EU figures have said they think it can be reversed quite easily. I imagine it gets harder the more negotiation has actually been done though, because especially if Theresa May takes her attitude to them there'll be increasing numbers of burning bridges behind her. The EU want us to stay though, so at the moment I think a reversal would be quite painless. In a year's time, maybe not.

Symbiote 9y ago

The process could be reversed. All the EU countries would need to agree, but it would be a huge vote of confidence in the EU if Britain changed its mind, so I think that part would be easy. However, it's unlikely Britain would back out of the decision. I think the best we can hope for is a Norway-like approach (EEA).

djaychela 9y ago

I think it can be halted - I've seen a number of high-level EU politicians say that it's possible to stop the process if the UK decides to. It was this that the Lib Dems were (weakly) campaigning on in the election - to give the people the vote whether to accept the deal or stay in the EU after the negotiations were complete.

Freak_NL 9y ago

It probably can be reversed if the UK wants to. Any amendment needed to make that legally possible would most likely be passed by the EP. Not that it would be easy, mind. If neither the UK nor the EU desires this break-up, then it won't happen. It all depends on what the UK government does (which realistically speaking probably does not include pulling the emergency brake on the Brexit, unfortunately).

dragonwriter 9y ago

The terms can be anything the UK and EU (but that's all of the EU) agrees to, including reentry. So its reversible, and if there was a change of government that wanted to reverse it I suspect the EU would go along. OTOH, it seems near certain that if a coalition is formed, it will be a Tory-DUP coalition, which won't want to reverse it (the DUP seems to want a softer Brexit, but it's not clear that the EU is interested in that.) If a government can't be formed.(which doesn't seem implausible), then my understanding is that there is another election in fairly short order.