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Originally Posted by pip08456
I suppose stupid is a s stupid does.
It is ficticious in that it implies 63% did not wish to leave.
The same fiction that 79% didn't want to remain.
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The wording of A50 does not make provision for the process to be reversed, I don't need to try and find a way around paywalled links to know this as I have actually read article 50.
What it does provide is the option fror a state to re-apply subject to Article 49.
Article50(5)
Article 49
Article 2 (1)
Be careful what you wish for.
I suppose I'd better post a non paywalled fully google searchable link for those who may doubt my quotes from the Lisbon Treaty.
http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the...article-2.html
You can find all the other Articles from that starting point, they even provide forward and back buttons so you can go through all the articles. |
From the FT article i linked to ,fully searchable and non paywalled
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First, as everyone agrees, the decision to invoke Article 50 is a unilateral act that does not depend on what other member states think or do. The sole condition is that the interested state must act “in accordance with its own constitutional requirements”.
Second, the Article 50 procedure provides for notification by the interested state only of its “intention” to leave. Formal notification of that intention would be made to the European Council, comprising the heads of government of the other 27 member states. In law, the word “intention” cannot be interpreted as a final and irreversible decision. Legally, you may withdraw an intention, or change it, or transform it into a decision.
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Let us assume Mrs May invokes Article 50 on January 1 2017. Imagine that, one year later, the UK changes its mind, for whatever reason. This could be after a big political event such as the election of a new government, a new referendum or second thoughts about the decision to leave.Nothing in Article 50 would then prevent the UK from deciding, in conformity with its constitutional requirements, to withdraw its unilateral “intention”. In legal terms, this would stop the two-year clock, removing the possibility that Brexit would occur automatically after these two years. Paragraph 5 of Article 50 confirms this interpretation: an ex EU member state can be a candidate to rejoin but only after having withdrawn. If the intention to leave was withdrawn, the process would be interrupted and the status quo ante would prevail. The UK would still be in the club.
Even after triggering Article 50 and notifying the EU of its intention to leave, there is no legal obstacle to the UK changing its mind, in accordance with its constitutional requirements.
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The writer, a former director-general of the Council of the European Union’s Legal Service, is author of ‘If the UK Votes to Leave’
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