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Originally Posted by Damien
It's also pretty stupid tactically to intentionally attempt to provoke 48% of people who voted Remain.
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The leave side didn't take this to the high court, remain did (Gina Miller). Leave aren't proposing terms that are identical to us staying in, in all but name, remain are (Nick Clegg). Leave aren't trying to get the govt to disclose it's thinking and planning prematurely, leave are.
Who's provoking who?
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Article 50 may have already been triggered
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The man behind a fresh Brexit legal case says there is ample evidence to suggest that the UK government has already triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
"If you look at the terms of Article 50 itself, one of the terms is there has to be a decision and there has to be notification. The government's position is there has been a decision. So, what you're left with is the requirement that there be notification. We know that in October Theresa May met with her fellow leaders at an EU council meeting and told them we were leaving. Now, there's no requirement in Article 50 that notification must be served on heavy watermarked paper. There is no requirement for formality at all.
"If you then cast your net more widely and you look around at the surrounding circumstances, you can see that the EU are now meeting privately without us. Article 50 says this is something that is not supposed to happen until after we have triggered it. If you look at the fact that the EU has appointed negotiators — that's something that's not supposed to happen until after we have triggered Article 50. If you look at the fact they've formulated their negotiating strategy — that's something that shouldn't happen until after you trigger Article 50.
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