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Originally Posted by Chris
If that were the case, presumably they’d be doing it now, as some had speculated? I actually thought they would to be honest after the week they’ve had, but possibly they think something will come out of COP this weekend to distract everyone.
The debate over Art.16 on this forum has recently tilted towards whether they will actually do it at all, and particularly this week, whether an open letter from some congress members in America has stopped them. Research and reporting from Kuenssberg at the BBC suggests they do fully intend to proceed, and that Art.16 was the strategy from the outset. It’s just a matter of timing.
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They can use nationalism as a distraction by generating headlines with nationalistic hubris by speculating. This has the obvious benefit of not actually triggering Article 16 or dealing with consequences that would entail.
Four weeks of will they/won’t they will distract from corruption/Covid more effectively than triggering A16 now.