On 4/7/16, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: >Is this right? The PM resigned, and then the Brexit leaders in his party, >Johnson and Gove, said they are not interested in the job,
Not true. Michael Gove is standing for election as leader of the Conservative Party, which effectively means Prime Minister, given that they are in power at the moment. He stands a very slim chance. >leaving the >field open to a steon Remain Supporter. The other contenders are a mixture of Remain and Leave supporters. The favourite is Theresa May, Remain. >Farange, who started it all, said >"My work here is done," and resigned the leadershipof his party., but >remains a member of the European Parliament. This is true. He's been going a long time as UKIP leader and has fulfilled one of his ambitions. He was never elected a UK Member of Parliament, and there is only one serving UKIP MP. >The Labour Leader won't quit, >so everyone else in his party leadership quit instead. Jeremy Corbyn is the Labour (and therefore opposition) leader. Many Labour MPs feel he is unelectable (q.v.) and want a change of leader. Corbyn has a vast support of the Labour Party membership, but alas no the Parliamentary Labour Party (the Labour MPs) which is an untenable situation. The honourable thing for him to do would be to step down but he is having non of it. He will be ousted shortly - there is no way he can continue without the support of the PLP. > No one on either >side of the referendum made any plans for what to do if Leave won, and the >current PM refuses to do anything, leaving it up to his successor, who may >be opposed to leaving. David Cameron, the current Conservative PM has stated that he feels he is unable to lead the UK out of the EU, and so is stepping down. His total convictions were to remain in the EU. There is an argument that he should have stayed on to fight for the best deal in withdrawing from the EU, but he has served one previous term as PM, as well as the current term and has previously publicly stated that he does not wish to seek a third term of office. I think his actions are fully understandable in the circumstances. >Europe wants Britain to leave now, but Britain >refuses to do anything. This is simply not true and these are dangerous words. The above statement is a non-sequitur. The UK leaving the EU is a lengthy process, not previously attempted by any country. The process starts by the UK PM going to the EU Parliament and invoking 'Article 50' which is a trigger to begin a 2 year process, at the end of which the UK is then no longer a member of the EU. During this 2 years, negotiations would take place to secure terms of the withdrawal. It simply cannot be done overnight. There is no time limit on when the start of the process happens. The current PM has stated that the next PM will have to do this. Realistically I think this will happen some time in 2017. > Even if they do, the Scots may have veto power >over the UK's withdrawal, and everyone in Northern Ireland appears to be >applying for Irish passports. I have not heard of this. There will be issues with Scotland and northern Ireland. The whole thing could collapse though under certain conditions. For instance, if a general election is called and (say) a new Labour Leader (who would be effectively campaigning to be PM) stood on a pro-EU ticket promising a turnaround stance on the EU - effectively saying if you vote us in, we cancel the referendum result - and that party won the election, then a clear (new) mandate will have been given and thus a new incoming government will have authority to cancel the U pullout (as long as that is done *before* Article 50 is started). This is entirely possible. 13 million people did not use the vote in the UK EU referendum. I suspect most if those were Remain supporters who clearly thought they wouldn't need to vote because it would be a walkover. Even if less than half utilised their vote, the outcome would have been different. If they then use that vote in a new pro-EU govt, then that's all it takes. HTH. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Production ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
