Your method would work in theory. But I'd like to emphasize that we'd be stretching the limits of what the judicative is allowed to do. It's not the ECJ's job to "interpret laws into a functioning state". I think we can safely say that A50 is inadequate in its current form under any interpretation. All the ECJ can do is safeguard the treaties as a whole and limit A50 for the time being until it is fixed. This period of time could very well take decades, so you may be practically correct, but I wouldn't rest on just the interpretation of a court and then go "Ok, as long as they decide like that, we don't have to fix it."
See, courts tend to change their minds once in a while. As legislative, you don't want that to happen without you saying in which direction they're allowed to change their minds.
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The EU (Barnier), knowing its customer, has already stated it would decide next week. They know the letter won't be in time to make a proper decision tomorrow. That's how low the EU thinks of the UK Government at the moment.
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Last week in the commons:
Today:In the absence of a deal, seeking such a short and, critically, one-off extension would be downright reckless and completely at odds with the position that this House adopted only last night, making a no-deal scenario far more, rather than less, likely.
Not lying is difficult.We [don't have a deal, and] are seeking a short, one-off extension.
Edit - thankfully it might not matter
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I don't see it. If this episode has shown us anything, it's that A50 is a danger to the integrity of the EU core. It's highly exceptional that any comprehensive set of basic rules for a governing body (and I'm just not calling it constitution, because there is a conscious effort not to call it constitution) has an article that allows leaving in the first place. This is unprecedented. And it is highly inadequate... the first draft of such a possibility, really. It should have never been written into the treaties like that. It's obviously half-baked and needs a lot more cooking before it's done.
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Well Maybot is speaking and it's found it's voice. It's leaving me totally flacid, probably the most disappointing thing I've seen (or heard I guess) all day.
Nah, he said it this morning. I think the EU isn't concerned with May anymore. I'm fairly certain all switches are set to no-deal at this stage. The EU is highly pragmatical. If a miracle happens, great. But who still thinks a miracle is possible at this point? The UK would have to cave completely. On everything.
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Define just who those "so many" are.
Cause I'm mostly seeing only fringe groups on the far right and far left still calling for the outright dismantlement of the EU. The more mainstream Euro-sceptics here have now moved over to rhetoric more in the line of "reform from within".
May killed the motion. Bercow stopped it because it was coming out that May was going to pull MV3 (probably until the day before Brexit) in order to get it through. No doubt MPs had been coming to Bercow and complaining that this was quite frankly bullshit and he quite rightly shut it down.
You can't take back control by ignoring the body that you are meant to be returning control to in the first place.
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Freaking USSR also held elections. Doesn't change that nobody was allowed to leave and no election was democratic. Remember Hungary? Poland? Tanks in the GDR? Nobody gives a shit what the USSR said or had. When will you get that into your head? Neither the USSR nor Russia are ever part of any discussion involving free will and democracy.
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Successful distraction of left-wingers with migrant issues, "anti-fa", and "globalism-is-good-for-everyone" after fall of USSR that put many of them in opposition to (less-educated) working class?
So working class went to right-wingers for solutions to their problems instead, even if they would prefer left-wing solutions they do need some solution to their plight, not "it's as good as it gets, stop struggling against it".
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In advance of that vote, I would be grateful if the European Council could therefore approve the supplementary documents that President Juncker and I agreed in Strasbourg, putting the Government in a position to bring these agreements to the House and confirming the changes to the Government's proposition to Parliament. I also intend to bring forward further domestic proposals that confirm my previous commitments to protect our internal market, given the concerns expressed about the backstop. On this basis, and in the light of the outcome of the European Council, I intend to put forward a motion as soon as possible under section 13 of the Withdrawal Act 2018 and make the argument for the orderly withdrawal and strong future partnership the UK economy, its citizens' security and the continent's future, demands.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47641357
You're repeating same thing now with clear attempt to punish anyone leaving or breaking ranks - like USSR did with Hungary, just with "tools of modern age".
If you'd had EU army you could quite possibly use that instead - but you don't.
"Leaving the Union clause" has little to do with "free will" or "democracy"; those are just trapping to give such decisions legitimacy in societies that already consider themselves democratic and free.
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Calling it now, it'll be rejected. Nothing in her letter indicates any change in her approach, any plan, any constructive idea on what to do with the extra time, any reason why an extension should be granted. Not even a mention of the pre-conditions the EU has set out: Referendum or GE. She wants to use this to put the same deal on the table again.
This letter has not got a snowball's chance in hell of getting her an extension. Sorry, remainers. You're truly fucked now. This was it. This was your one last chance. And May blew it.
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