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jedwards@businessinsider.com (Jim Edwards)

Business Insider UK - ‎22‎ ‎July‎ ‎2016

There's a loophole in Article 50 that lets Britain back into the EU whenever we want


http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBuCmTZ?a=1&m=en-gb

mercalia wrote:taken from Windows 10 News app

jedwards@businessinsider.com (Jim Edwards)

Business Insider UK - ‎22‎ ‎July‎ ‎2016

There's a loophole in Article 50 that lets Britain back into the EU whenever we want


http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBuCmTZ?a=1&m=en-gb

No there isn't. What article 50 says it that a country can withdraw the application to leave at any time before the end of the 2 year leaving process.

pete75 wrote:

mercalia wrote:taken from Windows 10 News app

jedwards@businessinsider.com (Jim Edwards)

Business Insider UK - ‎22‎ ‎July‎ ‎2016

There's a loophole in Article 50 that lets Britain back into the EU whenever we want


http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBuCmTZ?a=1&m=en-gb

No there isn't. What article 50 says it that a country can withdraw the application to leave at any time before the end of the 2 year leaving process.

disagree with the author not me as was a quote Its just a headline idea anyway

As designed the EU gives you every chance to stay.

So yes, once we are out we are out. But invoking article 50 isn't that point..

It does mean that we can extend that negotiating period beyond two years if needed. Because we can either cancel and re invoke A/50, or are much more likely to get unanimous approval to extend it conventionally.

It also somewhat reduces the weakness of the negotiating position. Just make sure to invoke it less than two years before a GE, then it can easily be revoked by the next lot...

mercalia wrote:

pete75 wrote:

mercalia wrote:taken from Windows 10 News app

jedwards@businessinsider.com (Jim Edwards)

Business Insider UK - ‎22‎ ‎July‎ ‎2016

There's a loophole in Article 50 that lets Britain back into the EU whenever we want


http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBuCmTZ?a=1&m=en-gb

No there isn't. What article 50 says it that a country can withdraw the application to leave at any time before the end of the 2 year leaving process.

disagree with the author not me as was a quote Its just a headline idea anyway

The author doesn't say there's a loophole to get back into the EU whenever we want. The people doing that are the headline writer and yourself seemingly from a misunderstanding of what the article actually says.

Nothing to stop rejoining again under the terms of article 49 though.

The "rescind Article 50" during the 2 year negotiation report is cropping up in several places. also apparently the French government have been advised of this by their own lawyers

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/05/brexit-can-go-ahead-without-parliament-vote-article-50-government-lawyers-say half way down the report wrote:At a separate hearing of the Treasury select committee, leading constitutional lawyers revealed that the French government legal service has informed the French government that the UK would be entitled to rescind a notice to withdraw even though it had invoked article 50.

Ian