Brexit the economy and house prices part 7: Brexit Harder

ukcarper

It's petty, petty on his side and petty on other side as the object of letter has been achieved. Unfortunately that is what our parliament has become, to interested in point scoring.

lvader

It’s not petty, it is a deliberate ploy to avoid an extension, granted it might not work but it’s way to early to call it.

ukcarper

lvader wrote: »

It’s not petty, it is a deliberate ploy to avoid an extension, granted it might not work but it’s way to early to call it.

The second letter was that, not signing was petty as it's made no difference, the EU know Boris's thoughts on letter, he's made it clear enough and as normal they will behave in what they believe to be their best interest. Just as all the talk of court action is petty because the letter has achieved its aim and him not signing it has made no difference.

Sailtheworld

lvader wrote: »

He is following legal advice.

Cutting edge legal advice.

Maybe they advised him to cross his fingers behind his back too.

phillw

lvader wrote: »

He is following legal advice.

I'm not sure I buy that, if legally it's not supposed to make a difference. Sounds more like a desperate attempt to make him self look strong, but it makes him look really weak. When you have strength then you don't need these manipulative power plays.

His previous legal advice turned out to be flawed, let's see what happens this time.

The best thing is it's win-win, either he admits he broke the law or he admits that he sent the letter and so he can't backtrack later and say we can't extend because he never asked for it.

PaulW1965

Sailtheworld wrote: »

Cutting edge legal advice.

Maybe they advised him to cross his fingers behind his back too.

The same legal advice that told him proroguing parliament for 5 weeks was lawful...

Zero_Gravitas

lvader wrote: »

He is following legal advice.

I didn’t realise that Dominic Cummings was legally qualified

lvader

Legal advice to the PM comes from the attorney general, there is a. legal argument that has yet to play out that Parliament cannot force the PM to negotiate an extension. Its not guaranteed to work, but there could be a circumstance in which he didn’t break the law (Benn act) and an extension hasn’t been negotiated in a legal way.

waamo

If he wanted legal advice on Parliaments powers and his responsibilities he should have rang Gina Miller.

lvader

He kind of did, Lord Pannick has said that Boris is on the right side of the law on this occasion.