{"id":21269,"date":"2016-06-25T13:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2016-06-25T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:33:27","slug":"not-so-fast-scotland-and-northern-ireland-may-have-brexit-veto-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21269","title":{"rendered":"Not So Fast: Scotland And Northern Ireland May Have Brexit Veto Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not So Fast: Scotland And Northern Ireland May Have Brexit Veto Rights<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Two days after the shocking Brexit result, the nightmares for the Remain camp – which refuses to accept a democratic reality – will not go away. As a result, it has gotten to the farcical point where disgruntled Remain voters have\u00a0launched a petition demanding\u00a0<\/a>a second EU referendum, having clearly forgotten that it was the dramatically low turnout among their ranks that allowed the Leave vote to have such a knockout victory. To be sure this is a well-known technocrat approach: keep voting and\u00a0re<\/em>voting until the desired outcome is finally achieved.<\/div>\n
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We doubt this particular approach has any hope of success. We also doubt that a call by Labor MP David Lammy, urging for a vote in Parliament to “stop this madness”<\/strong><\/em>, the madness in question being the will of the majority, which clearly is not appreciated by a member of a “democratically” elected institution. One can spend all day analyzing the amusing ironies in that statement.<\/p>\n

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Wake up. We do not have to do this. We can stop this madness through a vote in Parliament. My statement below<\/p>\n

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However, while these are merely desperation antics by a group who will do almost anything to hang on to the benefits presented to them by the status quo, regardless of the will of the majority, a curious observation has emerged courtesy of\u00a0Jim Fitzpatrick<\/a>, who points out that according to the 28-page government Command Paper laying out “The Process of withdrawing from the European Union<\/a>“,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>which goes through the infamous Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), the first time in history when Article 50 will be invoked,\u00a0there may actually be a hurdle to the actual Brexit process, in the form of a Scottish and Northern Irish veto to Britain’s separation from the EU.\u00a0<\/strong>To wit:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Not So Fast: Scotland And Northern Ireland May Have Brexit Veto Rights Two days after the shocking Brexit result, the nightmares for the Remain camp – which refuses to accept a democratic reality – will not go away. As a result, it has gotten to the farcical point where disgruntled Remain voters have\u00a0launched a petition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[5582,93,279,281,284,1512,672,706,4318],"class_list":["post-21269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-ireland","tag-referendum","tag-scotland","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21270,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions\/21270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}