By Ben Kerrigan-
British prime minister, Theresa May says calls to delay Article 50 solves nothing, and will not deliver a decision or deal in parliament.
Ms May has been been subjected to a tough ordeal in delivering on Brexit, after EU chiefs designed a framework they were expected to know most Mps will reject. Ministers on all sides of parliament have fiercely debated the Brexit deal offered by the EU for months, with Brexit dominating the news ever since the controversial British referendum was held in 2016. Resignations have resulted from the sour dispute between the parties on a matter of historical importance that can determine the future of the British people for generations to come.
Brexit needs a workable solution, and it needs to arrive sooner rather than later. If they can’t deliver this within the next month, the chances of a resolution emerging within any prescribed delayed period is slim.
The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29. However, the prime minister once again delayed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal this week in order to head off another heavy defeat. The British prime minister has recently extended the voting date by Mps to March 12th,jut 17 days before Britain is due to crash out without a deal.er government to rule out leaving the EU without a deal, as European Diplomats considering delaying Brexit by up to two years.The European parliament’s Brexit chief Guy Verhofstadt branded her decision to postpone the Commons ballot “one of the most reckless” he had ever seen, accusing Ms May of “kicking the can down the road
Ms May is under increasing pressure to comply with suggestions to extend the official leaving date of the Uk from the European Union, but finds it an unnecessary move.
CONSTRUCTIVE
Today, Ms May told reporters at the close of the EU summit in Egypt that she has had constructive conversations will allies in the EU-Arab summit in Egypt. May said Mps may be asked to agree a revised deal before it is agreed by the EU
Her comments came as EU council president , Donald Tusk, appeared to support the idea of an extension to Article 50, which he described as a “rational solution”, as there was no majority in the House of Commons to approve Theresa May’s Brexit deal.
“I believe that in the situation we are in, an extension would be a rational decision but prime minister May still believes she will be able to avoid this scenario,” Tusk told a news conference in Egypt a day after seeing the British leader.
She said she also held “good” meetings with fellow EU leaders over Brexit, and that the UK team will return to Brussels tomorrow for further negotiations. When asked why she was resisting a delay to Brexit beyond March 29, Mrs May said: “An extension to Article 50, a delay in this process, doesn’t deliver a decision in Parliament, it doesn’t deliver a deal. All it does is precisely what the word ‘delay’ says.
“Any extension of Article 50 isn’t addressing the issues.
“We have it within our grasp. I’ve had a real sense from the meetings I’ve had here and the conversations I’ve had in recent days that we can achieve that deal.
“It’s within our grasp to leave with a deal on March 29 and that’s where all of my energies are going to be focused.
Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has also put his weight behind a ”long extension”, which he said would be better than the disastrous consequences of a no deal
a “long extension”, suggesting that it would be better than the disastrous consequences of a no-deal.
At the same meeting Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte warned that Britain was “sleep walking into no deal scenario” and that as the UK’s “best friends” EU countries were urging Britain to “wake up”.