Someone asks:
"Vote leave has either lied or misled voters. IF there is no negotiated exit deal within 2 years of triggering of article 50, the UK is out, period. No deal applies. Membership ceases and UK rights under the treaties simply do not apply anymore. This is so UNLESS all 28 unanimously agree to extend the negotiation deadline. Now, someone tell me: who has got leverage here? The UK? I don't think so.
Something tells me Boris had not been made aware of this little detail. Of course, neither had any voters either. He has told you of course "they will want to deal" , but fact is - the irony - that he has no control over this process and that time plays against the UK. No wonder he is now looking worried and playing for time."
Another answers:
"It is an unusually clear piece of officialese. The two year limitation except by agreement of all members is why we have seen suggestions that Article 50 should not be triggered until as late as the end of 2017"
Someone asks:
"I see, and in the meantime you surely expect that everyone else will be ok with the UK taking their seat at the Council of Ministers and participating in decision-making as usual, right? On matters that will have effect after the UK leaves, right? "
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Sharing an interesting conversation I read somewhere else. Are we really sure the UK will not be affected until two years from now?
Also:
Marcus Weber and Joseph Daul, who head up the European People's Party - the parliament's largest group - said: "There cannot be any special treatment for the United Kingdom. The British people have expressed their wish to leave the EU. Leave means leave. The times of cherry-picking are over.”
"The EU cannot be taken hostage by a Tory leadership wrangle. We need an article 50 notification now." Guy Verhofstadt