Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
I think more fuss in being made of the court decision than is necessary. If I was PM I wouldn't even bother with the appeal.

Table a vote on Article 50. Article 50 is not he process, as Moley alluded to, they haven't even got on the pitch yet and Article 50 is just the starting whistle.

The Labour MPs, such as Nandy last night on QT, have said they respect the referendum result and will not block article 50.

To continue the analogy, Parliament can discuss how the negotiation is going somewhere in early 2018 at the half-time whistle and if they don't like it, consider a substitution and/or a change of formation(General Election).

I am 100% sure that the EU will not give a running commentary. The Council will negotiate and only when completed will the sovereign parliaments of Belgium, Denmark, Latvia...... be told what the deal is and get a chance to vote on it.

If the PM does trigger an article 50 vote and Parliament blocks it, then she will have a gloves of Election and a re-shaped Parliament. It would delay the process a few months at best.
I kind of like the idea of an election. Theresa May would have the same problems though - to win votes, she'd have to explain what the f*ck 'brexit means brexit' means. Either way now, with a bit of luck and with or without an election, we won't just launch into brexit without some sort of strategy and broad intention being revealed to a reasonable extent. People keep bashing on about the referendum giving a 'true' democratic decision on leaving the EU and, yep, even though it was only a 17:16:13 win (the 13 being ambivalent non-voters), I agree that its right that we follow through (although its a ridiculously small minded and stupid thing to do ). But those thinking that brexit was just a simple on-off light switch had/have their heads in cloud cuckoo land; its much more of a dimmer switch where we all have to agree a balanced amount of light required (haha crap analogy stretched to its limit).