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Bad Dog

(2,044 posts) Mon Nov 28, 2016, 06:24 AM Nov 2016

Brexit: Legal battle over UK's single market membership [View all]

From the BBC.

The government is facing a legal battle over whether the UK stays inside the single market after it has left the EU, the BBC has learned.

Lawyers say uncertainty over the UK's European Economic Area membership means ministers could be stopped from taking Britain out of the single market.

They will argue the UK will not leave the EEA automatically when it leaves the EU and Parliament should decide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38126899

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Brexit: Legal battle over UK's single market membership [View all] Bad Dog Nov 2016 OP

The most important sentence of the article: DetlefK Nov 2016 #1

And it will be up to 'the enemies of the people' to decide. Bad Dog Nov 2016 #4

I beginning to wonder if Britain will ever really leave the EU Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #2

Like Trump's victory nobody thought this would happen. Bad Dog Nov 2016 #3

right-- and how much is it costing you? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #5

God only knows. Bad Dog Nov 2016 #6

wow! Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #7

The Leave camp are vehemently opposed to such a thing. Bad Dog Nov 2016 #9

Yipes shenmue Nov 2016 #8