UK's 2 options: a fake or no Brexit
The latter is possible by revoking Britain's withdrawal notice under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.
London
SINCE last year's Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom has been likened to a suicide who jumps off a 100-storey building and, as he falls past the 50th floor, shouts "so far, so good". This comparison is unfair to suicides. The real economic and political message today is "so far, so bad".
The "deal" to begin negotiations for a post-Brexit relationship, announced at the EU summit on Dec 15, followed Prime Minister Theresa May's capitulation on all of the demands made by European leaders: 50 billion euros (S$80 billion) of budget contributions, European court jurisdiction over the rights of EU citizens in Britain, and a permanently open border with Ireland.
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