Johnson Requests an Extension from the EU - Brexit Explained
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- Published on Oct 21, 2019
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Despite promising for months that the UK would leave the EU on the 31st October; this weekend Parliament forced Johnson to ask for an extension to the deadline. However, Johnson went some way to get around this, by sending three letters to the EU including one where he laid out how much he disliked the idea of an extension. In this video, we explain exactly what happened, and discuss the legality of Johnson's move.
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What happened to your voice?
Content on this channel is getting repetitive...
No if's no buts. Very impressive stuf.
If this happened in normal country Benn act itself would ve illegal As it violates Basic human right to free speech... But UK Is a ahithole when IT comes to human rights
General Elections! Let’s get rid of the remoaning traitors! They have had their chance to vote for a deal. Now they didn’t, we can bring in some refreshment... Brexit Party! Once Farage has delivered Brexit, we can vote Labour and Tory again.
I have been listening to stories of post Brexit societal melt down for 3 years now. I can't wait any longer. I will run amok this weekend.
only a few yeara ago that party was lead by Cameron and now by this buffoon... if brexit achieved anything is to destroy any semblance of respectability in the UK's consertvatives
Yes no, maybe... I don't know
Can you repeat the question?
31st October is now dead in a ditch, poor Boris the man is a bloody disaster in regard to predictions, why promise things you can't deliver?
Coward MP's forced Boris to get an extension... The same Coward MP's would won't ask for a General Election... LEAVE MEANS LEAVE
Bring back Jack! Jack's narration is the perfect mix of seriousness and "this is insane"! Ben is too serious and not as fun.
Fu** Brexit
Boris Screwed The Public over there was me thinking he had a Plan does he fuck! He Would Have Got More Respect For Braking The Law....
Highest degree of masonry at its finest
so is he dead in a ditch yet?
Loving watching this clown slowly dissolve.
Just leave
so much for getting brexit done
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There are people who claim, quite reasonably, that the UK essentially didn't do anything to deserve another extension from the EU. Well, the UK political class sure doesn't deserve anything by this point, except maybe an overthrow, but the perspectve of the EU is a bit more nuanced, as always.
See, contrary to what many people for various reasons say, the EU is concerned with people first and foremost. The idiocy of UK's referendum, of what transpired after it and of Brexit itself is not a fault of the UK's citizens, or at least not directly. It is mainly the fault of the UK's broken (or way-one-sided-disfunctionally-archaic-in-need-of-several-updates, if you will) political system, that favours only conservative politicians (no matter what party they're in) and decades of blaming "the EU", "the Europe" or "the Brussels" for any hard political measure the politicians chose to make (no matter whether the EU had anything to do with it or not).
So the UK's citizens are not to blame and almost none of them voted for wild exit (no deal Brexit) anyways. It would be immoral to kick them down off the cliff, just because they got kidnapped by maniacs. It would be akin to nuking entire Syria just to get rid of the ISIL.
And than there is the other, probably even more important issue: It is true, that the UK will be economically hit the hardest by any Brexit, not to mention No Deal, but they are by n means the only ones. The Republic of Ireland will be hit extremely bad and several other countries within the EU will feel the harm for a decade at least. The overall EU economy will be damaged as well.
Thererefore there is little incentive for the EU to kill off the negotiations, if it only does harms everyone. The short term childish satisfaction of punishing the UK that might be felt by many, doesn't even begin to balance the damage that it would do to both sides.
I will even risk sounding like a "leftist ideological conspiration theorist" but the only partiesthat would truly benefit the no deal brexit are the following:
>> the ultra-rich that have their funds managed in the UK or it's oversea territories, that are the ones behind the whole idea of NoDeal Brexit, and who are doing their best to avoid the EU tax-evasion laws to be implemented in the UK by 2020, as scheduled;
>> the Russian Federation, that always gains geopolitically by weakening the EU or the USA;
>> the USA, because the EU will be a somewhat weaker partner to them and the UK will be economically literally at their mercy;
>> maybe China, economically, depending on how the industries cope with the chaos.
There is still time to revoke Article 50...
What a circus. Most people know the truth anyway. The UK Political class never accepted the result of the referendum in the first place and have always tried to sabotage it. To be fair I don’t think this is necessarily the EU’s fault, it’s the fault of UK politicians trying to have your cake and eat it with this “close and special arrangement” exit. Either you’re in the EU or you’re not... WTO, then hopefully FTA as soon as possible. If you want to have a review in 5-10 years time, fine, but at least get brexit done properly first....
Just saying Johnson *could* have circumvented the benn act by resigning. :P
I wonder if he had to que up at the post office . Or did he go to the self service.
Can't Johnson be censured for lying to Parliament when he said he wouldn't send the letter?
Hey tldrnews guys, I thought you might want to know that your podcast isn't updating on podbean...
Is 5 years not long enough for you ?
Boo-een
That’s totally legal. No where in the law did it say anything about Johnson sending a letter saying he was kidding. He sent the original letter instructed by the law so he didnt do anything wrong
They should specify. If a law is vague and has and has to be interpreted that’s their own bloody fault isn’t it
You don't know the phrase "spirit of the law" do you?
Bretards have no mandate or other rights to sink businesses and the economy. Until just one person in a senior government role can demonstrate that there are economic advantages no deal Brexit won't happen.
There is no investment in the UK anymore and this will have far reaching consequences to all people, not just remainers and Leave.
And Brexit hasn't happened in any form. Johnson's deal is an insult to MPs and the public. Where are all the deals Fox et al wanked on about.
Project Here is there for all to see. For fucks sake listen to your captains of industry other than that pub owner.
It may be nasty now but imagine the reality of no subsidies, no research grants, no offsets. The 39 billion pounds is incorrect, it is gross, these elements are subtracted leaving about 18 billion. That 36 was Project Bretard, nothing more.
In a way I wish that a no deal happened. It would show Mogg, Johnson Farage et al are frauds enriching themselves only.
Brexit has lost any meaning, people are sick of it. It needs killing.
You do realize your juvenile use of the word "Bretards" completely removes any legitimacy you might have had to participate in the conversation, right? Grow up.
MPs did not vote to 'delay brexit', they voted to pass the Letwin Amendment, which does not server the purpose of 'delaying Brexit'.
Also, Johnson has not gone against 'the spirit of the law', he has broken the law. This is an exact quote from the Benn Act: "The Prime Minister must seek to obtain from the European Council an extension". That is very clear, he must *actively seek* an extension, not just send a letter.
Could you explain why BJ is in such a rush to get Brexit done? I heard it is to avoid the new EU tax-avoidance laws, which will be implemented next year, which I'll guess will stir up a lot of dirt for the most wealthy in the UK.
Can't think of any other benefit a Brexit would bring, The Misguided common-folk will be poorer, the NHS will be bought up by the USA, and Schotland and Northern Ireland will want to leave little England and their Empirial UK dream asap
Which leaves Little england, dreaming to be a Tax-haven, just ofshore close to a really powerfull tradeblock. Just like Hong Kong.
Boris and his backers will be safe,..Unless the folks in the UK wake up.
I wish you wisdom and a second referendum,
Regards.
Breaking news next morning: Prime Minister found dead in a ditch near London this morning
Day 2546465657576566665434 of brexit.
We are still in stalemate... Nothing has happened.
Still
What about the third letter? You did not go through this one in more detail as anticipated at 2:13
Okay, listen, this is just fucking ridiculous at this point, can we please just force a general election or people's vote? The public doesn't want this shit anymore, they don't want brexit and they sure as shit don't want more fumbling and incompetence from the various governments for the nth time since the vote. It's been 3 fkn years for god's sake, can they not see that this isn't working?
If you keep trying to do something and keep failing. Don't do it again (common sense!)
Am I dumb or did they not talk about the third letter?
Parliament must send an envoy to Brussels expressing a request for the extension
In the mean time parliament must move to jail Boris
Jail Boris
Love Boris sending a photocopy 😁😁😁
"It's... it's not like we want an extension or anything baka"
Very disappointing this didn't start the new tradition of ritually executing incompliant PMs to be finally draped in a ditch.
Imagine received two letters one contradicting the other
i mean i'm sure they expected it to happen so i doubt it was very confusing when it did
Did BoJo not shout very often and lozdly, that 'great' britain will leave at October the 31th?
Well, you should not take a clown serious.
What a shit-show.
I really feel bad for the people of Scotland and the occupied part of Ireland.
Don't let them do that to you!
Declare independence!
Reunite!
🇪🇺 ❤ 💪 ✌ 🇮🇪
Do or die October 31. Hahahahaha.. hahahahaha... hahahahaha.....
Wrong. Boris didn't write the first letter, it was photocopied from the template created for the Benn Act, the only thing he added were quotation marks at the beginning and end.
Well done Boris you clever man. Showed all the remoaning snowflakes in parliament right up 🤣
If i were the eu i would grant the uk a 2 year extension just to annoy boris lol
Well, EU's stance has been and is that extensions are ok long as they are used to achieve something... 😂
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Boris Johnson has been pushed in a corner by disgraceful, undemocratic, dishonourable pigs in parliament. It's a good job I'm not him cos I'm so angry that I'd probably whip them all with my belt. It's absolutely disgusting. If they had worked with the government to prepare for no deal instead of blocking them at every turn, then we would be prepared for any outcome. I'd rather live under a dictatorship than have any of them in power. The bellends. It's not Johnson, or Brexit that is endangering this country, it's a government that refuses to work for the people.
Johnson requested an extension so he lied again. It is time for the ditch Mr. Johnson.
Shut up snowflake
Explained:
Boris Johnson is a puppet dictator put it there by Hedge funds(Rupert Murdoch and others betting staggering amounts of money on Brexit)planning to rig next General Elections
anti-semetic dog whistling? really? what is the RT's comment section?
And about the cover letter?
BJ broke the law by not signing the letter. The law asked him to send the letter. Without a signature, a letter is not a letter. It could have been sent by anybody.
Hungary will veto extension
I hope so, it seems UK is not capable to leave by them selves so maybe EU should do it for them.
i cant imagine how depressing it is not living in the uk
@Star Gazer its ok
I don't live in the uk and I'm not depressed about it. Commas make all the difference.
How can the official position of a global superpower be "can we have a brexit extension please (but no not really)"?
It’s not possible to violate the ‘spirit of the law’ so not sure why Boris would be brought to court. Only thing I can think of is intentional disruption by the opposition because they’re sore losers and have been for over three years now.
> It’s not possible to violate the ‘spirit of the law’
You don't really believe that do you? It is perfectly possible. Laws are often enforced based on obvious intent. Unless he is going to claim that is he is fence post stupid and did not understand the intent of the law he does not have a chance.
Brexit is no longer the main issue at stake, but how to get ride off that bloody psycho once and for all. Hope he gets to that ditch.