diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > May being duplicit as usual. From the Guardian > Live feed... > Therefore, the house has to understand and accept > that, if it is not willing to support a deal in > the coming days, and as it is not willing to > support leaving without a deal on 29 March, then > it is suggesting that there will need to be a much > longer extension to article 50. Such an extension > would undoubtedly require the United Kingdom to > hold European parliament elections in May 2019.'' > > In other words, May now appears to be poised to > ask for a short extension of the kind that she > told MPs last week would not be on offer if the > deal were not passed. But where on Earth does she get the idea she would be even granted a long extension and for what purpose? Come next week if she loses another vote on her deal, then it's got to be No Deal or Article 50 being revoked.