Boris Says UK Has Crossed the ‘Brexit Finish Line’, Withdrawal Act Becomes Law

[jimnyc]

Congrats to Boris! And congrats to the British folks who supported this for so long.

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Boris Says UK Has Crossed the ‘Brexit Finish Line’, Withdrawal Act Becomes Law

The withdrawal agreement bill has been given Royal Assent, meaning it has become law and the UK will officially leave the EU on January 31st, 2020.

Deputy speaker Nigel Evans read out in the House of Commons on Thursday: “I have to announce to the House in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967 that Her Majesty has signified her Royal Assent to the following act: European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020,” meaning the bill has officially been signed into law.



https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...es-parliament/

[Drummond]

Congrats to Boris! And congrats to the British folks who supported this for so long.

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Boris Says UK Has Crossed the ‘Brexit Finish Line’, Withdrawal Act Becomes Law

The withdrawal agreement bill has been given Royal Assent, meaning it has become law and the UK will officially leave the EU on January 31st, 2020.

Deputy speaker Nigel Evans read out in the House of Commons on Thursday: “I have to announce to the House in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967 that Her Majesty has signified her Royal Assent to the following act: European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020,” meaning the bill has officially been signed into law.



https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...es-parliament/

THANK YOU, JIM !!

Very appreciated.

It's been a long, hard (ridiculously so) road to get to this point .. but at least, we have.

It's also been an instructive road. We've seen our 'Liberal' Democrat Party, take a line which said they'd crush Brexit if they ever gained the electoral power to do so (& to hell with the democratic decision, and all those voters who were a part of it). We had the Labour Party, who in their 2017 election manifesto said they were committed to respecting the Referendum vote, but did all they could since that time to kill off any and all progress towards seeing it enacted (saying that any Brexit had to have a deal attached ... then they voted against every deal in sight).

The forces of the Left, here .. even the most 'moderate' Left .. defied our electorate. All were given the caning of their lives in the December election, giving Boris a landslide victory ! Jo Swinson, leader of the LibDems, was even thrown out of her local constituency, the electorate there replacing her with a rival SNP candidate.

Our Conservatives respected democratic process, and the electorate. Forces from the Left, even the supposed 'moderate' Left, showed contempt for it.

DEMOCRACY WON OUT .. THOSE ACTING TO STALL, OR CRUSH IT, WERE DULY PUNISHED ....

.. and so, today, I'm proud of our People.

We've still got some negotiating to do, to see what our future trading relationship with EU countries will be, and ... I've no doubt that we'll get yet more 'shabby dealings' from them in the coming year. More wasted time ... more of being told what cannot be allowed, with scant all actually decided. Time will tell.

I look forward to our future trading relationship with America !

[Abbey Marie]

It sounds like a messy divorce where the couple work out the details and sign the papers, but the judge doesn't want to grant the decree.
@Drummond, in your mind, what is the main reason so many politicians are fighting getting BREXIT done? I tend to see money changing hands as the reason for almost all political bad behavior, but I don't know really know much about the EU.

[Kathianne]

It sounds like a messy divorce where the couple work out the details and sign the papers, but the judge doesn't want to grant the decree.

Drummond, in your mind, what is the main reason so many politicians are fighting getting BREXIT done? I tend to see money changing hands as the reason for almost all political bad behavior, but I don't know really know much about the EU.

I think it's more about power, where money is always involved too. EU leadership feels they are a moral counter to the evil, but wealthy and productive US.

[Drummond]

It sounds like a messy divorce where the couple work out the details and sign the papers, but the judge doesn't want to grant the decree.
@Drummond, in your mind, what is the main reason so many politicians are fighting getting BREXIT done? I tend to see money changing hands as the reason for almost all political bad behavior, but I don't know really know much about the EU.

Kathianne makes good points. The EU does see itself as a rival 'power' to the US ... and anti-Trump-ism plays its part, too.

Identify and list those who've voiced any opposition to Brexit in the British Establishment, then identify and list those who've worked so hard, and so unashamedly, to actively derail Brexit, and have had no interest in heeding the Referendum vote. I'd challenge anyone to spot differences between the two lists.

Brexit exists as the expression of those who want the UK to determine its own fate, which means that its people actively determine that fate. Opposition to Brexit is fundamentally an expression of denial of any control of that fate, and instead, abdication of it in favour of, outright deference to, EU rule.

There's the dimension of the psychology of those who have defied the Will of the People, as expressed in the 2016 Referendum result, that it's fundamental to consider. Their brand of politics is one which is fundamentally geared to leading people, not listening and being led BY them. The EU functions to rule its Member States .. the European Parliament was created and functions for precisely that purpose. Power flowing from the top down, not from grassroots to Establishment entities, is the 'name of the game' to these people.

Bear in mind that the EU is a mutated entity ... originally just the EEC, a trading confederation, lacking any power-wielding machinery, such as a Parliament. The European Parliament, to say nothing of the European Court of Human Rights, each evolved as entities filling what was originally a power-vacuum. Wielding power, where before, that didn't happen, is what they're for.

Applying power is the whole point.

[Abbey Marie]

Unfortunately, expanding power seems to be the goal for almost anyone who tastes it’s fruits.

[Drummond]

Unfortunately, expanding power seems to be the goal for almost anyone who tastes it’s fruits.

Basically true, unfortunately. Even so ... what makes a Socialist / 'Leftie' distinctly bad in that context is the simple fact that the creed itself is designed for the mass application of power. Possibly there are those who'd argue otherwise; nonetheless, you can't apply the creed to any society in any other way.

An individual tempted to expand power is one corrupted by that power. But, a Socialist will work towards that as a reality, thinking it to be a self-meriting process. That's what makes Socialist power-mongers especially dangerous, and especially deserving of the utmost resistance to what they seek, and what they do.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

HPD brought up a very relevant and important action to take as soon as possible. Giving up guns, giving up home defense by its occupants is never a good idea imho.
I trust me to defend my home -as cops show up after the carnage.
I'd rather the carnage to have been wrought upon the attackers of my home/family, rather than the carnage being wrought upon its rightful occupants. For that to be possible my home must have guns and a person very well trained how to use them!
I started shooting at age 6.. March this year will be 60 years since I learned and I am by any standard a truly exceptional marksman/hunter. When young late teens and early twenties I gambled with friends in competitions shooting for bets. I never lost...
Even at long range shooting or short ranger with pistols..
Here in the South in my time/era--we were raised on guns at early age.. Learning to shoot even before learning to ride a bike or swim..
I pray you guys get your guns back my friend... As my best bet is-- you are going to need them in the future..--Tyr