Reuters: Opposition to block British PM Johnson's early election bid
LONDON (Reuters) - British opposition parties said on Friday that they would block Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s second bid to call an early general election in mid-October, setting up a showdown with the government over delaying Brexit.
Brexit remains up in the air more than three years after Britons voted to leave the EU in a 2016 referendum. Options range from a turbulent no-deal exit to abandoning the whole endeavour.
Johnson says he wants to take Britain out of the EU on Oct. 31 with or without a deal with the bloc. But he lost his parliamentary majority this week and expelled 21 lawmakers from his ruling Conservative Party’s group in parliament after they supported an opposition plan to try to bloc a no-deal exit.
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WNU Editor: This is why I like the Canadian parliamentary system. When the government loses confidence from the Parliament, an election is called. In the U.K. .... not so clear. The net result is the U.K. government is now in limbo, and if this continues I do not think the electorate is going to be forgiving. Brexit is an issue that clearly needs to be resolved by the electorate, but the opposition has a different idea.
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Independence from the EUSSR is in serious doubt. With parliament against the people a political vacuum has been created. Will political violence occur as it has in the past? I doubt it, the English are going quietly into the dark night. Britain has had its time & like the rest of the independent European countries is dying. It is being replaced by a massive country that will stretch from the Arctic to Africa & from the west coasts of Spain & Portugal to the Russian border. By the end of the century a single religion will be in place in Europe to keep the masses united and in line. With an over crowded EU, I wonder if in the future the EU army will march east to obtain living space?
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