Senior Officials: ‘Difficult To Imagine’ An EU Decision On Brexit Extension On Friday, EU Likely To Wait Until Monday

The UK Labour party's home affairs spokeswoman was out with some comments in the last hour, via Reuters, saying that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson's call for an election is 'bogus'. We need to know first what kind of Brexit extension we get, the spokeswoman added further.(fxstreet).

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EU fed up with being gamed by Johnson.
Now they are gaming him.

You mean they haven't been consistently gaming May and Johnson up until now? Really? wow - now that's a revelation!!!!!

Think Macron is digging his heels in.

Just tell him, France will pick up the 35B shortfall if UK crashes out with no deal.

To put it in a nutshell, the UK begged now for the FOURTH time for an extension. Does anybody really still believe the Uk wants to leave at all ?

Why extend, what for, until when, what's the point really.

An election ? Leave and THEN hold your election, that's not our problem.

Kick out the UK next Thursday, if they won't leave we make them leave !

Get Brexit done !

"Begged"? Johnson would have been in contempt of court had he not sent the letter drafted by parliament lawyers asking for an extension that was forced on him by the "remainer" parliament. To show his contempt, he sent an unsigned photocopy of the letter that asked for the extension accompanied by a second letter that requested that the EU not grant an extension. Get your facts straight, that is hardly "begging"? Our government will be very happy if the EU doesn't grant an extension. It's the parliament with the assistance of EU "forces" that are trying to keep the UK in the failing EU. The EU is falling apart slowly and the UK is far better of out of your totally undemocratic ailing fiefdom. I'm with you on one thing though - "Get Brexit done !"

3.5 years to get absolutely nowhere. This shows the true colors of politics and these sworn individuals who are suppose to be working for the public.

Does this mean more taxes to the french citizens?

No . Just angry Brit folk who think that loss of their net 9b a year contribution is of any material significance to a bloc of 27 nations with a combined GDP of €16Trillion+ (sans UK) trying to make a point. Dont really understand the asymmetry of the situation.

Honestly Ross. If I cherry picked statistics, finding the biggest number I could to compare with the smallest I could find, you'd be all over it like a rash. Shame on you for descending into such cheap statistical manipulation...

Complete BS. The anger stems from the fact that the UK government/parliament over the past 3 years haven't followed the wishes of the majority of the country that voted to leave the EU. Nothing more, nothing less. The problem has been that the MPs representing many areas that voted to leave actually themselves wanted to remain in the EU. Circa 75%+ of the MPs in the houses of parliament want to remain in the EU, despite the fact that their constituents voted to leave the EU. It's a classic case of the governing powers thinking that the decision the people made to leave the EU was wrong. That the people didn't realise or understand the complexity of the situation. They may well have been correct in this assumption but nevertheless, David Cameron offered the country an "in/out" referendum that asked the question "Do you want to leave or remain in the EU". More people voted to leave. Simple as that. Three years later, we are still in the EU because the governing powers in the UK didn't like that result and have gone out of their way to thwart it. So, the assertion you made is completely bogus. Yes, a number of "Brit folk" are angry but it's certainly got nothing to do with what they feel about the value of the UK's financial contribution to the EU! From your vernacular, you sound like a Yank and in that case, you surely should understand that the frustration of "Brit folk" is that a democratic decision made by the majority has been ignored, undermined and frustrated by the political classes, given that the USA, until recently has done it's best to enforce democracy and freedom around the world (as long as it served the interest of the USA).

We all know that won't happen Barkie.
EU want a deal done, no deal is bad for you all.
UK won't be going anywhere next week.

I suspect they won't be going anywhere at all, the UK will end up being stuck with the EU...

Its very simple only 4-5 countries will pick up the majority of that bill should spending continue at that same level and no rule change...
Germany picking up the vast majority assuming their economy doesn't nose dive further losing one of its biggest customers on tariffs.

Add it all up all you like ,500 million people ,yea yea
half those countries only receive money ,and no more than 5 of the top names trade with the Uk

who's going to fund that paltry xxxxx billion