Opinion: Parliament to Prime Minister Boris Johnson: You can't always get what you want (via latimesopinion)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than get an extension of Brexit, Britain’s long-running, messy divorce from the European Union.
But the request was reportedly sent, along with Johnson’s contention that an extension would “damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners.”As Johnson was failing to get the decision he wanted, outside Parliament, hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded a different kind of vote, a new referendum dubbed a People’s Vote on Brexit. The masses cheered the news that the exit deal was still in limbo.
“From Incredible Hulk to Incredible Sulk,” tweeted Guy Verhofstadt, the chief Brexit representative for the European Parliament, after Johnson pulled a no-show at a Brexit news conference in Luxembourg in September, leaving that nation’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel standing alone at the podium on live television. Nigel Farage, Brexit Party leader, later derided Bettel as a “pip-squeak.
On Saturday at least, Johnson adopted a tone of politesse in his appeal for a yes vote on the Brexit deal he had finalized with the EU Thursday. But deep opposition emerged along familiar lines. Brexit has already cost Britain $89 billion since the 2016 vote, according to one think tank. Another estimate of the cost once the divorce is final: $168 billion over the next 15 years. UK companies that trade with Europe are already being hit.
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