Draft Brexit deal reached more than two years since divisive vote

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

London (CNN) — British and European Union negotiators have agreed on a draft Brexit deal, UK Prime Minister Theresa May's office said, more than two years after the country voted in a divisive referendum to withdraw from the bloc.

May has called an emergency Cabinet meeting for Wednesday to discuss the draft deal, her office announced, after months of tortuous negotiations and marathon talks in recent days.

A Downing Street spokesman said that the Cabinet would meet at 2 p.m. local time to "consider the draft agreement the negotiating teams have reached in Brussels, and to decide on next steps. Cabinet Ministers have been invited to read documentation ahead of that meeting."

May's rocky premiership has hung on reaching a Brexit deal. She had hoped to strike a draft agreement by this week to have any hope of getting the deal through the required ratification processes by the time Britain leaves the EU at the end of March.

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By Angela Dewan, Luke McGee and Bianca Nobilo, CNN
Updated 1733 GMT (0133 HKT) November 13, 2018


Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/13/uk/brexit-deal-reached-intl/index.html

[VMA131Marine]

1. It seems this deal will be unlikely to survive a vote in Parliament

The DUP and ERG will almost certainly oppose it.

and as I typed that, here is the latest Guardian Headline

Brexit deal: Labour, Tory Brexiters and DUP line up against May – Politics live

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/nov/13/brexit-deal-within-next-48-hours-still-possible-but-not-at-all-definite-says-lidington-politics-live

[jon k]

4. It won't survive

The Brits seem bound and determined to screw themselves into the ground over this.

[Blue_Tires]

2. This 11th-hour "deal"

is going to be as thorough and comprehensive as one of those book reports I used to write on the school bus the morning it was due, isn't it?

[JawJaw]

3. Cabinet resignations in 3....2....1....

Farage is already on record saying that the EU people he's come across in Strasbourg are "very happy" about the deal. Therefore, in his reptilian brain he's automatically against it. (Irrespective of not having actually read any of it, of course).

His exact description is "the worst deal in history".

Therefore, I expect similar sentiments to be expressed by the extreme Leavers in the Conservative Party over the next 24 hours or so.