Edinburgh North & Leith leads the way as petition to delay Brexit negotiations until after the Coronavirus Outbreak has passed breaks the critical 100,000 threshold.
It might seem like a no-brainer to most that when negotiators cannot meet face to face and when civil servants across Europe are busy fighting the biggest threat health to health for 100 years that the “lesser” matter of negotiating a good trading deal with the EU should be set to one side until it can be given the serious attention that “one of the easiest in human history” clearly now requires if it is to be anything short of an economic catastrophe.
But with UK citizens supporting such a delay by almost 2:1 Boris Johnson’s government still ploughs on, apparently deaf and blind to the enormous damage which hammer an already weakened post-Covid UK economy.
Now a petition has reached the threshold which requires the Petitions Committee of the Westminster Parliament to give serious consideration to whether such a delay should be debated. And an Edinburgh constituency, Edinburgh North & Leith has led the charge with more signatures than any other constituency in the UK.
If a delay is itself a no-brainer, then a debate to consider it should be automatic but Conservative instransigence makes even that unlikely. They don’t even want to talk about it. That makes the likelihood of a No Deal crash all the more likely.
If the debate does go ahead, then it will, at least give Opposition politicians the opportunity to question why a government which is supposed to protect the country seems determined to inflict further chaos, unemployment and slash GDP by over 9% on a country which is already staggering after coronavirus.
Signatures will continue to be collected despite reaching the critical threshold. If you would like to add yours go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300412
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