Brexit Common Sense

Writing for Bloomberg, Clive Crook gets real about what Parliament can actually decide about Brexit.

Most of the options they’re intending to address have nothing to do with the decision Britain actually has to make by April 12 — the new exit date, recently extended from March 29 by the EU. As things stand, that decision comes down to three choices: Leave with no deal, accept the May-EU deal, or revoke Article 50. Those are the only decisions that can be made in time, and that rest solely with the U.K. All the others would require the EU’s assent and weeks and months of further negotiation.

And the EU is thoroughly tired of the Brits’ will-she-or-won’t-she indecision. We should know something soon.