The UK Is One Step Closer To Kissing The EU Goodbye

For a while, I’ve felt like “Brexit” was kinda like our “Build the Wall” thing. It’ll happen eventually, but I have no idea when.

Well, they’re still making progress. The UK is now one step closer to kissing the EU goodbye. The EU approved a Brexit deal.

EU27 has endorsed the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the future EU-UK relations.

— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) November 25, 2018

Ahead of us is the difficult process of ratification as well as further negotiations. But regardless of how it will end, one thing is certain: we will remain friends until the end of days, and one day longer. #Brexit

— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) November 25, 2018

At a summit in Brussels, the leaders endorsed a withdrawal agreement that would settle Britain’s divorce bill, protect the rights of U.K. and EU citizens hit by Brexit and keep the Irish border open. They will also rubber-stamp a 26-page document laying out their aims for future relations after Britain leaves at midnight Brussels time on March 29.

The next step? Britain’s Parliament needs to approve.

May is under intense pressure from pro-Brexit and pro-EU British lawmakers, with large numbers on both sides of the debate opposing the divorce deal and threatening to vote it down when it comes to the House of Commons next month. Brexiteers think it will leave the U.K. tied too closely to EU rules, while pro-Europeans say it will erect new barriers between Britain and the bloc — its neighbor and biggest trading partner.

May insists her deal delivers on the things that matter most to pro-Brexit voters — control of budgets, immigration policy and laws — while retaining close ties to the U.K.’s European neighbors.

Reactions are mixed. Really mixed.

BREAKING:
The 27 European Union leaders just took under 40 minutes to officially endorse Theresa May's Brexit plan.
That's how bad it is for Britain.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 25, 2018

JC Juncker tells me the deal on the table is THE deal. If it is voted down by parliament, then there is no deal, he says #Brexit

— katya adler (@BBCkatyaadler) November 25, 2018

Brexit has come down to this: Brexit is rubbish but we have no alternative.

Except we do. We can Remain. https://t.co/CYdvcqLyJZ https://t.co/CYdvcqLyJZ

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) November 25, 2018

3 urgent actions needed @UKIP;

1) A clear aim:

“Achieve No Deal Brexit in order to unequivocally Leave the EU

2) A leader unifying members behind the aim

3) Mobilising Brexiteers in regions across the U.K. re-energising the leave vote

Boys. Stop comparing c*cks & get to it

— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) November 25, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed Labour will oppose Theresa May's Brexit deal in the Commons because it's a "bad deal for the country" that "leaves us with the worst of all worlds."

— LBC Breaking (@lbcbreaking) November 25, 2018

If Theresa May wants to get a Brexit deal through parliament, she needs to ditch her bad deal and come back with the deal that Labour has proposed. #marr pic.twitter.com/qJU0nQlQfO

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) November 25, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will oppose Theresa May's Brexit deal in Parliament and has described it as a "miserable failure of negotiation that leaves us with the worst of all worlds"

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) November 25, 2018

Yiiiiiikes. This is far from over. Stay tuned…

h/t USA Today