Watching from the wings, as most of us are, albeit sometimes
reluctantly, we continue to witness the slow-motion car crash that
is the
Brexit process in the UK Parliament. It's a muckle boorach
[Scots: - a big mess].
The EU Withdrawal Agreement
On Tuesday 12 March 2019, the House of Commons voted by a
majority of 149 MPs to reject the UK Government's proposed EU
Withdrawal Agreement, recognising that little had changed,
including the terms of the legal advice of the Attorney General,
since the last time MPs rejected it in January 2019 by a majority
of 230.
The UK Government's failure to command a majority for its
Withdrawal Agreement can be attributed to a range of factors, but
the overriding factor in both defeats appears to be an on-going
concern about the perpetual nature of what has been referred to as
the "back-stop", which provides a guarantee that,
whatever happens, there will be no hard border placed between
Ireland and Northern Ireland as a result of
