Source: The Guardian 11 Jul 2017
What is to become of all this?
The immediate concern is the outcome of the Brexit negotiations and whether or not agreement can be reached in the two years allowed. This may not be possible as forty years of web weaving and stretching feet under everybody’s tables will take some unravelling and relaying. We may need longer than the two years allowed and Article 50 does have a clause to allow for it
3. The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in paragraph 2, unless the European Council, in agreement with the Member State concerned, unanimously decides to extend this period.
It may well be worth considering that Theresa May’s assertion that no agreement is better than a bad one is not so hinky or ill-considered as some may have us believe.