As I've said before on here, this is not possible by the EU rules. Once you (not you, personally, obviously) pull the Article 50 lever, the clock on the two years starts ticking. During those two years, you try to negotiate a treaty for what should happen after you leave. When the two years are up and you have a treaty - great, that's what you get. If by that time, you don't have a treaty you are either out with no treaty (bad) OR you manage to convince ALL THE OTHER MEMBER STATES(!) to vote UNANIMOUSLY(!) for an extension to the negotiation period.
But nowhere at all in the rules does it say that after the treaty negotiations are done, you get to decide whether you want to exit with that treaty or stay inside. Once you trigger Article 50 YOU ARE OUT. The only thing left to decide is how, exactly, you are out.
Everything else would be completely stupid. If it were the way you (personally) imagine, a nation could trigger Art50 as a test balloon to just see whether they'd get a good deal, and if they don't, no harm no foul. That doesn't work.
]]>EITHER you manage to come to a deal within the 2 years. OR you are out without a deal and that's that. ONLY option is that if a deal hasn't been reached after two years, all other EU nations can UNANIMOUSLY (!) agree to extend the two year period and conduct further negotiations. Everybody I have heard considers that bit unlikely.
AFAICT there is no option at all to say "we have reached a deal, now the British public can vote on whether they want that deal". Because once a deal has been reached, that deal is the only option except for the one where you're out without a deal.
]]>AFAICT both UK as well as US publishing houses can legally sell to Germany. bigriver.de usually has both versions of any English language title they carry, they just don't always make it easy to find out which is which (if the cover image is the same one can only go by ISBN or sometimes outer dimensions of the physical book).
Anyway, my preordered copy of the US hardcover arrived yesterday (Germany). Now comes the hard part (i.e. finding the time to read the thing, in between work, the 4 kids and also that darn phd thesis that I should be completing in my free time ..)
]]>I liked books 1 and 2 quite a lot, book 3 was almost unreadable for me. I read it to the end because I wanted to know how the story finishes but .. the way the author separated the narrative of $PROTAGONIST1 from $PROTAGONIST2 felt really jarring to me.
YMMV, obviously.
Also, throughout the whole storyline, I had "I hate the protagonist!"-problems. The guy's a fucking asshole. But he probably has to be, so .. eh.
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