{"id":177484,"date":"2019-09-08T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/08\/as-the-brexit-turns\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:56:00","slug":"as-the-brexit-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/08\/as-the-brexit-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"As the Brexit Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Foreign Minister has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-britain-eu-france\/france-says-eu-wont-approve-brexit-delay-as-things-stand-idUSKCN1VT08U\">the EU is not likely to approve another extension to Brexit<\/a>, which makes the whole back and forth in Parliament about requiring Boris Johnson to ask for an extension to some degree moot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">France\u2019s foreign minister said on Sunday that, as things stand, the European Union would not grant Britain an extension beyond Oct. 31 to negotiate its exit from the bloc.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s very worrying. The British must tell us what they want,\u201d Jean-Yves Le Drian told Europe 1 radio.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Asked if an extension beyond Oct. 31 was possible, Le Drian said not under current conditions. \u201cWe are not going to do (extend) this every three months,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BoJo may win for losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Foreign Minister has announced that the EU is not likely to approve another extension to Brexit, which makes the whole back and forth in Parliament about requiring Boris Johnson to ask for an extension to some degree moot: France\u2019s foreign minister said on Sunday that, as things stand, the European Union would not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[627,588],"class_list":["post-177484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brexit","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}