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Wednesday 10 April 2019

EU leaders agree to postpone Britain's exit until 31 October after hardliner Macron digs in and humiliates PM

[Daily Bullshit Mail Headline]: Theresa May is said to have been handed a humiliating Halloween Brexit nightmare with EU leaders agreeing to delay the UK’s departure until October 31 at a crunch summit tonight. The six-month extension would be accompanied by a review in June, dashing the hopes of the Prime Minister, who had begged them to postpone our departure only until the end of that month. The date is seen as a compromise between the majority of the EU27 leaders who wanted to delay Brexit until either the end of the year or March 2020, and France's Emmanuel Macron, who emerged as a vocal opponent to a long extension. Reuters had quoted a diplomatic source who said Mr Macron wants to actually offer Mrs May roughly what she wants, telling his counterparts a delay past June 30 would undermine the EU. The source had suggested the French were being 'annoying, just posturing to show how important and powerful they are'. With Tory MPs already mutinous, a Brexit delay to Halloween would heap pressure on Theresa May to resign and allow a new Prime Minister to take over....Read More Bullshit>>>...