Members of the British parliament will be offered a chance to vote on remaining in the EEA after leaving the EU following a surprise vote in the House of Lords.
Despite neither the UK government nor the opposition Labour party leadership approving it an amendment to the EU withdrawal bill obliging the UK to stay in the European Economic Area after it leaves the EU in 2019 was backed by a majority of 245 Lords against 218.
As all amendments that are passed by the Lords must automatically be considered and voted on by MPs the Commons will now need to vote on it too which could happens as soon as next week.
The amendment was tabled by Labour Lord Alli who asked fellow Lords to "support it and ensure that common sense prevails over political dogma".
Eurosceptics argue that it would leave Britain as "a vassal state" to Brussels.
The EEA is also known as the 'Norway model'. Under the model Norway has agreed to accept all EU legislation regarding the single market and to accept all future legislation that the EU might adopt for the single market in return for free access to the European single market.
Under EEA Norway effectively renounced the right to adopt national legislation that may be in violation of the single market's legislation. In return, Norwegian businesses and citizens get free access to the European single market.
Norwegian companies are able to compete for contracts on equal terms with EU companies and Norwegians can travel to and work in other EEA member states while citizens of the EEA can travel to and work in Norway.
The EEA agreement does not come however free of charge. In the 2014-2021 agreement period, Norway will pay a total of almost €2.8bn.
A separate Surveillance Authority and Court of Justice ensures that obligations under the EEA agreement are fulfilled.
Theoretically, Norway can say "no" to new legislation if it feels it conflicts with its national interests or is irrelevant to the EEA. But until now, this has not happened.
They possibly couldn't be so cucked. I refuse to believe it. Nigel will save the isles and steer them toward hard brexit and the new independence day lmao
Robert Gray
Britain actually ending up as an EU cockslave like Switzerland or Norway will be hilarious
Xavier Powell
>be bong >vote on a referendum coz is "democracy" >your literal lords overrule your vote
Lucas Hill
You know they're going to do it. They don't have enough political support for a hard Brexit now
Gabriel Wright
If fucking only We won't brexit unless we get literally nothing from it, we will have no deals with europe at fucking all
Gavin Perry
Ignorant Amerilard here. Why is "Norway Mode" or "Switzerland Mode" bad? Don't they still have access to the common market and stuff?
They need to adhere to all the regulations without having any say in them. It's basically becoming a vassal of EU.
Asher Turner
Oh wow, that does sound dumb.
Joseph Roberts
They basically have no say on new laws passed by the European Parliament, but they still have to obey them since they're in the EEA It's basically the most cucked kind of agreement you can conceive. Remember that they already had access to the common market before Brexit, and they were able to vote on new laws
James Gonzalez
Those countries are subject to EU laws more or less, yet have no vote in EU. Both Norway and Switzerland have to allow EU citizens to move and work freely, or they lost their common market access. Immigration was a significant part of the Brexit platform.
Nathaniel Hughes
They are effectively our Puerto Rico. Have to abide to all EU rulings, have to accept immigrants, have to pay into the EU budget but have no saying in EU policy making
This. I used to be happy that they were trying to assert themselves again withtheir aircraft carriers and whatnot but this whole brexit thing has just been sad to watch.
Like the senate I assume Yeah they went from ‘UK is gonna kill all the EU cucks’ to ‘EU why don’t you be nice to us and treat us as equals boohoo where is the justice’
Joseph Mitchell
They thought they were uncucking themselves and actually got cucked more F
Andrew White
Brexit means brexit
Easton Ramirez
It’s funny. They were calling the EU weak and useless but now are faced with the power of the biggest protection racket on earth and stand no chance anymore.
Jayden Long
Brexiting beucause of muh curved cucumbers is pretty funny tho, especially seeing whatkind of clusterfuck it has created for the UK.
Kayden Ward
>first new EEA rule to be enforced will regard cucumbers OH NO NO NO
Based Lords upholding their French heritage by making the UK a vassal of the continent.
Ethan Nelson
Nice "made in the EU" passport
Eli Hill
based Farage working for his French masters
Camden Lee
But pakis will still come to UK regardless of their position (member or vassal) in EU?
Ayden Edwards
Hate to get all Jow Forumsy but our government and elites don't care in the slightest about Britain or the British people, the EU is too profitable for them. As always they will spit in our face and the English working class will suffer as they always have. I only hope they get too cocky and push one too many buttons so it comes back to bite them in the arse, I hate how they get away with it so fucking much.
maybe the underclass runts shouldn't behave voted for Brexit then
Brody Perry
The British underclass had because of a massively overvalued pound among the highest purchasing power in the EU combined with freedom of movement allowing them to go on holiday a lot.
I doubt the current situation is good for them but whatever they can visit Blackpool instead
Henry Bell
why don't you try to do something about it then? i mean this is your well-being at stake
Connor Young
Are you defending the governments position on brexit or condemning it It sounds like both
Aiden Allen
Doesn't matter when your wages are shit because Polish workers are cheaper and more effective. Holidays don't really mean anything when your community is dead because everyone speaks different languages. Brexit is about more than economics, you have to understand Leave vs Remain was very much a class and immigration issue.
Jayden Williams
Swiss are outside the EEA, they have 1000000 agreements with it that equate to being in it.
Kevin Walker
The lack of EU law will only make Polish workers cheaper, you berk Or do you think that the tories will actually try and help out businesses other than multinationals? And for the love of christ we just had a home seceretary who gutted our border defense made into PM, at no point was there ANY CHANCE of immigration lowering
Blake Rivera
Maybe you wouldn't have so many immigrants from poor shitholes if you didn't force your language as the lingua franca, hmm?
>we're going to retake our sovereignty lads! >it actually downgrades their sovereignty JUST
Thomas Butler
DEM POLISH TORIES CUT MY BENNIES
Camden Thomas
We're full
David Clark
its bad cause we gotta agree on some eu shit even if we get to join the market, its a pretty shitty deal
we voted no twice to joining the eu, yet the politicians have such a fetish for selling this country away. they should be lined up and shot like the quislings they are
Carter Flores
Why would anyone agree to that? What is the pay off?
Levi Scott
No payoff whatsoever I think It's the best they can do in a shitty situation
Kevin Parker
You understand I'm speaking about the classes, yes? They have no say in anything. The upper class benefit from immigrants, the working class don't. The working class aren't responsible for anything the upper class did, they only got the vote 100 years ago.
You think the working class is aware of that? They're kept purposefully ignorant. Schools outside of south east England are criminally underfunded. They'll never produce the politicians and thinkers necessary to challenge the status quo peacefully. They're just voting for what they assume is the least shitty option (except, they're all shit because they're being shafted no matter what.)
Hudson White
The class system in Britain is much more pronounced than it is on the continent, mobility is much less smooth. I'm not a Marxist by any means, I just with our country was more merit-based and representative of the people's wishes.
Tyler Gutierrez
tariffs would have fucked us over cause our main trading partners are in the eu. people didnt want to join the eu, so the politicians decided to do this shitty deal without asking the people
Camden Hughes
Well they already promised to leave so it’s a move that changes nothing while they can claim they left
Juan Jenkins
The EU is there for the trade interest of the member nations. Contrary to popular believe they play it hard and rough.
People can only choose between ‘having trade barriers with all your trading partners’ or ‘do what the EU wants’
Nathan Gonzalez
They play hard because they know they can afford to do it: an EU membership offers access to the biggest market in the world It's like an exclusive club, you pay a lot but gain a lot
Carter Martinez
We won't stay in the single market because Brexit means Brexit
Jordan Cruz
But your lords seem to think otherwise
Dominic Sullivan
Explain that to the Brexit economic geniuses that were going to replace the EU with Zimbabwe and New Zealand
Jaxson Martinez
Nooo... i wanted a hard brexit. :(
Julian Thompson
The lord's can fuck off
Justin Cruz
I like how everything taht could possibly go wrong is going wrong and yet they're still in the EU. They've been brought to their knees and it hasn't even begun yet.
Cameron Bennett
so did germany win?
Jaxon Torres
LMAO maybe ill do go to britain just for the fun of it
Julian Hill
no the jews did.
Carter Rodriguez
>Switzerland or Norway will be hilarious what i thought it was other way around and it was Swiss and nords who were fucking EU in the ass while EU is begging them to join
Aiden Johnson
>that headline the lords can't force parliament to do anything, if the commons wants anything they can just parliament act it
but it's ok when it's pakis that do it instead of bydło? we would just paint our bydło with nuttela if that's what it's about
Hudson Turner
Obviously it isn't ok, you ever heard anyone on this board speak in favour of pakis in the UK? Use some common sense
Jaxon Hill
Guy Fawkes was right all along.
Austin Phillips
The thing about the senate is that they serve regular terms, have to be popularly elected and actually need to do government work - lords serve for life, are appointed by the PM or inherit their seats, and collect a pension without being required to show their faces in parliament ever.
Josiah Russell
>or inherit their seats Wtf UK And I thought Italy had nepotism
Cameron Torres
Good PR
Gabriel Morris
>yfw he will still collect his EU pension
Henry Gray
The hereditary peers were never that bad. They weren't tied to party politics and didn't depend on an income so they weren't career politicians, you had people from all walks of life present. The current setup is the worst of all worlds, because instead you just have people appointed directly by the prime minister, there's been so many corruption scandals over it I've lost count.
Camden Bailey
IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING...
Zachary Hall
you did that while still in EU really moot point. SAD
Angel Russell
BRITKEKS
Jaxon Phillips
And they'll vote no. Not really that much of a story desu.
Mason Richardson
We weren't in Shengen, but we still had to deal with the Right to Work EU policy.
Caleb Diaz
>Brexitards force their government into a position where any and all decisions they make will be the wrong ones one way or another >Don't fully understand what's going on >Blame government and immigrants when Britain crumbles
That means hard Brexit (and losing the opportunity to get re-elected forever)
Noah Barnes
Good, it's weird to pretend that any other kind of Brexit was ever an actual possibility. Unironically, Brexit means Brexit. the ones are pushing for soft Brexit are purely interested in keeping their own jobs.
Wyatt Johnson
It's not the politicians that are going to lose their jobs if a hard Brexit happens
Kayden Morgan
I don't really care if a bunch of Poles lose their right to work and have to leave.
Hunter Lewis
You know you'll suffer an overproduction crisis if hard Brexit happens right?
Samuel Myers
>You know There's your error
Carson Williams
There'll be an adjustment period that'll be tough, sure. In the long run, if it means native workers get a better shot and getting work here, without their job security being undercut by cheap labour from other EU countries, then it's worth it.
Kevin Myers
What part of this is so hard for EUphiles to understand?
