Article 50 decision imminent! Parliament could vote.

claiming she had that right when she didn't..

The FTSE is up - evidently the City wants the Single Market and thinks this is the start of that road.

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And sterling is down on the day against the dollar. (As I write this, it may change, obviously).

Here it comes... 9.30am - then we know if Parliament must approve the invocation of Article 50, committing the UK to withdrawal from the EU.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/24/supreme-court-article-50-judgment-lord-neuberger-eu-treaty

It will be a relief if Lord Neuberger, head of the Supreme Court, confirms that it must - it seems deeply undemocratic for the Prime Minister alone to be able to invoke such a profound national decision, referendum or no referendum.

The whole background to the referendum was against our national traditions - Britain is a parliamentary country, not a populist dictatorship - and was a cave-in to the hard right, to foreign oligarchs who control our media and to extremely dodgy politicians like Farage.

EDIT: It's done - 8-3 in favour of it going back to Parliament.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-38723261

I have no idea why OP is being triumphant over the outcome of this. This makes Brexit more likely for two reasons, Parliament will vote to leave which in turn will strengthen the mandate to leave and crucially there was a unanimous decision that the decision to leave does not have to pass through the devolved parliaments.

It's fairly irrelevant. It will get through the Commons easily enough.

If the Lords try to block or delay it then I'm sure May will swiftly revive the proposed Lords reforms. It's not in their interests to risk their cushy jobs for life.

Also the judges ruled that devolved administrations don't have to be given any say in it so that's a blow for the likes of Sturgeon and whoever that Welsh guy in the papers yesterday.

It isn't the Commons that matters. It will pass easily because a lot of Labour MPs know on which side their bread needs to be buttered.

The Lords will prove the stumbling block. Amazing how soi distant progressives are lining up with a bunch of unelected nobles and political placemen and cronies.

My money is on a General Election this year with the unelected Lords blocking the people being the issue.

I agree, but one cannot in the same breath praise democracy yet deny referendums on crucial decisions. How is the hoi polloi considered fit to vote for its leader if not considered fit to vote in referendums?

Your criticism also applies equally to Remain voters - who were an even smaller percentage of the people.

Which according to you must be wonderful? As our pound is so overvalued....

The scenario you've painted here is practically impossible.

The Lords cannot block the Commons completely, though they can slow it down a fair amount in order to allow more scrutiny and to prevent poorly-written bills from reaching royal assent. They are entirely within their rights to do that for Brexit if needed, since that's the system we have in place for every law. The idea that this system would suddenly lead to a snap election is ridiculous.

That's the point. We elect our parliamentary representatives who we entrust with making informed decisions on our behalf. We don't just take a plebiscite on every issue. It would be both impractical and socially disasterous.

On the question "do you want to fundamentally change things or leave them as they are", it is reasonable to assume that everyone who wanted to change the system would vote for that change.

If you have 100 people in the "Tea or Coffee" queue and you ask "who wants tea" and 35 people put their hands up, it is reasonable to assume that the remaining 65 people all want coffee, because if they didn't, they would have put their hand up for tea.

No it was overvalued BEFORE the referendum. It has overshot to the downside and is undervalued now.

But if, as the poster I was responding too thinks, all those currency traders and speculators who control the price by their billions of pounds worth of trades believed this ruling made membership of the single market was more probable, and that was good for the pound, sterling would rise markedly, would it not?

When in fact it rose markedly after the PMs speech saying we would LEAVE the single market.

I am sorry, but that's not what happened.

The pound had a rally when Theresa May said the final Brexit deal will go for parliamentary approval. The hope being that parliamentary approval will act as a minor buffer to a really hard Brexit deal (no customs union, no separate deal for certain sectors etc). The pound tanked when she only mentioned that the UK will be leaving the single market (sky interview).

The downside of the pound hasn't even been close to valued yet. The only thing markets have attempted to value is uncertainty. Real valuation of the pound can only happen when the final Brexit deal emerges. And if it's no deal then FX traders (UBS, Goldman etc) are looking at a very real possibility of 1.15 against USD and parity with Euro.

No it was overvalued BEFORE the referendum. It has overshot to the downside and is undervalued now.

But if, as the poster I was responding too thinks, all those currency traders and speculators who control the price by their billions of pounds worth of trades believed this ruling made membership of the single market was more probable, and that was good for the pound, sterling would rise markedly, would it not?

When in fact it rose markedly after the PMs speech saying we would LEAVE the single market.

Apparently there are more than 400 MPs who will vote to invoke 50. (Source: Guido Fawkes).

Let the unelected Lords try and overturn a clear referendum majority AND the elected House of Commons! Ha ha ha!

Can you spell suicide your noble, UNELECTED Lords?

Because no trade deal would really strengthen confidence in the Euro. Absolute la la land. I'm genuinely under the impression that traders don't watch the news. It's been clear that we will be leaving the single market and customs union since May set up the DfIT.