D Day for Brexit

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Waiting for the opposition to score one last fatal own goal is never a good tactic. Corbyn needs to up his game and quick!

[oldcolner]

So Airbus are miffed because the Government wanted them to announce what the impact of Brexit would be on them to influence public opinion, which they did, (not sure how much of it is true though) only now to find the Government are planning to award a contract for new fighter aircraft to Boeing without any tendering.
That is wrong on so many levels.

[oldcolner]

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This looks BAD
The Lib Dem leadership are facing fury from activists today after Sir Vince Cable and Tim Farron missed a knife-edge Brexit votes last night.
Sir Vince was touring the television studios and sending tweets criticising Theresa May for caving to Jacob Rees-Mogg and accepting his hard Brexiteer amendment. Farron was also missing as he was in Dorset giving a speech about intolerance towards Christians.
Maybe they had paired but with only 3 votes making a difference Your two henchman switch off.

[1959_60]

Yep OC. It IS bad.

They were very poorly advised by our whip.

Having said that, i find it incredible that they didn't prioritise this debate because of it's importance.

Jo Swinson wasn't there either because she is a new mum - but she was paired.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I would disagree that Brexit weakens Britain OC. As a member of the EU, Britain doesn't exist as a sovereign, independent nation, and is unable to negotiate a trade deal with the USA or any other country, how does leaving make us weaker ? Trump dislikes the EU intensely, he sees it for the sclerotic, expensive, corrupt scam that it is, and quite rightly thinks we'll be better off out of it.

A more interesting, and revealing, line of inquiry would be to ask why Obama, a President who quite clearly had no interest, affection or respect for our country, wanted us to stay in.

Here we go again, let's question Obama's motives...


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[The Bedlington Terrier]

Today our Government will finally "agree" what form Brexit will take. About time too.

I reckon there will be resignations no matter what the decision is.

It seems to me that most people on here favour the Rees-Mogg version - just have a complete break and go it alone.

Finally Theresa May will have to make a decision.

She has just dodged another bullet this evening, this time by just six votes. How much longer can she last?

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[1959_60]

All academic if the EU gives the plan the bums rush BT.

[oldcolner]

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Yes and that looks likely.
Re pairing how does that work for liberal MPs and on Brexit. Is it with a Brexiteer .. or a Tory ... or Labour ?

[sinkov]

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has at last decided to try and knock a bit of sense into the morons in Brussels, explaining to them just what a fecking big hole they're digging for themselves with their intransigence. It's a pity May hasn't been pointing this out to them, instead of flying the white flag over 10 Downing Street. We're run by buffoons for sure, but what these EU morons don't seem to realise, or perhaps they just don't care, is that we're the fifth largest economy in the world, millions of jobs in the EU are dependent on trade with us, if we go down, they go down with us.

"The European Union's financial system will come off worse in a no-deal Brexit, Mark Carney told MPs, as another chaotic day in Parliament threatened to tip Britain closer to a scenario he said would also have “big economic consequences” at home.
The Governor of the Bank of England warned that the negative consequences on the continent of failure to agree terms would be “cold comfort” for Britain as the City would effectively be cut off from EU.
Mr Carney gave evidence to the Treasury Select Committee, chaired by leading Remain rebel Nicky Morgan, that the consequence on the continent of no deal would be “extreme fragmentation of the European capital market”.
“There’ll be a shortage of capital collateral capacity in the EU without question, which will take some time to adjust to”, Mr Carney said.
The Governor has described Britain as the EU’s banker, and his latest comments follow earlier warnings to Brussels that a drawbridge-style block to trade in financial services could have dramatic consequences.

By contrast he said the UK financial system is well-placed to cope with the immediate aftermath of a no-deal Brexit thanks to efforts made by the Bank to test their readiness."

[1959_60]

I have heard that Jo Swinson paired with a lady MP who was going to abstain. Rumour is that she reneged and voted anyway. As far as I know, MP's who can't make the vote are paired together. Arrangements can be made with MP's who agree that they intend to abstain.

Labour was going to abstain on the vote. This would have resulted in an easy Government victory. But at 9PM (one hour from the vote) they changed their mind.

As a result 2 Lib Dems, 3 SNP and 15 Labour MP's missed the vote.

But I don't think it is good enough. Tim and Vince should have been there.