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So, let’s imagine. It’s the Ides of March. MPs have voted against Mrs May’s Deal (again). They’ve voted against No Deal. They’ve voted in favour of an extension.
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Labour’s Parliamentary Committee - senior PLP members - met this afternoon & I’m told everyone present agreed with Tom Watson that Chris Williamson should be suspended - except the non-MP rep from Corbyn’s office who was adamant they didn’t want him suspended
Corbyn calls Watsons bluff...
And then decide - most likely by referendum - what it is that we want to do next.
Of course what Britain should do is not, by any stretch of the imagination, what May is likely to do.
But are you saying a two year extension and then a further two year transition period?
Plus as has been mentioned it would be quite a volte face on the sequencing.
According to Labour Against the Witchhunt, Chris Williamson “confronted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism… declaring that he often described Israel as an apartheid state”, denounced the “terrible injustice” done to Jackie Walker and condemned the way Marc Wadsworth had been “demonised as a bigot”, before calling on Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell to “wake up” and “confront the rightwing witch-hunters”. Instead of going after the anti-Semites in the Labour Party, Williamson urged the leadership to go after those who were calling it out…
Williamson said that “bullying” would only stop when people stood up to, declaring that “the monster is getting bigger. Stop feeding the beast!” To top it off, Williamson was also sharing a platform at the event with the notorious Tony Greenstein, who was suspended by Labour for “repeatedly using ‘zio’ as a term of derision, stating ‘Gay zionists make me want to puke’ and referring to others as ‘Zionist scum’”.
Assuming May doesn't get ousted by her party once her year of security expires or more likely gets VONCed in Parliament before then, then the most likely outcome is another two years of fannying around followed by the EU offering the stark choice of crash-out or revoke.
I don't see May making it through a two-year (or more likely 21 month) extension though. We'll probably end up with another GE which will be a proxy referendum on something like her deal or remain.
If he's impeached and convicted then his fans will see it as the swamp taking back control and they'll become even more angry.
No need for any extension.
Though it'll be more like the people's court, so long as I don't have a Roland Freisler vs Erwin von Witzleben moment.
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1100754227620651008
On Topic: What should we say to a 2 year extension?
Yes, of course! - So long as we are not tormented with a REF2.
The first was to utilise the reply in Arkell-v-Pressdram and refuse to comply with that timetable.
The second, marginally more constructively, would have been to fix a period of 6 months, maximum, to agree the WA and then spend the next 18 months fixing the future relationship.
To waste 2 years faffing about stuff that was pretty technical, not very interesting and largely inevitable was incompetence of an unbelievable level. To then say at the end of those 2 largely wasted years that we need more time is pathetic. Just pathetic.
Oh I am sick of this.
I was reminded how the Greek PM did a U-turn on the evening of the referendum result on whether to accept the EU terms on the Euro bailout. Whilst the UK is not in the Euro and I would never support our entry to it. I think May, if her deal is defeated again should follow the Greek route and just retract Article 50 and to hell with the advisory referendum of 2016. All that Leave promised has turned out to be just fantasy and not deliverable without more pain for those who cannot afford it. Our best deal is to stay within the European Union.
It’s Charlie, Lord Falconer not Lord Charlie Falconer
Trump loses the 2020 election and ends up in prison for the various state crimes many think he has committed.
https://twitter.com/theobertram/status/1100795739704311808
In fact the only thing that we could do in 3 months that might (and its a very small might) solve this issue would be to hold a general election and no one wants to do that at the moment.
They should, but they won't.
If Trump is somehow thrown in the slammer beyond the ability of the Senate to stop it (Which is a remote chance) I think Pence will become the nominee by acclamation; and he'll have a fair chance of getting in with a motivated GOP base behind him (Democrats won't have Trump to vote against)
Mainly as Euro elections required - Uk returns 50% gammon MEPs to disrupt Strasbourg.
Not happening bruv.