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  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387
    malcolmg said:

    Rentoul reckons nothing will get through:

    https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1110879921847574528

    Wild bollox more like.
    Well Malcolm you are free to play along at home!

    I think the Beckett vote is by far the most interesting.
  • TOPPING said:

    Bah humbug

    Play nicely or Mike might force feed you some Hawaiian pizza.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 47,786
    CD13 said:

    Mr Glenn,

    So you know why leave voters voted that way? I hate to shatter your illusions, but most voters don't examine the minutiae of campaigns because they are either too busy, or more likely they have a healthy disrespect for the lies/exaggeration of politicians.

    "If we vote to leave, the poor little seabirds will fall out of the sky, and the wardrobe monster will come and get us."

    It could be that many had lived through 40 years of the EU, and they didn't like what they saw. The kiddies obviously didn't have that advantage.

    We know that some voted Leave thinking it would mean we ended up staying. Can you prove that wasn't the difference between winning and losing?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWKtoG_a_hE
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Rentoul reckons nothing will get through:

    https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1110879921847574528

    638 total votes?

    That can't account for the cabinet abstaining. That just accounts for Sinn Fein, the unfilled seat and Speakers.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 41,670
    TOPPING said:

    malcolmg said:



    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    I noticed this too:

    https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1110883371276738562

    Thinks she can get the deal through?

    Demob happy?

    Yeah, she's quitting tonight.
    This. With the concluding missive "fuck the lot of you" as she walks from the '22 noisly farting.

    At least Major had the style to say "I lost. I quit. See ya" and then go to the cricket where he could sit there grinning at the cameras through his shades.
    She's probably relaxed because the Commons took back control and guess what? Even (k)nobs like JRM and our very own @******_****** realise that when you get down and dirty, which is where we are now, her deal is the only game in town.
    Find me a single post Topping (a single one) I made going back to the Chequers Deal last year when I didn’t support May’s Deal.
    Where in that post did I say that you ever didn't support the deal.
    It’s perfectly obvious you were referring to me.

    Own it.
    LOL

    Get over yourself. Whatever you did or didn't say, post or think you remain in the dolt Brexiter category.
    You’re a coward who hasn’t got the bollocks to say it to my face, and are now trying to wriggle out of it as you realise you haven’t got a leg to stand on.

    My argument was never with you but you decide to get stuck in and hurl some mud my way, all because I picked on your chum and his posting style, as you recognised a kindred spirit.

    Pathetic.
    I'll say it to your face any time you want.

    I have said that I don't care whether you supported the deal or didn't support the deal. I am not wriggling out of anything. I am perfectly happy to accept you have always been an avid supporter of the deal. You are nevertheless a dolt Brexiter.
    God, that’s poor.

    Basically you’ve admitted you were wrong about everything but you’ve just added “dolt” at the end of it to save a bit of face.

    I’ll take that as a victory, thank you.

    Good day.
    Not wrong about anything. Especially the dolt bit.
    Come on Topping , extend the hand of friendship
    Bah humbug
    :)
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,695
    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 59,540

    As this impasse continues, I'm warming to the idea of the CM 2.0 plan, and have been reading the summary here: http://betterbrexit.org.uk/

    It has flaws, but given none of the available options (incl revoke and Ref2) are particularly palatable in any event, I am beginning to think this offers us a pathway out of the mess, particularly if it does allow us some degree of initial consultative influence as an EEA member on future EU proposals. It also means that if and when we find a frictionless border solution, agreeable to all sides, a future UK Govt could transition us across to that (even if that is not the intention of Boles etc who are supporting it).

    The "rule taker" objection is there, but even on the hardest of Bill Cash style Brexits, we will still be a rule taker in practice. The newly emerged EU proposals for embedded speed limiters on cars and on universal summer time all year round (both of which I strongly oppose) are good examples of this. Even on a hard Brexit, we will be beholden to these because no car manufacturer is going to manufacture UK specific models without any of the Brussels enforced gubbins, even if UK law doesn't require it in order to sell here - we will get it anyway because manufacturers will include it. A Hard Brexit UK would have had no influence over that, but will still have to live with EU product standards on everything we buy and sell. Whereas our commitments to Ireland, and desire to avoid Irish reunification, would mean a UK government would in practice have to go along with the universal summertime proposal as a means of avoiding either two timezones in the UK or NI being in a different timezone to the ROI at the UK's behest.

    Practical reality will take over regardless of legal obligations.

    Of course remaining a full EU member is the only way to mitigate those concerns properly. But doing so would not only be a national humiliation at this stage, it is unthinkable that we could after 3 years just junk the wishes of the 17.4m who made up the narrow majority.

    Am I missing something really obviously bad with the CM 2.0 plan?

    Here's a Labour view:

    https://twitter.com/LabourList/status/1110813891901087744
  • RobDRobD Posts: 58,941

    TOPPING said:

    Bah humbug

    Play nicely or Mike might force feed you some Hawaiian pizza.
    So you are saying if I pick a fight, I get free Hawaiian pizza? :o
  • kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    CD13 said:

    Mr Glenn,

    So you know why leave voters voted that way? I hate to shatter your illusions, but most voters don't examine the minutiae of campaigns because they are either too busy, or more likely they have a healthy disrespect for the lies/exaggeration of politicians.

    "If we vote to leave, the poor little seabirds will fall out of the sky, and the wardrobe monster will come and get us."

    It could be that many had lived through 40 years of the EU, and they didn't like what they saw. The kiddies obviously didn't have that advantage.

    +1
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 13,766

    As this impasse continues, I'm warming to the idea of the CM 2.0 plan, and have been reading the summary here: http://betterbrexit.org.uk/

    It has flaws, but given none of the available options (incl revoke and Ref2) are particularly palatable in any event, I am beginning to think this offers us a pathway out of the mess, particularly if it does allow us some degree of initial consultative influence as an EEA member on future EU proposals. It also means that if and when we find a frictionless border solution, agreeable to all sides, a future UK Govt could transition us across to that (even if that is not the intention of Boles etc who are supporting it).

    The "rule taker" objection is there, but even on the hardest of Bill Cash style Brexits, we will still be a rule taker in practice. The newly emerged EU proposals for embedded speed limiters on cars and on universal summer time all year round (both of which I strongly oppose) are good examples of this. Even on a hard Brexit, we will be beholden to these because no car manufacturer is going to manufacture UK specific models without any of the Brussels enforced gubbins, even if UK law doesn't require it in order to sell here - we will get it anyway because manufacturers will include it. A Hard Brexit UK would have had no influence over that, but will still have to live with EU product standards on everything we buy and sell. Whereas our commitments to Ireland, and desire to avoid Irish reunification, would mean a UK government would in practice have to go along with the universal summertime proposal as a means of avoiding either two timezones in the UK or NI being in a different timezone to the ROI at the UK's behest.

    Practical reality will take over regardless of legal obligations.

    Of course remaining a full EU member is the only way to mitigate those concerns properly. But doing so would not only be a national humiliation at this stage, it is unthinkable that we could after 3 years just junk the wishes of the 17.4m who made up the narrow majority.

    Am I missing something really obviously bad with the CM 2.0 plan?

    You make an excellent summation. It has always amused me that Brexiteers think that as soon as we are in their Utopian post Brexit we will be able to ignore EU rules, when most are to do with manufactured goods or services, all of which will have to comply with said rules, whether we are in or out. Perhaps Swivel-eyed Brexit fanatics will go around filing off CE marks from all products that find their way to our sceptred isle.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 40,950

    TOPPING said:

    Bah humbug

    Play nicely or Mike might force feed you some Hawaiian pizza.
    I am an Amazon Music subscriber so I can tee up the playlist for the ambience.
  • TrèsDifficileTrèsDifficile Posts: 1,729

    kjohnw said:

    RobD said:

    IanB2 said:

    Letwin already under fire from Brexiters - remarkable to see him answering questions from his place in the corner as if he were the government.

    Well it was his mad idea.
    Why don't you like Parliament taking back control?
    To ignore 17.4 million voters who they promised to obey , and giving their sovereignty back to the EU. They are in contempt of the people
    Gove has said that No Deal doesn't honour the referendum result, so Parliament is ensuring the result if honoured.
    You think Gove's word is the law?
    I'd rather trust his words on what honours the referendum result than someone like you.

    I apologise if it turns out you were a member of the Vote Leave board.
    He's also recently stated that we will have “full freedom to diverge from EU law on the Single Market and Customs Union” with May's deal after the transition period. Do you trust him on that as well?
  • RH1992RH1992 Posts: 788

    Rentoul reckons nothing will get through:

    https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1110879921847574528

    638 total votes?

    That can't account for the cabinet abstaining. That just accounts for Sinn Fein, the unfilled seat and Speakers.
    Rentoul's numbers seem to have been plucked out of thin air every time he's attempted to predict Commons votes but that assessment is two hours old.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    As this impasse continues, I'm warming to the idea of the CM 2.0 plan, and have been reading the summary here: http://betterbrexit.org.uk/

    It has flaws, but given none of the available options (incl revoke and Ref2) are particularly palatable in any event, I am beginning to think this offers us a pathway out of the mess, particularly if it does allow us some degree of initial consultative influence as an EEA member on future EU proposals. It also means that if and when we find a frictionless border solution, agreeable to all sides, a future UK Govt could transition us across to that (even if that is not the intention of Boles etc who are supporting it).

    The "rule taker" objection is there, but even on the hardest of Bill Cash style Brexits, we will still be a rule taker in practice. The newly emerged EU proposals for embedded speed limiters on cars and on universal summer time all year round (both of which I strongly oppose) are good examples of this. Even on a hard Brexit, we will be beholden to these because no car manufacturer is going to manufacture UK specific models without any of the Brussels enforced gubbins, even if UK law doesn't require it in order to sell here - we will get it anyway because manufacturers will include it. A Hard Brexit UK would have had no influence over that, but will still have to live with EU product standards on everything we buy and sell. Whereas our commitments to Ireland, and desire to avoid Irish reunification, would mean a UK government would in practice have to go along with the universal summertime proposal as a means of avoiding either two timezones in the UK or NI being in a different timezone to the ROI at the UK's behest.

    Practical reality will take over regardless of legal obligations.

    Of course remaining a full EU member is the only way to mitigate those concerns properly. But doing so would not only be a national humiliation at this stage, it is unthinkable that we could after 3 years just junk the wishes of the 17.4m who made up the narrow majority.

    Am I missing something really obviously bad with the CM 2.0 plan?

    You make an excellent summation. It has always amused me that Brexiteers think that as soon as we are in their Utopian post Brexit we will be able to ignore EU rules, when most are to do with manufactured goods or services, all of which will have to comply with said rules, whether we are in or out. Perhaps Swivel-eyed Brexit fanatics will go around filing off CE marks from all products that find their way to our sceptred isle.
    CE marks are largely globalised standards anyway. That's why the same products often have both CE and FCC marks anyway. Those aren't the rules generally objected to.
  • JackWJackW Posts: 14,787
    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    dixiedean said:

    dixiedean said:

    Can someone explain the practicality (not the Constitutional logic) of the Cabinet abstaining?
    Seems more likely to simply give more chance of success to outcomes not wanted.
    It is not as if their individual, personal preferences are a matter of much mystery.

    It avoids ministers resigning (like the junior ministers have been doing) and voting against the PM and each other.
    But it is a free vote. And Junior Ministers will be taking part.
    Yes but even in a free vote, the headlines would be all about Cabinet splits. Abstaining avoids this.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    edited March 2019
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  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 40,950
    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 58,941
    edited March 2019
    Wait, I thought there were reports the other week suggesting they donations to the Tories were actually quite healthy?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080

    dixiedean said:

    dixiedean said:

    Can someone explain the practicality (not the Constitutional logic) of the Cabinet abstaining?
    Seems more likely to simply give more chance of success to outcomes not wanted.
    It is not as if their individual, personal preferences are a matter of much mystery.

    It avoids ministers resigning (like the junior ministers have been doing) and voting against the PM and each other.
    But it is a free vote. And Junior Ministers will be taking part.
    Yes but even in a free vote, the headlines would be all about Cabinet splits. Abstaining avoids this.
    Would be surprised if the whole cabinet just opts out of this process.
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,349
    edited March 2019
    Mr Glenn,

    "We know that some voted Leave thinking it would mean we ended up staying."

    I think Theo talks perfect sense, but I never shared his optimism about the EU reforming, and I think he'd be even more likely to leave now. Federalism decided him, and it did for me too.


  • kjhkjh Posts: 10,456
    malcolmg said:

    kjh said:

    On the earlier subject of 'jobs worth' and people implementing rules regardless of circumstances - Back in January we got a parking ticket. We didn't know until we got the follow up because it had obviously blown away or been nicked.

    Anyway we had paid for the parking but the voice recognition software had mistaken an F for an S on our registration so there was a simple provable explanation. The penalty has been waived.

    However the letter says 'I should point out that I shall be unable to cancel and further Notices incurred in similar circumstances'. I was livid by the arrogance of this comment. We had paid and could prove it and it wasn't our mistake. You damn well will cancel future tickets if it happens again!

    I was told if it happens again it will not be cancelled and I would have to go thru' the appeals process which presumably I would win. What a pointless exercise.

    What is wrong with these people? What is the point in penalising people who have obeyed the rules?

    Easier to get money out of people who obey the rules, given they are obviously decent reasonable people.
    Shame they forget the purpose of the penalty in the first place OR it is just considered a revenue generator.
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387
    Which will definitely lose, so the DUP not in danger of actual swinging anything. I wonder if that is deliberate.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 58,941
    RobD said:

    Wait, I thought there were reports the other week suggesting they donations to the Tories were actually quite healthy?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-politics-47392658
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    edited March 2019
    Stories of Tory donors not giving money, is a bit like hearing unions not going to give Labour money. When the time comes and it is Tories vs Corbyn, both will get the funding they need from their respective backers.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Just a way of ducking the issue and allowing them to claim support for a positive option that isn't realistic.

    Really Bercow should take Malthouse out of the equation.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    Wait, I thought there were reports the other week suggesting they donations to the Tories were actually quite healthy?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-politics-47392658
    Are we saying that FT might doing some of that Fake News?
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 40,950
    If the indicative votes work as they should do then the DUP lose their leverage. Of course it would be critical to know the timeline for them to no confidence the govt.

    Perhaps they realise that it's all up. Indicative votes mean they don't hold the balance of power any more so if they were sensible* they would row in behind the govt.

    *I know
  • JackWJackW Posts: 14,787
    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 47,786
    CD13 said:

    Mr Glenn,

    "We know that some voted Leave thinking it would mean we ended up staying."

    I think Theo talks perfect sense, but I never shared his optimism about the EU reforming, and I think he'd be even more likely to leave now. Federalism decided him, and it did for me too.

    https://twitter.com/theopaphitis/status/1070342265695027200?s=21
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 7,979
    IanB2 said:

    Just a way of ducking the issue and allowing them to claim support for a positive option that isn't realistic.

    Really Bercow should take Malthouse out of the equation.
    I'm sure he will.
  • RobD said:

    Wait, I thought there were reports the other week suggesting they donations to the Tories were actually quite healthy?
    Not enough when you consider there's a major set of locals coming up.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    JackW said:

    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
    And change his name to Olivia and go by the pronoun of they.
  • kjhkjh Posts: 10,456

    malcolmg said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    We really have plumbed new lows in the self-awareness stakes when Casino Royale is accusing other posters of being pompous and rude.

    Funny old world.

    Is this get Casino day today, he is getting a concerted pasting last couple of threads. Get in among them Casino.
    Thanks Malc.

    There’s a cluster of morons who like to fornicate awkwardly together in the basement of this site now, and it’s about time they were called out on it.

    I think they’re upset I was right about the PV numbers on the march at the weekend, and can’t bear to admit it.

    I’d take ten of you any day of the week over one of them.
    CS I suspect this is going to be a waste of time because I did try the other day and got rebuffed but when someone posts: 'We really have plumbed new lows in the self-awareness stakes when Casino Royale is accusing other posters of being pompous and rude.' How does a reply of: 'There’s a cluster of morons who like to fornicate awkwardly together in the basement of this site now, and it’s about time they were called out on it.' do anything other than reinforce that impression?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 58,941

    RobD said:

    Wait, I thought there were reports the other week suggesting they donations to the Tories were actually quite healthy?
    Not enough when you consider there's a major set of locals coming up.
    Fair point, and the FT look like they are discussing the current state rather than last quarter.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    RobD said:

    Wait, I thought there were reports the other week suggesting they donations to the Tories were actually quite healthy?
    Not enough when you consider there's a major set of locals coming up.
    Plus they don't get Short Money.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Lol @ Vaizey taking the piss out of Barclay.

    Any limits on blue on blue have long since disappeared.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 38,836
    It must be quite likely that Labour's JobsFirstBrexit wins this contest, possibly with REF2. If so, if that is to be govt policy, then it strikes me that the most appropriate PM to take that forward is one Jeremy Corbyn.

    Meaning the 'Next PM' market on Betfair would settle as - yes - Jeremy Corbyn.

    Meaning that yours truly, a person who prides himself on being perhaps the most astute political punter of his generation, will be losing many many units of moolah.

    Yikes.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,695
    JackW said:

    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
    Troll-Max or Poll-Tax that is the question? :D
  • JackWJackW Posts: 14,787

    JackW said:

    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
    And change his name to Olivia and go by the pronoun of they.
    There is precedent - Maggie used the Prime Ministerial "we". :smile:
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Mogg is struggling here. He doesn't have so much sway with his colleagues.

    Wishart starts his speech mocking JRM's 1500s references.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    JackW said:

    JackW said:

    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
    And change his name to Olivia and go by the pronoun of they.
    There is precedent - Maggie used the Prime Ministerial "we". :smile:
    Well we all know this never sleeping thing was fake and actually she had a body double like Melania Trump ;-)
  • JackWJackW Posts: 14,787
    GIN1138 said:

    JackW said:

    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
    Troll-Max or Poll-Tax that is the question? :D
    Or Conservatives dancing on a BREXIT pin head - A Maypole Tax ....
  • OnlyLivingBoyOnlyLivingBoy Posts: 14,911
    Surely calling an election is the only way the Tories will get any money at all. Especially if they ditch May as the first step.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    edited March 2019
    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.
  • JackWJackW Posts: 14,787

    JackW said:

    JackW said:

    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
    And change his name to Olivia and go by the pronoun of they.
    There is precedent - Maggie used the Prime Ministerial "we". :smile:
    Well we all know this never sleeping thing was fake and actually she had a body double like Melania Trump ;-)
    You mean Steve Nallon ?!?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkVqCYdR0Y
  • RoyalBlueRoyalBlue Posts: 3,223
    Malthouse really is nonsense on stilts, much like the DUP’s stance that any checks on intra-UK trade are an abomination, but divergence on marriage and abortion are A-OK.

    The so-called loyalists are loyal to no-one but themselves.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810

    CD13 said:

    Mr Glenn,

    "We know that some voted Leave thinking it would mean we ended up staying."

    I think Theo talks perfect sense, but I never shared his optimism about the EU reforming, and I think he'd be even more likely to leave now. Federalism decided him, and it did for me too.

    https://twitter.com/theopaphitis/status/1070342265695027200?s=21
    Chortle.

  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 20,392
    JackW said:

    JackW said:

    TOPPING said:

    JackW said:

    GIN1138 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Meanwhile, Letwin is enjoying himself greatly.

    Oh how lovely for him...
    Well if we can't have a Scottish peer as the next Prime Minister then a knight of the realm, in the personage of Sir Oliver Letwin, will have to do.

    Interestingly the last knight and peer to be Prime Minister was the one and same Alec Douglas-Home .... a Scot !! .... :smiley:
    To make Letwin the next Cons PM would be trolling Lab immensely. First a woman, then a Jew.
    Prime Minister Letwin should go for Troll-Max - Have his bits off (part of the way already) and while the surgeon is at it, have a leg off - The first Jewish, Disabled and Transgender PM.
    And change his name to Olivia and go by the pronoun of they.
    There is precedent - Maggie used the Prime Ministerial "we". :smile:
    Who can forget: "We are a grandmother"
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 61,546
    Abrams does not sound as though she's ready to be Biden's running mate just yet...

    https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1110892422597357569
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Surely calling an election is the only way the Tories will get any money at all. Especially if they ditch May as the first step.
    No warchest. Ditch May, steady the ship, build up war chest, 2020 election.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 38,836
    So, we have MPs voting on a list which mixes up outcomes and processes, we have the Cabinet not voting at all, we have Labour whipping it but the Tories not, we have absolutist MPs who will only vote for one thing and more tolerant ones who will vote for multiple options, we have MPs wishing to evolve a middle ground compromise, others intent on gaming the process to get their extremist nirvana, and we have both the government and the main opposition party machinating to ensure that the whole thing collapses into chaos and solves precisely nothing.

    It's a thing of beauty!
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 35,755

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,349
    Mr Glenn,

    Now I suspect his earlier speech was for the TV. He claimed a Leave vote would make the EU see sense. On being proven wrong, he becomes frit of a no-deal. Sounds like reverse Bo-Jo to me. Smells like BS. Aren't you the slightest suspicious?

    Ah, bless.

    But Remainers will always believe what they want to. And as Prof Curtis said yesterday, very few voters have changed their minds. A few non-voters from 2016 may have gone for Remain but will they vote? .
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    kinabalu said:

    So, we have MPs voting on a list which mixes up outcomes and processes, we have the Cabinet not voting at all, we have Labour whipping it but the Tories not, we have absolutist MPs who will only vote for one thing and more tolerant ones who will vote for multiple options, we have MPs wishing to evolve a middle ground compromise, others intent on gaming the process to get their extremist nirvana, and we have both the government and the main opposition party machinating to ensure that the whole thing collapses into chaos and solves precisely nothing.

    It's a thing of beauty!

    Yep, I think you nailed it!
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    Not really.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080

    kinabalu said:

    So, we have MPs voting on a list which mixes up outcomes and processes, we have the Cabinet not voting at all, we have Labour whipping it but the Tories not, we have absolutist MPs who will only vote for one thing and more tolerant ones who will vote for multiple options, we have MPs wishing to evolve a middle ground compromise, others intent on gaming the process to get their extremist nirvana, and we have both the government and the main opposition party machinating to ensure that the whole thing collapses into chaos and solves precisely nothing.

    It's a thing of beauty!

    Yep, I think you nailed it!
    Bercow could yet make some sense of the mess MPs have tabled.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    RoyalBlue said:

    Malthouse really is nonsense on stilts, much like the DUP’s stance that any checks on intra-UK trade are an abomination, but divergence on marriage and abortion are A-OK.

    The so-called loyalists are loyal to no-one but themselves.

    One is devolution that is under locals control, the other is barriers that are out of their control.

    You can't comprehend the difference?
  • RoyalBlueRoyalBlue Posts: 3,223
    edited March 2019
    Nigelb said:

    Abrams does not sound as though she's ready to be Biden's running mate just yet...

    https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1110892422597357569

    Having lost the election, she clearly has an unorthodox definition of success, much like Corbyn and his admirers.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    Jezza can claim he did everything to stop Brexit.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Some Tories now speaking up for Letwin - pointing out that while they have been voting for May's deal the Brexiters have been voting it down.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 35,755
    IanB2 said:

    Some Tories now speaking up for Letwin - pointing out that while they have been voting for May's deal the Brexiters have been voting it down.

    An entirely fair point.

    JRM, Mark Francois, Bojo, IDS et al have been fighting tooth and nail to prevent Brexit.
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    kjh said:

    malcolmg said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    We really have plumbed new lows in the self-awareness stakes when Casino Royale is accusing other posters of being pompous and rude.

    Funny old world.

    Is this get Casino day today, he is getting a concerted pasting last couple of threads. Get in among them Casino.
    Thanks Malc.

    There’s a cluster of morons who like to fornicate awkwardly together in the basement of this site now, and it’s about time they were called out on it.

    I think they’re upset I was right about the PV numbers on the march at the weekend, and can’t bear to admit it.

    I’d take ten of you any day of the week over one of them.
    CS I suspect this is going to be a waste of time because I did try the other day and got rebuffed but when someone posts: 'We really have plumbed new lows in the self-awareness stakes when Casino Royale is accusing other posters of being pompous and rude.' How does a reply of: 'There’s a cluster of morons who like to fornicate awkwardly together in the basement of this site now, and it’s about time they were called out on it.' do anything other than reinforce that impression?
    It is easy to get sucked into tit-for-tat exchanges, and eventually you have a feud. One rule I try to observe is never to carry over from one thread to the next. As Balfour said, Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all.

    Balfour of course was a Scottish old Etonian who went to Trinity, Cambridge and was a published philosopher, the same path followed by Oliver Letwin. See, this isn't just thrown together. :)
  • Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    Corbyn has as little control over his Party as May over hers. If backbenchers want to defy the whip, they are unlikely to hold back. It's not as if the current Leader was supportive of the Leadership when he was on the back benches.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,008

    RoyalBlue said:

    Malthouse really is nonsense on stilts, much like the DUP’s stance that any checks on intra-UK trade are an abomination, but divergence on marriage and abortion are A-OK.

    The so-called loyalists are loyal to no-one but themselves.

    One is devolution that is under locals control, the other is barriers that are out of their control.

    You can't comprehend the difference?
    We can comprehend they're talking bollocks if they claim they believe in no divergence as a matter of principle.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    No. This is laughable from Corbyn.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Division on going ahead with Letwin. Looks like it will carry despite government opposition.
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,349
    Mr/Ms Anazina,

    You do see Theo isn't a fan of TM's deal. Nor are a lot of leavers (or me for that matter). The EU are and that tells you a lot. We still pay, we still stay until the EU give us permission to leave. That's why they'd like the May/EU deal versus Remain. Illogical, as Mr Spock would say.

    A second clarification referendum of Mrs May's deal versus a hard Brexit/no deal would make more sense. Even Theo would agree. Why isn't that on the table?
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,008
    kinabalu said:

    So, we have MPs voting on a list which mixes up outcomes and processes, we have the Cabinet not voting at all, we have Labour whipping it but the Tories not, we have absolutist MPs who will only vote for one thing and more tolerant ones who will vote for multiple options, we have MPs wishing to evolve a middle ground compromise, others intent on gaming the process to get their extremist nirvana, and we have both the government and the main opposition party machinating to ensure that the whole thing collapses into chaos and solves precisely nothing.

    It's a thing of beauty!

    Wait - do you mean this isn't all going to be sorted out today?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Presume there is a typo in his tweet. She just won't let go.
  • kjh said:

    malcolmg said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    We really have plumbed new lows in the self-awareness stakes when Casino Royale is accusing other posters of being pompous and rude.

    Funny old world.

    Is this get Casino day today, he is getting a concerted pasting last couple of threads. Get in among them Casino.
    Thanks Malc.

    There’s a cluster of morons who like to fornicate awkwardly together in the basement of this site now, and it’s about time they were called out on it.

    I think they’re upset I was right about the PV numbers on the march at the weekend, and can’t bear to admit it.

    I’d take ten of you any day of the week over one of them.
    CS I suspect this is going to be a waste of time because I did try the other day and got rebuffed but when someone posts: 'We really have plumbed new lows in the self-awareness stakes when Casino Royale is accusing other posters of being pompous and rude.' How does a reply of: 'There’s a cluster of morons who like to fornicate awkwardly together in the basement of this site now, and it’s about time they were called out on it.' do anything other than reinforce that impression?
    It is easy to get sucked into tit-for-tat exchanges, and eventually you have a feud. One rule I try to observe is never to carry over from one thread to the next. As Balfour said, Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all.

    Balfour of course was a Scottish old Etonian who went to Trinity, Cambridge and was a published philosopher, the same path followed by Oliver Letwin. See, this isn't just thrown together. :)
    Not sure the Balfour Declaration hasn't mattered much.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    IanB2 said:

    Presume there is a typo in his tweet. She just won't let go.
    Who will go first her or Bercow....At this rate, 2022 GE it will be May vs Corbyn with Bercow standing for re-election as speaker.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 35,755
    edited March 2019
    _Anazina_ said:

    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    No. This is laughable from Corbyn.
    It seems silly too, for the Cabinet not to participate, if the aim is to actually determine what the median position in Parliament is.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Chris said:

    RoyalBlue said:

    Malthouse really is nonsense on stilts, much like the DUP’s stance that any checks on intra-UK trade are an abomination, but divergence on marriage and abortion are A-OK.

    The so-called loyalists are loyal to no-one but themselves.

    One is devolution that is under locals control, the other is barriers that are out of their control.

    You can't comprehend the difference?
    We can comprehend they're talking bollocks if they claim they believe in no divergence as a matter of principle.
    They don't want divergence forced on them as a matter of principle.

    Divergence where they choose to diverge is a different matter.
  • StereotomyStereotomy Posts: 4,092
    IanB2 said:

    Presume there is a typo in his tweet. She just won't let go.
    Called it!
  • EndillionEndillion Posts: 4,960
    IanB2 said:

    Presume there is a typo in his tweet. She just won't let go.
    "Next" for "not".
  • StereotomyStereotomy Posts: 4,092
    _Anazina_ said:

    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    No. This is laughable from Corbyn.
    Surely there's only a problem if one of the options is whipped differently, by either party, in indicative votes than if it were potentially voted on for real.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,080
    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    No. This is laughable from Corbyn.
    It seems silly too, for the Cabinet not to participate, if the aim is to actually determine what the median position in Parliament is.
    The government is effectively opposing and boycotting - likely to be defeated on opposing and its boycott will be no more effective than any other abstention from a democratic process. Truly it's pitiful and just underlines how power is slipping away from them.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 47,786
    CD13 said:

    Mr Glenn,

    Now I suspect his earlier speech was for the TV. He claimed a Leave vote would make the EU see sense. On being proven wrong, he becomes frit of a no-deal. Sounds like reverse Bo-Jo to me. Smells like BS. Aren't you the slightest suspicious?.

    He’s not a politician. Are you slightly paranoid?

    Here’s an earlier tweet.

    https://twitter.com/theopaphitis/status/902876668066373632?s=21
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    Indeed.

    No. This is laughable from Corbyn.
    It seems silly too, for the Cabinet not to participate, if the aim is to actually determine what the median position in Parliament is.
  • tpfkartpfkar Posts: 1,545
    If Letwin's business motion is defeated (surely not) then at least he'd hold the record for the shortest-serving PM in history....
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,623
    Would be ironic if after all the talk they then failed to pass the motion to actually have the votes.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    tpfkar said:

    If Letwin's business motion is defeated (surely not) then at least he'd hold the record for the shortest-serving PM in history....

    Even Letwin can't be that incompetent.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 35,755
    tpfkar said:

    If Letwin's business motion is defeated (surely not) then at least he'd hold the record for the shortest-serving PM in history....

    Again, I don't see the point of voting against it. MP's voted in favour on Monday. Let's see what they can do.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    No. This is laughable from Corbyn.
    It seems silly too, for the Cabinet not to participate, if the aim is to actually determine what the median position in Parliament is.
    Yes, that's also risible. Just make the whole thing a free vote.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 61,546
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387
    _Anazina_ said:

    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    Sean_F said:

    From the Guardian live blog:

    Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman confirmed that the party would whip for Margaret Beckett’s “confirmatory public vote” option - as well as Gareth Snell’s and Ken Clarke’s, calling for a customs union, and of course the one setting out Labour’s own Brexit policy.

    And he said whips would be “encouraging” Labour MPs to support common market 2.0, the cross-party proposal drawn up by Stephen Kinnock, among others.
    ..
    "The basis for that is that they’re all in line with our policy - in the case of the public vote motion, in the sense of our conference policy that if we’re unable to achieve a general election, keeping all options on the table. So the intention is to support those options going forward in the process"..


    In other words, having voted for the indicative vote motion which seeks to find a way forward, Labour actually wants to ensure that there isn't a way forward. Got it.

    Is there any point to an indicative vote which one side whips?
    No. This is laughable from Corbyn.
    It seems silly too, for the Cabinet not to participate, if the aim is to actually determine what the median position in Parliament is.
    Yes, that's also risible. Just make the whole thing a free vote.
    They've effectively just paired themselves out. Which is fine.
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387
    Jackie Walker expelled by Labour say Jewish Chronicle
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,274
    edited March 2019
    Activist Jackie Walker expelled by Labour for 'prejudicial' and 'grossly detrimental' comments

    Three years after she was first suspended by the party, Jackie Walker has been expelled from Labour for making comments that were “prejudical” and “grossly detrimental” to the party, the JC has learned.

    https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/activist-jackie-walker-expelled-by-labour-1.482177
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 75,837
    Nigelb said:
    India should be made a pariah state for this, it completely litters up earth's orbit and can endanger rockets being launched etc.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 35,755
    I doubt if it's difficult to guess what the DUP will say.
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