Brexit, for once some facts.

50Hertz

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really?
Not necessarily
they like whipping up resentment at the Daily Express.
The logic is simple: if there are enough MPs to support her deal, then the same MPs can ask Bercow to allow the vote.
Bercow only stops tentative canvassing.
 

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You have to stop watching the thread, there is a button for that up top "unwatch".
 

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they like whipping up resentment at the Daily Express.
The logic is simple: if there are enough MPs to support her deal, then the same MPs can ask Bercow to allow the vote.
Bercow only stops tentative canvassing.
My money's on that being a lost cause, and a longer extension with hoc taking control and consequently a much softer brexit. But i may be losing perspective by thinking too much about the next swim in the med
 

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My best Guess is they will get past Bercow by putting an amendment forward to cancel his pronouncement, and Mays deal get voted in
Fear will rule
 
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My best Guess is they will get past Bercow by putting an amendment forward to cancel his pronouncement, and Mays deal get voted in
Fear will rule
Perhaps,but a long extension is seductive to ERG types and remainers, a bit like gambling streak, all sorts of possibilities, whereas may's deal. Well what can one say about may's deal. Its depressing.
 

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Polly Toynbee has some flattering words to say about the DUP in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/john-bercow-brexit-peoples-vote

"The Speaker has frozen events at a shamefully low point in May’s progress. That once mighty Tory party power machine is submitting itself to the crudest blackmail by DUP Bible-bashers and bigots, bent on destroying hard-won peace on their island. Their mouths stuffed with gold, promised a Stormont lock (though they wrecked Stormont), these past masters of leverage dangle their support. But they may yet withhold it, as the government dances attendance on their every poisonous word, vassals indeed."

Quite kind words really
 
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Perhaps,but a long extension is seductive to ERG types and remainers, a bit like gambling streak, all sorts of possibilities, whereas may's deal. Well what can one say about may's deal. Its depressing.
Erm... we know you are busy brexiting and all that but did you notice we are having EU parliament elections soon?

Either you are in or you are out by then and as we all know you don't have a plan: "Off with their heads" said the Queen of Hearts
 

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France’s EU minister names her cat ‘Brexit’ because ‘he meows loudly to be let out but won’t go through the door’

France’s minister for European affairs says she has named her cat “Brexit” on account of its indecisive nature.

Nathalie Loiseau told Le Journal du Dimanche that her pet meows loudly to be let out each morning, but then refuses to go outside when she opens the door.

The comments from the French government’s lead in Brexit talks come ahead of a decision by EU leaders on whether to extend the Brexit negotiating period at the request of the UK. And this week will see a possible third rejection of Theresa May’s Brexit deal by the House of Commons.

“He wakes me up every morning meowing to death because he wants to go out, and then when I open the door he stays put, undecided, and then glares at me when I put him out,” Ms Loiseau said.
 
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oldgroaner

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This image sums up the tragedy of brexit


It's tragic that these people who have every right to demonstrate for what they believe in are abandoned by the likes of Farage.
He should have had the guts to stick with them
Despicable rat. He took "Leave means Leave" to include them.
These people deserve our respect.
Wll he have the arrogance to magically reappear at the end of the March?
 

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Erm... we know you are busy brexiting and all that but did you notice we are having EU parliament elections soon?

Either you are in or you are out by then and as we all know you don't have a plan: "Off with their heads" said the Queen of Hearts
If things are delayed long enough (a year or two) for us to have Euro elections - what will happen with Farage now he's not with UKIP - presume if he wanted to continue to be a continuing PIA in EU parliament he'd have to stand as an independant / or was he thinking of forming new party or sumfink.
 

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A cautionary reminder from Bloomberg
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In the long history of British politics, the role of the Speaker in Parliament has at times been perilous: Between 1394 and 1535 seven holders of the office were executed by beheading.
Though it has to be said mostly after they quit office!

There are some in Theresa May’s government who joke that such a fate is too generous for the incumbent, John Bercow, who effectively banned the prime minister from putting her Brexit deal to another vote in the House of Commons.
 
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A cautionary reminder from Bloomberg
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In the long history of British politics, the role of the Speaker in Parliament has at times been perilous: Between 1394 and 1535 seven holders of the office were executed by beheading.
Though it has to be said mostly after they quit office!

There are some in Theresa May’s government who joke that such a fate is too generous for the incumbent, John Bercow, who effectively banned the prime minister from putting her Brexit deal to another vote in the House of Commons.
Well if they had not quit before,I am sure they quit soon after. It needs a big mouth to shout Order .
 

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