Diluted Dante wrote:Sounds like May is moving towards an extension. Not because it's important to get the right deal of course, but to prevent cabinet resignations.
poprock wrote:May does not deserve praise for accidentally doing one thing right. The bar is set really fucking low these days, isn’t it?
https://labour.org.uk/press/labour-table-amendment-make-credible-alternative-plan-uks-brexit-negotiating-position/Labour’s amendment would force the government to make its credible alternative plan the Government’s negotiating objectives.
Labour’s five demands for the Brexit deal are:
A permanent and comprehensive customs union with the EU;
close alignment with the Single Market underpinned by shared institutions and obligations;
dynamic alignment on rights and protections;
commitments on participation in EU agencies and funding programmes, including in areas such as the environment, education, and industrial regulation; and
unambiguous agreements on the detail of future security arrangements, including access to the European Arrest Warrant and vital shared databases.
Jeremy Corbyn will tell a meeting of Labour’s Parliamentary Labour Party this evening that the party will back the Cooper-Letwin amendment to take ‘No Deal’ off the table and announce that Labour will also put forward or support an amendment in favour of a public vote to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit.
RIGHT SO - there is some overexcitement going on with the Labour announcement. Understand party does NOT mean they are going to back all efforts for 2nd referendum. ie probably not this week. the frontbench effort is into their own amendment on their own Brexit deal
BUT what it does mean is if that amendment is rejected (spoiler alert, it will be) then Labour will back or table an amendment for a public vote if the only other option left on the now very sparse table is a "tory brexit deal." in practice, that could mean Kyle-Wilson.
And for clarity, Kyle-Wilson's amendment endorses May's deal, but puts it to public vote and is intended to be tabled not this week, but at the next Meaningful Vote, likely to be March 12.
Having said that, with all those caveats, it is a *significant shift*.
No final decision on Kyle-Wilson because it hasn't been finally drafted. And clearly some unease about anything that endorses May's deal, whatever the caveat.
Time_on_my_hands wrote:If there's a second vote and remain isn't an option, things may get a little more... interesting?
Yossarian wrote:Actually, missed this bit: on the 29th. She wants to keep no deal on the table for future talks as it’s proven such an effective negotiating tactic so far.
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