The Commons has rejected an attempt by Labour to reinstate child refugee protection rights in the Brexit bill.

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www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-51028024

Boris Johnson may have won a majority in Parliament, but he did not win the moral argument to absolve himself of responsibility to some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

My heart breaks for these poor families.

They have no humanity.

Blame Labour - that's what happens when you run a rubbish election campaign with an unpopular leader. There are serious real world consequences.

No, blame Boris.

I wondered when the word Cunt would be fitting.
There's no better word to describe him.
Those poor people, poor kids who didn't ask to be born. There again, how many has he fathered?

I hate the Tories, I really do. I try to respect all political opinions, and even learn from them I really do, but honestly.

It's so frustrating because they did this (and other dick moves today, I've been following it) partly just as a 'f you' to Labour.

I am so saddened that the UK piblic voted in a man who would let this happen.

I worry for ethnic minorities and back door law changes. There's evidence of this already, they were gearing up before the election.

The original commitment was put in by the Lords, I expect they will put it back in next week, then it will go to the Commons who will have to think again. In the mean time everyone should write to their MPs so that when the Commons are asked to vote on the Lords amendment they vote differently.

This is heartbreaking and makes me fucking mad.

What can I do? Anyone got any genuine idea?

And the MP for Stratford upon Avon voted against and guess what?... he fled as a refugee aged 9! Pull up the drawbridge eh?

I guess the Tories were whipped to vote that way. But surely they could go against the whip? What's the worst that could happen to them?

@summerpavillion - kill chance of promotion to junior minister or PPS, worse office allocation, cold shoulder from colleagues, ostracisation, bullying and intimidation by whips and ultimately deselection before next election.

Corbyn coped with it fine, how many hundreds of times was it?

@BingoLittlesUncle

Can I ask, why do you blame Labour for this? Do you not blame the party that actually voted and whipped against this?

For what it's worth, I blame the Tories and Boris Johnson for their own actions, and the people who voted them into power. People knew what they voted for.

Callous bastards basically. As expected.

This is all just pandering to the racist Leave/Tory voters who I suspect will wholeheartedly approve of the Tories voting this down. After all, I suspect these refugees, child or not, may be (gasp!) foreigners, worse still, they may also be brown.

Blame Labour - that's what happens when you run a rubbish election campaign with an unpopular leader. There are serious real world consequences.

It's not labour's fault the tories vote the way they have done.

A party isn't absolved its responsibility for its choices just because another party didn't manage to stop a vote going through

moctodtensmum
The original commitment was put in by the Lords, I expect they will put it back in next week, then it will go to the Commons who will have to think again. In the mean time everyone should write to their MPs so that when the Commons are asked to vote on the Lords amendment they vote differently.

Thank you. Good advice.

I'm not at all surprised by this. Could see it coming a mile off like a train on fire with no breaks. I'm also very disappointed the UK voted in this kind of shitness but hey, what can you do? Apparently Corbyn was scarier than shit like this.

And yes they probably were whipped to vote that way. In the past of Boris' premiership going against the whip has resulted in being expelled from the party. You'd probably need to be quite brave to go against the whip and I just genuinely don't think there are that many Tory ministers who have the backbone. That said, there are of course a few. I wonder how many DID vote against the whip here..

@damntheman you can see the vote breakdown here, it shows not one conservative MP voted in favour of the amendment to reinstate the protections. So nobody voted against the whip votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/742

ugh that's massive depressing. But thank you for the link!