Westministenders: Deadline Day #1

[RedToothBrush]

We have hit another Deadline Day.

As it stands, the EU are looking for more progress. May is digging in her heels by suggesting there is new a requirement for backstop to a backstop. The backstop to all intents and purposes is the GFA. So May is saying in effect, that the EU are forcing her to put in provisions to protect an international agreement we are signed up to, and if we breech it we risk peace in NI.

After lots of noise it seems that the Cabinet have decided to stick by May. For now.

The EU look like they are talking as if their meeting next month will exclude the UK and just go straight to No Deal planning.

There is also other talk of alternatives to allow the UK to stay in the customs union. But theres not much to that and it still doesn't solve the ERG and the DUP problem.

May is vastly unestimating how much the ERG and the DUP want to break the GFA. Which is a huge misjudgment.

There is also talk of the final final Deadline Day actually being Dec 13. For various reasons its not. Thats 29th March.

So Wednesday is Deadline Day #1. Expect more.

This is me

For every one marching they will represent at least 2 or three more.

I can’t go, as can’t my 100 year old mum and 90 year old aunt along with the rest of our family, who all support the people’s vote and remain.

Both Mum and her sister remember what Europe was like before some of the countries joined in such a peaceful enterprise - the ECSC and Mum watched it grow from there. She is utterly bewildered that the U.K. is willing to throw aside such a powerful force for good.

I am writing on her behalf as she is clueless when it comes to social media. Not all elderly folk were bamboozled by the MSM, some of us do actually use the odd brain cell!

twitter.com/Devon4Europe/status/1053530135343910913
Devon (8 coaches!)

twitter.com/LancasterForEU/status/1053532700445937664
Lancaster

twitter.com/chesterforeu/status/1053537094944112640
Chester

twitter.com/NE4EU/status/1053373334501638144
North East (The Sunderland overnight bus)

twitter.com/ValeforEurope/status/1053544889902944256
Vale of Glamorgan

twitter.com/Cardiff4EU/status/1053545804839948293
Cardiff

twitter.com/ShropsForEurope/status/1053538806413094912
Shropshire

twitter.com/NYorksEurope/status/1053561290264887296
North Yorkshire

twitter.com/LeedsEurope/status/1053551728740704258
Sheffield

twitter.com/ChesterfieldEU/status/1053559506750373888
Chesterfield

twitter.com/cambridge_stays/status/1053570339781992448
Cambridge

twitter.com/Cornwall4EU/status/1053534004513771520
Cornwall

There are many many more tweets from individuals going by train and car from all over the country.

These ones were all from groups on coaches.

There were a lot more.

Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak
Trouble ahead - Brexiteer @SteveBakerHW has placed amendments to Northern Ireland t.co/nmaBNia8Zx - ERG can easily use Parliament to try to force govt policy

Altogether now

TRAITORS FRUSTRATING THE BREXIT PROCESS

Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn
Senior Brexiteer calls for Leave voters to boycott any second EU referendum - as ex MI6 chief backs one.

www.thesun.co.uk/news/7539499/daniel-hannan-boycott-referendum/
Leading Brexiteer Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has urged Leave voters to boycott second EU referendum

MR Hannan told Al Jazeera he believed a second referendum would be utterly illegitimate

I must be a bit dim - I’ve only just realised the Peoples Vote logo is in the suffragette colours.

Hope it’s as big as it looks on Twitter.

I m on one of those 8 coaches from Devon!

As a brit in Europe denied the right to vote (ballot paper arrived too late), I'm getting a bit tearful seeing the pictures of people going off to march. Especially seeing as I don't think it'll make a blind bit of difference. The government don't give a shit and the rest of Parliament are too cowardly to take a stand.

Cambridge train is packed apparently.

A lot of helicopters in the sky over London today, no sporting events I know of so looks like the media are investing in covering it...

Liverpool train packed too.

Marching today! Not organised enough to get a red tooth brush (or a sign ) but will be keeping an eye out for you.

Never marched before but this is too important to do nothing. Feeling excited!

Especially seeing as I don't think it'll make a blind bit of difference. The government don't give a shit and the rest of Parliament are too cowardly to take a stand.

There are two newspapers I keep to remind me of important things in life. One is dated the 21st March 1993. One is dated 16th February 2003. The day after the day before.

They don't just remind me of what happened. They remind me of bigger things. Some good. Some bad. Things that are as relevant today as they were then.

Both events had effects in unexpected ways. The knock on effect may not be, and perhaps is unlikely to be, a people's vote.

It does not mean its pointless nor does it mean that its a failure because it did not achieve its stated goals.

This is a time when there are lots of people who need symbolism and need to come together. That's important.

Do not underestimate the value of it nor capacity of the ripple effect.

< fist bumps > to your mum and aunt, whitewave and of course to you
Those of us who can't make it can still give online moral support

Hannan calling on Leave supporters not to vote in any 2nd ref:

• sounds like he's worried there will be one !
• people who boycott votes do so when they think they won't win
• remember all those Leavers telling Remainers who didn't vote - especially the young - that it meant they had to suck it up

Yes BigChoc I saw that.

Seems like a weird thing to do?

Is it so if the vote doesn't go their way they can say it's not valid?

www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-89up-evidence-17-19/
Details of a quarter of a million pound anonymous campaign to “chuck Chequers” found on Facebook submitted to Committee

This is a link not to a newspaper report but an update from the Digital Culture Media and Sport Commons Select Committee

🙂 May the force be with us all

I have attended all the marches from my home in a very Brexity area and today, for the first time ever, there are some others with placards in my train carriage.

More on this:

Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak
Trouble ahead - Brexiteer @SteveBakerHW has placed amendments to Northern Ireland bill publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0275/amend/NIEFEoF_rm_cwh_1019.pdf - ERG can easily use Parliament to try to force govt policy^

Sam McBride @SJAMcBride
This is uncomfortable for the Government - & not just the Brexit amendments. The amendments from the Tory chair of the NI Affairs Select Committee, @AWMurrison, (likely to get DUP support) would see a beefed up scrutiny role for the committee - more creeping direct rule.

ERG POWER GRAB FOR NI.

Wish I could go to the march. Virtual hugs grom me to all who attend!

Thank you to all who are marching!

I couldn't red toothbrush. I have an orange one. Please wave if you see me!

This from the bbc

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45925542

A placard saying I'm 16 Brexit stole my future is pictured