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Westminstenders: Flextension

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RedToothBrush · 21/03/2019 22:37

Just wrote an intro and wiped it. So this is as quick as I can sum up.

EU response is extension to 22nd May if May passes her deal by 29th March

Or an unconditional extension to 12 April which could be extended with a plan and understanding to take part in EU elections.

This isn't what may wanted. It gives her less time and leverage

It opens up the possibility of her being ousted as PM in the next couple of days. Graham Brady asked her to quit on Monday. Remain Cabinet ministers are threatening to quit if May whips a vote to support no deal.

The talk is May has indeed flipped to supporting no deal with many think she's pretty much gone full on Colonel Kurtz.

The EU are in effect supporting parliamentary sovereignty and are being incredibly reasonable.

May now has to decide whether to accept.

The whole situation looks explosive and likely that one half of the cabinet or the other are on the brink of walking. And May's power is so shattered.

However she remains the gatekeeper and as it stands if she's hell bent on no deal, it will be extremely difficult for Parliament to prevent that.

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havingtochangeusernameagain · 22/03/2019 10:55

I don’t know where [Gove] stands on No Deal

In the Sunday Times last weekend there was an article about stockpiling and it said that he had stopped supporting no deal over the issue of water purification tablets. So in theory if that could be overcome, he might vote for no deal but it seems more likely that he doesn't want a complete basket case scenario. Whatever you think of him, he's not stupid, and did a reasonable job while Minister of Justice.

Trekkingbeyond · 22/03/2019 10:56

It must be a lot less exhausting to disengage for sure!

Horehound · 22/03/2019 10:57

Hmm not sure i believe the petition numbers to be be honest. And im also not sure it wipp count fir anything.

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RedToothBrush · 22/03/2019 11:00

Henry Zeffman @hzeffman
PA: Tory MP Christopher Davies has pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to two expense fraud charges.

Davies has voted for May's deal both times. So if this results in him leaving the Commons anytime soon that's bad for May

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Sostenueto · 22/03/2019 11:02

Yea mentioned that clip of Berkow yesterday. Isn't he just wonderful! He can come and referee for me anytime!Grin

Sostenueto · 22/03/2019 11:03

You will believe tomorrow at the march horehound

67chevvyimpala · 22/03/2019 11:03

Are any of you meeting up tomorrow?

Should I buy a red toothbrush???

SusanWalker · 22/03/2019 11:03

DD and I are watching BBC parliament and making signs for tomorrow. Grin

Can't we have Bercow for PM. He wouldn't be afraid of telling the country a few home truths.

1tisILeClerc · 22/03/2019 11:07

Steady on Sostenueto or you will be ending up on the AIBU threads!

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RedToothBrush · 22/03/2019 11:07

UQ. Labour shadow Brexit sec asking what the procedure for the 12th April cliff edge is.

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TheElementsSong · 22/03/2019 11:08

I can't imagine any of us will be able to meet up tomorrow but I am thinking of wearing a red toothbrush anyway Smile

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RedToothBrush · 22/03/2019 11:11

The HoC is incredulous at the persistence to go for the MV. This is coming from both sides of the House.

Kwertang is getting a hard time from just about everyone.

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lonelyplanetmum · 22/03/2019 11:11

Are any of you meeting up tomorrow?

I am bringing a dozen friends plus also meeting one MNetter and possibly two.

If posters I recognise want to try and join us do PM me. We are only meeting at 12 as we think it will be a very slow start.

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RedToothBrush · 22/03/2019 11:14

Much agreement going on between the opposition and the ERG today!

A definite harding against the WA.

If that's frankly possible.

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Sostenueto · 22/03/2019 11:14

lclercGrin. Not many people in HoC for urgent question on article 50.

lonelyplanetmum · 22/03/2019 11:16

I have a giant red bath/toothbrush.

LarkDescending · 22/03/2019 11:16

Kwarteng is wishing he had found somewhere else to be on a Friday morning.

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RedToothBrush · 22/03/2019 11:18

If you were Kwasi Kwertang I honestly don't know how you'd get out of bed atm with this shit he's having to defend and he himself knows it's total fucking shit.

Chris Bryant has more or less said he understands and sympathises with the ridiculousness of Kwertangs position and knows he knows that its just as shit as they all do.

It's ludicrous!

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SparklySneakers · 22/03/2019 11:20

Mum and I had a lovely 15 minutes watching YouTube clips of Bercow on YouTube the other day. She thinks he should be PM too.

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RedToothBrush · 22/03/2019 11:20

He's being laughed at and jeered at by everyone.

He mentioned something about a free vote on something then back tracked rapidly.

I've never seen anything like this!

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IsFuzzyBeagMise · 22/03/2019 11:22

Best of luck tomorrow on the march.

ContinuityError · 22/03/2019 11:22

Christopher Davies: Conservative MP admits two expenses fraud charges

Hahaha.

He is my Brexiteer DM’s MP. According to her it’s a witch hunt and he would never have been prosecuted if he had been Labour or Lib Dem.

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RedToothBrush · 22/03/2019 11:24

Andrew Slaughter Labour "I am tempted to ask the minister what he had for breakfast as that might be a question he can answer."

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SparklySneakers · 22/03/2019 11:26

Parliament live is my favourite show!

TatianaLarina · 22/03/2019 11:27

Alexander Clarkson @APHClarkson

So in @faisalislam's report just now, Vince Cable claimed that Theresa May in her meeting with opposition leaders said that ”the people voted for pain" when asked about the damage No Deal might wreak.

Faisal Islam @faisalislam

Yes LibDem leader did say this of his meeting with PM just before the Downing St speech - I have the clip.