Westminstenders: Chaos

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If anyone says they know what will happen this week....

... They don't.

Yy to building a fucking wall.

Oh, and northerners think us Midlanders are southern. Southerners think we're northern.

It is like being from no man's land!

I'm now a semi-adopted northerner, however (my vowels are still too long for full integration!).

Did she say something about Scotland? Or has Sturgeon?

I'm London. And I want to be with you lot in Wessex.

King Edward the Elder of Wessex, son of Alfred the Great, captured London in the tenth century.

Kate Hoey, majority 20,250 ... remain signatures 23,358

I suspect a lot of MPs are changing their underwear regularly as they know how the electorate will treat them in a GE

I've missed this somewhere in all the excitement, but does anyone know what time the amendment votes are actually happening?

He’s not selected the interesting amendments then!

Votes around 22.00

twitter.com/HouseofCommons

"The best possible deal for Britain as we leave the European Union delivered by a smooth, orderly Brexit."

That was a commitment in the 2017 manifesto - kind of rules out a 'no deal' doesn't it?

Ken Clarke just said "---surely we should revoke" and BBC cut straight away from the House!

22:00! That's past my bedtime!

@holidayshopping. It sounds like he is deliberately setting down a foundation to find a way forward.

DH was saying, if only the UK was a giant sliding block picture puzzle and we could slide all the Leave areas into one group and the Remain areas into another. And build a big fucking wall.

I understand the emotion here, but while I don't live in a leave area, my staunch remain parents and many remainer friends do. I don't want them behind some new iron curtain.

I'm a Northerner living in the Midlands. In a Leave constituency with a hardline ERG MP. I claim political asylum in the People's Republic of Free Wessex.

I've been at meetings all day and only just caught up

22:00! That's past my bedtime!

The World Tonight on R4 is good.

She responded to Ian Blackford by saying that Scotland voted to stay in the UK and therefore it voted to accept leaving the EU as part of the UK

Her "answer" and I use that word in the broadest possible sense ignores the fact that the final stages of the "Better Together" campaign (especially after it looked like Yes might win ) concentrated on scaremongering that Scotland would be "kicked out of the EU"

I met EU citizens (who had the right to vote in the Indyref) when I was out canvassing for Yes who had been told by No canvassers ahead of us that they would be kicked out the day after a Yes vote!

If Scotland had voted to accept Leave, then I am sure it would have been reflected in their vote in 2016. Does May realise the Scots voted Remain? Does she even know where Scotland is? She ought to with a Geography degree but you have to wonder.

The petition just whirred past 5, 555, 555 on splasho - they played ode to joy and confetti came raining down.

You are more than welcome TheWoollybacksWife to come and live in harmony in the United Lands of Free Wessex and Scotland. Perhaps you would like to consider standing for election to our travelling caravan parliment of the people?

Ok so I feel forced by circumstances to reveal my total constitutional ignorance as it’s now essential to understand what is going on ...

If parliament have a majority vote for something, does that thing become law? Or only in certain circumstances? (Empirically must be in certain circs - but what are they?)

I thought the vote against no deal was law because it was attached to something else at the time (??I know this is the “1066 and all that” version of political knowledge )
.. but TM doesn’t appear to respect it.

Can the PM overrule/ignore something which is voted as law?

I have tried to google. I’m no clearer. Is there someone here who can explain in very simple language?

If there’s bad stuff going on I want to understand it.

I lost but ultimately won a (friendly) argument with a friend who sitting on the fence re the Indyref. She ended up voting No because she do strongly wanted to be sure of remaining part of the EU, even though I told her the greater risk to our membership was if we stayed part of the UK.

She promised faithfully that if I was right and she was wrong, she'd campaign for Independence. She's stood by that promise - along with her dh and his sons and her daughters

pmk

A geography degree? We used to joke at law school (initially the conversion course, where most of us were either History, Eng. Lit. or PPE grads) that it was a degree in colouring in (sorry to anyone with that degree)!

She must go home and cry, the sustained attacks she (deservedly) gets in the house. How unbelievably stubborn must you be to not even consider that your way is the only right way?!

All leavers can go live on the Isle of White