Westminstenders: Chaos

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

... They don't.

Parliament makes law by passing a bill that becomes an Act of Parliament (a "Law") or by passing a Statutory Instrument which gives the govt. the power to make such a law when it chooses.

If the House of Commons passes a resolution, "That This House do blah blah blah," then that is the 'will of the House," which the govt is supposed to respect or it risks a confidence motion, which if it loses, it is out, General Election.

fluffy
but we geographers can map read the best pub crawls

South Glos looks good for Wessex circa 871 AD.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex (No idea why wikipedia map legend in French either).

For Midlands - could revert to Danelaw. Be in the EU then...

From The Guardian

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general, says he thinks the case for revoking article 50 is getting stronger. He says he is concerned by reports that the cabinet has been influenced by what is best for the Conservative party, not what is best by the country.
Lidington says the PM has always been guided by the national interest.

Hahahaha. Like fuck she has.

De lurking to suggest my constituency of Bristol West as the capital of the United Lands of Free Wessex and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

pretty I like your friend thought that leaving the UK and risking EU membership was insane behavior. It never occurred to me that the UK would do this, as you say we were told the exact opposite!

Ds1 made the case for reverting to the danelaw :)

How unbelievably stubborn must you be to not even consider that your way is the only right way?!

I am precisely this stubborn. The difference between me and Theresa May is I'm not trying to run a country this way.

I'm just glad my dgd changed from wanting a geography undergraduate course to one on psychological and behavioural sciences/ cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Perhaps after hearing TM had a geography degree and seeing this Brexit shit created by her (or in dgds words a Priminister who is desperately seeking another brain cell to keep her solitary one company) she's decided not to be tarnished by a geography degree and seek a degree that might one day cure the lack of brain cells in the PM.

Great TV, all that Hygge, plus as much bacon and lager you can consume.

What's not to like?

No Deal is much worse for NIs electricity supply than I'd realised. www.gov.uk/government/publications/trading-electricity-if-theres-no-brexit-deal/trading-electricity-if-theres-no-brexit-deal

Mmmmmm

Bacon and lager....

I'm glad Berkow encouraged backbenchers to vote if they can on indicative votes and not be discouraged by the fact that the PM isn't going to even consider the outcome. I do admire that man! ( drifts off to Berkow dreamland)

Zak Goldsmith: votes 28,588, majority 45

Current Revoke petition signatures, 25,755

sos
Please do not tar all us Geographers with that brush.
Most of the ones I know were on the march on Saturday
not that we managed to find each other in that crowd though

Zak Goldsmith: votes 28,588, majority 45 

Current Revoke petition signatures, 25,755 

My current constituency!

Does anyone have a list of the amendments they're chatting on about?

Think of this in Bercowland

...It's a Bear. .....It's a Cow. ....It's a Bercow

pmk

Could anyone please post a link on the petition/constituency figures please.

PMK. Have just emailed my MP (again) to remind her that as the PM has effectively ignored the will of parliament for the last however many weeks, that probably meant she could legitimately ignore any whips in the next few days to vote to stop no-deal and to consider a vote to revoke if necessary. I also said she could jump ship to the Tiggers and that would be great but I’m not getting my hopes up.

dontcallmelen

Do you mean this one?

www.livefrombrexit.com/petitions/241584

Fluffy - it was already Conservative Party policy to hold a referendum and Cameron had guaranteed that if he won the next election, he'd hold the referendum to shut up the anti EU faction . As I said to my friend, he was assuming relying on the LibDems to continue in coalition with him so that he would be able to use them as the excuse not to hold the referendum.

I could remember the shock of 1992, so wasn't going to assume that the Conservatives wouldn't win the election outright, (let along that Labour might win it as she thought ) The fact that it was even being talked about by the largest party was enough of a risk for me.

but we geographers can map read the best pub crawls

Ah, now that is a win!

Scooby That vote against No Deal is a tough one to enforce, because the HoC didn't specify what it wanted,
just what it didn't
e.g. if it had said Revoke if No Deal is otherwise inevitable, that would have been a clear course of action required.
But they bottled it

The HoC - SOOOOON - has to choose another one of the limited available options

If the HoC refuses them all, then May & the govt can claim the vote was impossible to honour

That depends though on May allowing the HoC to vote on everything else.
Let's see if she supports Oliver Letwin’s amendment for Wednesday to be set aside for a series of indicative votes.
... and then IF there is a clear winner, whether she goes for that.