PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

whoops

Has she had the whip withdrawn?

she doesn't get kicked out, today's vote was NOT being treated as a confidence vote. poor excuse for a rebel.

what happens when the boss takes your whip

The boss can’t tell you what to do but if there’s an election called you don’t get to stand as a conservative mp again - which means certain loss & no access to party activists or funding

More trouble for Boris. Lots of Tory backbenchers in a 1922 Committee meeting with the PM now just cheered Edward Leigh and Damian Green for speaking up for the 21 rebels, and booed Dan Kawczynski for attacking them.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) September 4, 2019

IDS on his seat. Hope someone mentions his nose picking

Love too hear a member of Parliament talk about “virtue signalling”

Tbf you rarely see pols indulging in gestural bullshit

xp

roughly "i think the member for Uxbridge is shouting at me. the last time he shouted at somebody the police had to be called"

I'm lying here watching far more of this rubbish than I'd be able to cope with normally

Skinnock gang going hard for their amendment which will pretty clearly not pass

will no-one think of the politically homeless

Some horrendous contributions before the division there

I'm pretty sure it's not just fear of their own Leave-voting constituents but more importantly a way of them continuing to undermine the leadership by any means possible

Voting on the Skinnock amendment now

It'll lose by hundreds imo

HOLY SHIT

do we think that one ramification of all this may be to make the reheated may deal palatable enough to pass post-EU conference ?

Shenanigans

what?

Skinnock amendment may have passed on a technicality - no tellers

I've been listening but am in a state of complete disbelief!

chess is now 6D apparently

6d shenanigans

love the Lords/Commons duo vision screens. I don't have fucking clue what's going on like!

fs

bill torpedoed?

Nobody is certain. I think the amendment that may have passed means MPs have to another vote May's WA before Johnson has to request an extension

do we think that one ramification of all this may be to make the reheated may deal palatable enough to pass post-EU conference ?

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seems pertinent now

It's certainly Skinnock's plan but it looked to me like the amendment would have been voted down, God knows if this is deliberate or incompetent and who's behind it

What the fuck

If it’s a lack of tellers for the noes then it’s the fucking government’s move.

Certainly feels like a possibility suzy

https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.5878629!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg

a cunning parliamentary heist no doubt, but the WA is still going to get voted down so ultimately futile.

No tellers came down with a bad case of fractured hyoid

There was some weirdness in the division prior which took forever despite being a 400-majority "nay", something seemed afoot

is running down the clock the game then?

no No tellers, we’ll reach for the sky
No gesture too cheap, no manoeuvre too sly

OK the amendment has passed, my guess is government fuckery

It means that when/if the government has to ask for an extension, it has to say that the purpose of the extension is to pass May's bill.

lol

Big big win, my amendment to publish the withdrawal bill passed. We can now have an informed debate and hopefully secure a deal the House can accept. I both astounded and delighted!!

— Sarah Champion (@SarahChampionMP) September 4, 2019

Cramborne not in his seat, maybe trying to work out what the fuck happens next

Commons clerk:

I’m not sure what this amendment actually does. It attaches a purpose for the desired extension, but it doesn’t actually compel the Government (or anyone else for that matter) to actually introduce a Bill.

Am I missing something? https://t.co/5ROz1patdx

— Graeme Cowie (@woodstockjag) September 4, 2019

xp hopefully deselection

Hate the word frit, always sounds like the past tense of frot

Careful, you’ll have LBI in here with some
more Mr Blobby chat

pm frits

just had massive row with my French gilet-jaune father-in-law who literally was like 'a deal? why do you need a deal? what deal are you talking about? that's all bullshit, the PEOPLE have decided' - he's very anti-EU and his lip was quivering and he was being a complete asshole to me about it and what could i say, my wife is sitting there horrified, and I'm like, i live here, this is important to me, if we don't have a deal there will be real economic problems and he's like "stop, stop, no, that's all lies". he says Europe is trying to "humiliate" the UK by making it beg. for a deal. which he has just said is unnecessary. i mentioned that the EU actually did offer a deal, which they negotiated with theresa may's government and he just said "that's not true." it's just impossible to speak to him because there is no shared set of facts.

For a bloke who doesn't want an election he keeps saying election