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

Getting a cup of tea and looking at this shit:

During the coalition we put out statements like this sometimes to try and kid ourselves that we’d got some kind of meaningful concession before voting in a way we felt wasn’t right. We weren’t fooling anyone, and neither are you...

— Tim Farron (@timfarron) October 18, 2019

imagine just... writing that

he was kneeling in the confession booth at the time.

‘we knew we were gonna be condemning tens of thousand of people to death and countless others to lives of even deeper misery but 🤷‍♂️’

... that's politics *jazz hands*

In the last 8 years don't think I have ever had as many messages from people in the govt in a single day that included the word "c***"

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) October 19, 2019

I am not sure, btw, that this vote going through is the be all and end all, just means deal can be voted on and debated. Or so I tell myself after finally switching this shit on.

DUP will vote for Letwin amendment.

— Ken Reid (@KenReid_utv) October 19, 2019

fingers crossed, about to hear the counts, feeling vaguely like I'm waiting for an exam

Deal going through (which I don’t think will happen) could mean a Tory vs brexit party election with the hard right breaking away from the tories.

The hard right are in the Tory Party and voting for the deal.

good luck uk

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Edward_Carson_Vanity_Fair_9_November_1893.jpg

Deal going through (which I don’t think will happen) could mean a Tory vs brexit party election with the hard right breaking away from the tories.

Surely the opposite? (i.e. if the deal doesn't go through?)

It could go that way, if the BXP think this hard deal is still too soft. But I think the “just make it stop” leave vote will be sated.

The hard right will not be happy if this bill passes, they could take it as a capitulation.

Think we’ve won Letwin amendment...

— Mary Creagh (@MaryCreaghMP) October 19, 2019

How can it take 15 minutes to count a couple of hundred votes?

the inefficiency of our shamefully bloated public sector iirc

Serco or Capita could do it in half the time.

badly

Phew

Letwin amendment made it through. 322 to 306.

great, let’s shut it down and go home

YES

I'm relieved even though I don't understand what I'm relieved about.

Keep racking up those losses, BJ.

16 votes is way bigger than I’d thought. Will post the list when it’s up.

Fairly sure that I heard John McDonnell heckling.

Just want to point out Oliver Letwin had Times and Telegraph journalists in his mentions telling him to pull his amendment yesterday. Love too live in a country with a free press.

xxp

I'd love to be the bookie boris uses, would retire after a month.

I'm relieved even though I don't understand what I'm relieved about.

cosign

Boris has to send an extension request by 11pm tonight. Benn Act has been activated.

I'm relieved even though I don't understand what I'm relieved about.

otm!

what happens if he doesn't send the extension request? re Boris saying "I will not negotiate a delay with the EU. And neither does the law compel me to do so."

..and if he doesn't parliament can write an extension request on his behalf I read somewhere

God I hate that Letwin gets a win.

_I'm relieved even though I don't understand what I'm relieved about._


otm!

what happens if he doesn't send the extension request? re Boris saying "I will not negotiate a delay with the EU. And neither does the law compel me to do so."

"The PM will not ask for an extension - he will tell EU leaders there should be no delays, they should reject Parliament's letter asking for a delay, and we should get Brexit done on October 31 with our new deal," Downing Street says.

It’s bullshit. It’s not “Parliament” that sends it, it’s the PM, as Benn says.

Here’s the votes:

https://commonsvotes.digiminster.com/Divisions/Details/721

There's millions of people in the capital within a short walk of Downing street. Surely they could send a delegation to help BJ see how the world looks as a pendulum from a lamp-post. Sure he'd have a vital new perspective from the end of a rope.

Look who voted against the amendment:

https://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/services/images/MemberPhoto/4137/

might have been tempted to think that grey blur was Dominic Grieve, but he didn't vote against it. Frank Field?

It's what the people of Dudley would've wanted

Come on, have you forgotten what he looks like already - it's Rory Stewart of course!

omg wanderin' Rory Stewart!

don't make me post the supermarionation jpg

(amphibian) profiles in courage

bestpic.jpg strikes again!

I cannot stand Jo Swinson's horrible Anglo-Scottish vowel sounds.

In the sense that she comes across as a self-hating Scot?

Quote of the day goes to @PeterBoneUK: “I'm fed up. It’s been a complete waste of time. And it’s spoilt my birthday because it’s my birthday today.”

— Chris Morris (@BBCChrisMorris) October 19, 2019