• There's not a majority in favour of the draft withdrawal agreement, otherwise May wouldn't have pulled the vote. There's not a majority in favour of withdrawing the Art 50 notice and remaining in the EU, as Labour members would be whipped against voting for it, and they and the ERG nutters would together carry enough votes to vote it down. There's not a majority in favour of leaving with no deal, because only the ERG are stupid/blinkered enough to think that's a good idea. The alternatives involve cake, unicorn poo and magic fairy dust..

  • There's not a majority in favour of withdrawing the Art 50 notice and remaining in the EU, as Labour members would be whipped against voting for it

    I'd pay good money to hear those conversations.

  • I'd pay good money to hear those conversations

    This - the Whips' office would have to have some serious shit on some of their MPs to 'persuade' some of them.

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