EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

The Conservatives with the DUP had the votes to pass Article 50 whatever the Labour leadership whipped. Abstaining or voting against would have just guaranteed Labour would be excoriated by the press just as they were beginning to get their manifesto message across to a wider audience.

Possibly interesting...

https://twitter.com/number10staffer

Isn’t it blatantly fake?

That's what I thought

Doubt it'll be there by morning.

This one interesting...

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Can't see anything that unusual wrt deletions on Politiwoops

Everything deleted by a Tory from July onwards:
https://www.politwoops.co.uk/search?date_from=2019-07-01T02%3A00%3A00%2B02%3A00&group=11&party=205&politicians=no&q=%2A

Amusingly most of the recent deletions of older tweets seem to be from Tories who were tweeting their support for somebody other than Boris Johnson for the leadership (haven't seen anything brexit-specific though)

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So the Labour Party voted for legislation they didn't agree with in an attempt to appease the right-wing press and get them to stop attacking it? Hhhmmm. How's that plan working out?

Poorly but to suggest they could have stopped or delayed it is a distraction I think. We are where we are now because of the Conservative Party and latterly their enablers in the DUP.

Isn’t it blatantly fake?

Yup, I thought the same. Interesting to follow, or more to the point see who else is following it though - some serious journo-types, as well as the usual nutcases (I include myself here).

May offered them the exact same deal three times and refused any and all meaningful alterations to it because red lines. In that circumstance, what can parliament do apart from repeat the same answer?

Some light relief in the form of Piers Morgan being verbally pissed on.

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Made me lol that, cheers.

https://medium.com/@MrMichaelShaw/three-charts-that-sum-up-the-uks-craziness-right-now-91e456f196c5

Depressingly though, the number of people on the No Deal = V Good-Acceptable Compromise is still way too high.

Have got https://tacticalvote.co.uk ready just in case

Has the increase in popularity of the LibDems and Greens changed much?

Parliament could have said what it wanted instead of May's deal. It had the opportunity to do so, without being bound by May's red lines. It failed to do so, because MPs couldn't agree on an alternative. Twice. Parliament has been very good at turning down May's deal, but spectacularly poor at agreeing on an alternative.

start talks

https://twitter.com/SteveBarclay/status/1166765868891725825?s=19

Facepalm.jpg

We haven't done the analysis yet... or rather, it's not me that does that bit and it's underway.

Unbelievable little thread. Seems to think we're going to leave without a deal, but with deals to keep things working smoothly, but it'll still be no deal

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/30/labour-has-support-for-legisation-to-block-no-deal-says-chakrabarti

Let's hope. It'll still be messy, though. Another public vote of some sort is absolutely necessary at this point.

🇬🇧&🇪🇺 understand & agree that our wealth creators need to be able to move freely between our territories.

Freedom of movement you say? Knobhead.

A decent article

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/brexit-deal-or-no-deal

Parliament could have said what it wanted instead of May's deal. It had the opportunity to do so, without being bound by May's red lines.

They were whipped votes. Too many spineless careerists toed the line. (Or to be very, very charitable - thought that supporting the government would result in a deal eventually).

Has this been resolved yet?