re: #43 Joe Bacon 🌹

Ah Theresa D Twit loses another Commons vote 308-312 ruling out No Deal.

Amazing she continually loses votes yet still keeps the seals of office…

Jeez: just a four-vote majority? And with 30 MPs absent/not voting? It could very easily (too easily) have swung the other way: the next step in the dance is an amendment to push the bail date back to May 22: wonder how that will pan out….?

ADD: From BBC: the next vote:

With the government defeated on the Spelman/Dromey amendment by four votes, Conservative MP Damian Green now stands to move his amendment (f).

This amendment (f), referred to as the “Malthouse Compromise”, sets out the process for a “managed no-deal”. It requests:

The government publishes tariff schedules

An extension of leaving to 22 May 2019

“Mutual standstill agreements” between the UK and EU until the end of 2021, including payments to the EU

A unilateral guarantee of citizens’ rights