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Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak
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It's not going exactly to plan, and is a bit behind schedule, but rather a lot of the leaked grid does appear to be, the govt's actual grid - the one that 'wasn't the plan'....currently expect Brexit vote to be Weds 12th December bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
It's going to feel a bit like an election, except May is only candidate and MPs are the voters - get ready for it with #Brexitcast which will be ready for download bright and early in time for your journey to work (unless you're up at horror o'clock like me)
will post link then - almost it for tonight except.....
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1. Open the notebook back up at the last page before Christmas in Westminster and it doesn't feel like there many new lines that need to be written
2. No 10 trying to eke out more reassurances on time line of backstop from EU, and find a way to make MPs feel they'll have more of a say
3. EU has no intention of major change to legal agreement that's been sweated over - nor do MPs show sign yet of swinging behind May's compromise deal in anything like the number it would take to give her a real shot at getting it thro next week
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Meanwhile... Labour attempt to force vote on no confidence in PM pretty risk free for them - it isn't a way of actually forcing a vote that might collapse the govt, just embarrassing the PM and tying govt up in knots
Early indiciations are that ERG brexiteers would back the PM, but that could change - let's see what DUP decides
Ah... Sammy Wilson has just told us DUP won't back Labour if they manage to get their vote in the PM
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A lot of echoes of morning after election when PM gave a speech that she could have given almost any day of the campaign - she said she had listened in that speech just there, but showed v little intent of changing v much at all
Of course her colleagues in govt relieved that she can try to carry on but it's a survival not success tonight - another big knock to the PM's credibility, and no solution at all to the gridlock in Parliament - she's survived, her brexit compromise can't in its current form
But the one uncertainty removed, she can't face another vote of confidence from her own party for a year - but that doesn't mean the govt can get through another period like this in Parliament
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1) if you believe that #Brexit will be damaging, you *cannot* argue that #PeoplesVote or #RevokeA50 will be "damaging"

These figures don't tell the whole story, it's a lot worse
Perhaps half of the 46% hate "no deal"
& half hate May's deal

They can't all be happy after Brexit
2) at best even today either Brexit on offer will only please 30% of the country, the rest will feel let down or betrayed by politicians.

And when #Brexit actually bites those against it will easily top 65%

3) Its simply not democratic to push something few will like and most will hate, especially when people have been lied to concerning "cost free/jobs first #Brexit"

Meanwhile charlatans like Mogg & Corbyn will play the line - ahh, but *our* Brexit would have been better
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1) Options available on #Brexit - thread
To try to help out with understanding I'm going to go for the simplest explanation I can of the options in front of the country re A50, Deals available etc based on my understanding

Here goes
2) briefly to begin with, there are 3 #Brexit options & 2 Article 50 options
Brexit options:
- No deal
- May's deal
- Remain

Article 50
- Revoke A50
- Delay A50

3 routes to Remain
- GE with a Labour Remain ticket
- 2nd Ref with a Remain option
- Revoke A50 via vote in HoP
3) Revoke A50
can be revoked by the UK alone, without agreement of the EU & we go back to the *exact* same deal we have now (rebate, no Euro etc)

However it must be a revoke in "good faith", we revoke because we are staying indefinitely, not as a pause whilst we have a rethink
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I am proud to PRESENT a short Ladybird book Brexity #Brexit tale THERESA MAY AND THE MAGIC CHAMBER POT @theresa_may
One day Theresa Met a dubious character called nigel he offered her a magic Chamber pot if she just said Brexit means Brexit it would spew Brexit all over the kingdom and give her all the power she could dream of and was what the people wanted @theresa_may
When Theresa took the The magic Chamber pot home she said #Brexit means Brexit and the pot soon started spewing brexitiness all over the kitchen @theresa_may
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There an awful lot of extremely right wing Conservatives, with links to the libertarian think tanks based on Tufton Street, commenting on @BBCNews at the moment... #Brexit #ConfidenceVote
So far this afternoon/evening... Jacob Rees Mogg (GLOBAL BRITAIN), Michael Gove (VOTE LEAVE, THE NEW CULTURE FORUM), Owen Paterson (BRUGES GROUP, UK2020), John Whittingdale (VOTE LEAVE), Chris Grayling (VOTE LEAVE)... plus Nigel Farage (LEAVE . EU)... and someone from OPEN EUROPE
plus... Andrew Bridgen (LEAVE MEANS LEAVE)
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Govt seems to be paying price for never adjusting to post-election Parliamentary #brexit reality.
PM's aim was to force her preferred outcome (whatever it is) through - rather than test where the votes are
its only on that basis that giving Parliament a "meaningful vote" changes the outcome.. it assumes that her deal was only deliverable with a "meaningless" vote.
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Knowledge, they say, is power

I'm going to do my best to explain the biggest, most important thing Europe does together - Common Standards
There's pretty much nothing you eat, use, sniff or sit on which isn't regulated, made safe and good by EuroNorms.

Hardly heard of them? They work pretty much perfectly. And working perfectly isn't news. So they get ignored. Like your bowels, or, indeed the EU
The 2000-odd volume European Standards library of how-to-do-stuff is set by c50,000 people working with the Standardization Committee (CEN)

If you're a European Country - EU or not - your National Standards Agency is part of CEN cen.eu/Pages/default.…
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