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Faisal Islam
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Sir Oliver Letwin - “we will not allow a No Deal exit at the end of March” and this amendment shows the Government... “for 5 years I was in charge of the resilience of this country...preparation for no Deal wasn’t done... we can not impose on our country a risk of severe impacts”
Letwin almost emotional there - bit between tooth on stopping No Deal will vote for Cooper amendment, said as former Cabinet Office minister responsible for resilience - essentially UK not ready for No Deal. This said as a loyalist who fought hard to get A50 Bill through for PM
Nick Boles sounding pretty furious now about Tory MPs sniping... says manifesto clearly not Moses tablet

“did not say No Deal is better than any deal..” says No Deal prep woeful.

“I will vote on any legislation proposed by anyone that we will leave EU with a deal or not at all”
important parliamentary moment here - Treasury Minister Robert Jenrick being cornered over No Deal by Letwin, Clarke, Cooper - Brexiter Davies says his colleagues are attempting to “blackmail Government” over Brexit
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Faisal Islam
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Former Foreign Sec Boris Johnson tells the House of Commons in Meaningful Vote the public will conclude “there is a plot by the deep state to frustrate Brexit”.
Johnson Quote is here: “we can’t delay A50 because After 2.5 years of procrastination the public would accuse of deliberately setting out to frustrate their wishes because the public would conclude there is a deliberate plot to kill Brexit”
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Faisal Islam
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It’s here:
“As you know, we are not in a position to agree to anything that changes or is inconsistent with the Withdrawal Agreement...”
Repeats December Council conclusions reassured that those conclusions have “legal value”
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In an eve of vote speech tomorrow in a top pro-Brexit area PM will say, acc to Downing St “based on the evidence of the last week, she now believes that MPs blocking Brexit is a more likely outcome than leaving with no deal”.
Meanwhile Johnson, Davis, Raab, Patel - 12 former ministers in total write an open letter to all Tory MPs urging them to vote it down “it will not lead to no Brexit or to an early GE”
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1. It is reasonable to assume the government will fail the Meaningful Vote.
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Amendment D here, which should be voted on today, is crucial: If Grieve and others can get this thing through, they will have secured a meaningful vote on no-deal publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cm…
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So, the 'deal' is exactly what we expected: remain by 'stealth'. Britain will remain subject to EU austerity, ECJ, privitisation of public assets via 'competitive' regulations, the NHS, mass unemployment, etc. Which is precisely what May & Co voted for.
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Tutorial on how to make a map using QGIS. I'll turn @SenhorRaposa's 2000 Vermont town data into a map showing by how much Gore outran Senator Jeffords (or vice versa) in every town.
Step 1: Download QGIS for your computer, which is available here:
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