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A few hours ago, I posted a thread about picking "5 fantasy quitters" to join TIG. Thought it would be interesting to compile the results...
People written in more than once:
Yvette Cooper 14
Dominic Grieve 13
Kier Starmer 11
David Lammy 6
Jess Phillips 6
Ken Clarke 6
Justine Greening 5
Tom Watson 5
Hilary Benn 4
Jo Johnson 4
Amber Rudd 3
Caroline Lucas 3
Damian Collins 2
Lisa Nandy 2
Philip Hammond 2
Stella Creasy 2
People written in once:
Chris Bryant 1
David Gauke 1
David Lidington 1
Ed Miliband 1
Ed Vaizey 1
Greg Clark 1
Guto Bebb 1
Jo Swinson 1
Layla Moran 1
Liz Truss 1
Nicky Morgan 1
Phillip Lee 1
Rory Stewart 1
Tobias Elwood 1

That's a neat, tidy 30. Dare to imagine if they all moved!
Non-MPs, head-scratchers etc. (I'm exercising a bit of executive decision here, and I ignored responses that treated it as an "opportunity to fire undesirables" rather than a "real" pick.)
Nicola Sturgeon
David Miliband
Gina Miller
Alastair Campbell
Theresa May
Jeremy Corbyn
A few months back, I did a slightly similar exercise but for a hypothetical "Fantasy Cabinet of the Government of National Unity", and compiled all the responses. There's a lot of cross-over between the two😇
FANTASY GNU CABINET
Heidi Allen
Hilary Benn
Mhairi Black
Ian Blackford
Ben Bradshaw
Thomas Brake
Karen Buck
Vince Cable
Kenneth Clarke
Nick Clegg
Damian Collins
Yvette Cooper
Stella Creasey
Seb Dance
Ed Davey
Ruth Davidson
Andrew Dinsmore
Stephen Doughty
Justine Greening
FANTASY GNU CABINET (CONTD)
Dominic Grieve
Peter Hain
Robert Halfon
Emma Hardy
Lady Hermon
Michael Heseltine
Sadiq Khan
David Lammy
Philip Lee
Chris Leslie
Caroline Lucas
Pat McFadden
Deborah Meaden
Ed Miliband
Gina Miller
Layla Moran
Nikki Morgan
Ian Murray
Lisa Nandy
FANTASY GNU CABINET (CONTD)
Jess Phillips
Anna Soubry
Kier Starmer
Rory Stewart
Wes Streeting
Nicola Sturgeon
Emily Thornberry
Chuka Ummuna
Sarah Wollaston
Leanne Wood

It's healthy to see that the decent people have either escaped already, or are still seen as decent now!
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I get the feeling most MPs just want Brexit to go away. (You and I know that the argument about our future EU relationship will rage for years, but it may feel less raw and pressing to them.) To that end, they're looking for a way to annoy the least number of people.
That may, unfortunately, turn out to be May's deal. Jeremy Corbyn can try and get a people's vote amendment passed, and fail. That's him off the hook with the membership. And Theresa May will say and do whatever it takes.
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My artistically challenged attempt at explaining what's next in the Brexit process... (reposting from yesterday)
And here it is as a PDF...
drive.google.com/file/d/1Mblge5…
And here's a more elegant Brexit roadmap made by somebody who can use a paint package...
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Important: despise the efforts of the media to portray it otherwise, Theresa May is NOT offering MPs a chance to take no-deal Brexit off the table.

What she is offering is much less useful: a vote on whether to leave under no-deal scenario. If that vote passes, we crash out.
If no-deal vote fails, MPs will be offered a vote to delay Brexit by extending Article 50. That's all. Doesn't take no-deal off the table, but merely postpones it by a few weeks or months. Make no mistake, no-deal will remain the default outcome even after *2* votes against it.
That's why the ERG are sounding remarkably relaxed about the prospect of a Brexit delay (though they're making token protest noises). They know:
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B) EU are unlikely to accept a second extension
C) Closer we get to European elections, more stuck we are
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