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My timeline is full of fellow Remainers desperate to believe Labour's latest BS this morning. Corbyn is going to let you down. Really. 1/
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What will happen is this: Labour will back the Cooper-Letwin amendment on Wednesday, and claim (wrongly) that this takes no deal off the table. It doesn't. It kicks the can a short way down the road. 2/
Then, on 11 March, Labour will table its own version of the Kyle-Wilson amendment, saying it can't support the original because it "would be wrong to back a Tory Brexit". The groundwork is already being laid for this approach. 3/
The net effect will be that the vote on PV amendments will be split between Kyle-Wilson and whatever nonsense the leadership comes up with. Neither will pass. 4/
Labour will then claim it tried its very best to secure a PV, but now this has failed, it has no choice but to abstain on the "meaningful vote" on May's deal ("we can't vote for a bad deal, but we won't precipitate no deal"). May's deal squeaks through and we're out. 5/
Job done. "Tory Brexit" has been delivered. Labour is then free to claim it's all the fault of the perfidious Conservatives and Blairite quitters. Tragic, but "we didn't have the votes. What else could Jeremy have done?" Ends/.
