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The idea that the Speaker is - on this occasion - abusing the privileges of his office may well be seen outside parliament as far-fetched. In most walks of life, when people vote twice by a HUGE margin for or against a proposition, that's seen as settling the issue. What...
would surely bring the Commons into greater disrepute would be the perception that MPs could change their minds on a third occasion because of threats and bribes - or because at the last they decide to back a deal they see as thoroughly bad simply because the perceived...
alternatives are worse. The history of the UK is not one of a nation settling for mediocrity for fear that it does not have the resource and will to do better. And if MPs were to face the accusation they approved a thoroughly bad Brexit simply because the time ran out to...
do better, there would be a reckoning, in even greater erosion of respect for Parliament and Parliamentarians. All current Brexit outcomes carry risk. The question is which do least harm to confidence in our most important structures and institutions, those which underpin...
our way of life.
