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Paul Waugh
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I'm told David Lidington has now floated the idea of holding not just a string of votes on Brexit alternatives but also a run-off/AV vote on each of them.
For what this system may look like, see our story from Jan, when @Plaid_Cymru first raised it. @HelenGoodmanMP and Ken Clarke have both pushed similar versions, but none of amendments were called by Speaker. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mps-to-b…
And guess what folks? Run-off systems are used BY BOTH THE TORIES AND LABOUR to elect their leaders.
So, X-factor comes to Westminster? Or Eurovision?
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mays-dep…
Meanwhile, here's a handy guide to AV run-offs vs first-past-the-post on TV reality shows. reading.ac.uk/internal/staff…
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Paul Waugh
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Here we go. @NigelDoddsDUP sounds sombre. Says in relation to reduction in risk, all EU had to do is 'consider' UK objections.
"From what the AG is saying today the fact is NI and rest of UK cd be trapped" in backstop.
Sounds like voting against. Awful for May
See our story.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/britain-…
Dodds not remotely happy with Cox's answer.
Looks like game over for PM deal tonight.
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Paul Waugh
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Theresa May is now seriously contemplating a no-deal Brexit. Here's the story of why:
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/theresa-…
TLDR:
If you're a Remainer, be afraid, be very afraid.
If you're a 'clean Brexit' Leaver, you'll be delighted.
The PM is being swayed by internal polls/focus groups showing she's more popular when she flags no-deal.
Among the many key quotes:
“What worries me now is that it feels like something has changed,” says one MP. “It feels like she’s crossed a line now. She’s boxed herself so far in she’s lost any capacity to pivot, even though she might want to in her head, she’s stuck now.”
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Peter Foster
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Right #Brexit peeps, what is going on? What happens next?

Short answer is its all pretty fluid, but here's what I think I know after usual chats with both etc (1/thread)
May will ask for extension to June 30, per reports.

Less clear if she will also say UK prepared to 'no deal' on June 30. That might be a key omission to watch, on which more later.

So will the EU agree? /2
Not necessarily. As @adamfleming warned this AM - and later confirmed by @JunckerEU interview - EU may say a short extension is "conditional" on May passive her deal next week (presumed new vote Mon or Tues)

That would be a reason for a short extension/3
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katya adler
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EU has almost given up trying to understand what’s going on in UK.
Dutch PM Rutte compares Theresa May to Monty Python knight whose limbs get cut off in a duel but insists the fight was a draw. Elsewhere in EU, mood is darker esp with the prospect of a lengthy #Brexit delay 1
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Anonymous🏴
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Theresa May can't go forward or backward. UK parliament ready to take her down, but she's been the dead wolf since day 1 and she's still here. People without parliamentary democracies don't understand the drama & entertainment they are missing. #BrexitVote
"The vote could be delayed until the day before UK falls out of the EU with no deal." Say what you will about Theresa May, she has created a world where women no longer have to try harder than men, where even the most mediocre woman can hold high office. 🤣
Here's Jacob Rees-Mogg moaning about people "dusting down precedents from the 1860s." 🤣🤣 #TheresaMay #BrexitShambles #BrexitVote
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Jack D 🌹| #GTTO | ✋🏽
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#Brexit *Thread*

To clarify, I am remain, but I feel a 2nd ref is monumentally risky & perhaps dangerous:-

1. Polls haven't changed much, result could easily be the same
2. Another campaign of hate will embolden the far right
3. If remain win. Leavers will demand another vote
4. Chaos & unrest are likely whatever the result, possibly violence too

What happens if it's still 'Leave'? Picture the chaos, square one. You're simply allowing the Tories more time to fail to come up with a solution. Every day that continues people in this country will suffer
What if it's 'Remain'? Leavers will, with some justification, query why this vote is more valid than the first. This has the potential to cause a constitutional crisis.

People can say 'we know the facts now' all they like, that will not placate millions of angry voters.
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Lesley Miller
@LesleyMillercyp
#Brexit 1
Cadbury moved factory 2 Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved 2Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover recently agreed 2 build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, same company who trashed our steel industry & emptied workers pension funds.
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Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
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Dyson gone 2 Malaysia, with EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone 2Poland with EU grant,employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone 2far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys & models gone from UK along with patents all with EU grants
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Pete North
@PeteNorth303
1. The greatest insult to Britain is the promotion of the narrative that any of Vote Leave's activities had any bearing on the result whatsoever. It was probably the most ineffectual campaign in the history of British campaigning. VL had no idea how to run a #Brexit campaign.
2. In the run up to the vote the VL twitter feed was photos of mostly white, mostly middle class 19 year old boys in red t-shirts manning deserted stalls in the Home Counties which had zero online impact.
3. Of the street level activism, no not roll-up smoking, flat cap wearing elderly Yorkshireman on a rainy Wednesday in Castleford street is going to have his mind changed by a clean shaven Toryboy bussed in from London.
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