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Brexit latest (h/t @Steven_Swinford ). May will use a 7-option indicative vote, unveiled tomorrow morning, in a final attempt to scare Tory MPs into voting for her deal. 1/ She refused to set a timetable for her own departure, thus piling pressure on Tory right...
2/ It looks like the options will *exclude* Labour's plan for Customs Union + close alignment with EEA, though she is calling this "Boles Plan" and using it to scare Tories that it will be the default option. She is right on that...
3/ Though nobody actively wants a Norway+ arrangement it is like the bottom of a valley: it is where the water will flow along the path of least resistance. What does all this mean?
4/ May is still actively fighting to be prime minister. All the briefings to the Sunday papers that she was nuts, or cracking up, have to be read as pure partisan journalism by the Tory right's allies...
5/ The warning by Brexit minister @SteveBarclay that voting for Norway+ or CU means triggering a general election is a further ratchet against parliament: if you vote in a way I don't want I will collapse the house of cards she's saying...
6/ In the country, things are changing. There's a strong No Deal mood among some Leavers and rising confidence among Remain that we can defeat the entire right wing racist project of hard Brexit...
7/ The EU - political class, media, many citizens - highly delighted by Saturday's demo: I was in Barcelona on @FAQSTV3 and this was evident. Even in Juncker and his neoliberals hate the idea of remain and reform, the demo resonated across the continent...
8/ Labour - and the supporters of Boles - have to fight to put a Norway style deal on the order paper. We should force our own policy onto the agenda. If not, Labour should actively whip for the second referendum. That's the logic of the conference motion...
9/ Refusal to support the second referendum as a confirmation vote defies party policy and the position of the Labour leadership and if Labour MPs can't support it they can't be on the front bench. There's plenty of talented replacements...
10/ Finally people wondering when will Labour find a generation of rising left leaders to mirror @AOC @RashidaTlaib etc should watch the videos of the Left Bloc rally on yesterday's demo: that's the future of radical social democracy in Britain.
