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Letwin voted on first. No biggie, but the next 15 minutes could determine the rest of our lives
Get in! 329 yes, 302 no. Government defeated. The EU offered Parliament the right to take back control, and Parliament finally bloody took it.
Wednesday night is going to be an absolute corker.
It had better be good, because Thursday is my birthday and I absolutely do not want to be tweeting about fucking MV3 that evening.
Anyway Beckett is up in a few minutes, the amendment that guarantees Parliament a vote to put the emergency brake on no-deal if we’re a week away from it. I hope it passes because otherwise my op-ed tomorrow is going to be ambivalent af
Beckett loses! 311 in favour, 314 against. Parliament wants to take back control but sees no need to stop no-deal if the government decides to ignore Parliament and hurtle towards it. Seems legit. WTF could go wrong?
As so often, Parliament issues two completely contradictory messages in one set of votes. If May really does intend to complete her suicide mission, then Parliament will shrug its shoulders and let her. Hard to conceive of a more cowardly and self-defeating move.
Final motion passes 327-300. So two people voted for the Letwin amendment and then voted against the motion which enacted it. What did we do to deserve these people?
Anyway, Parliament’s voted to take back control. They’ll surely try to stop no-deal if gov ever lurches towards it. But my god it would’ve been easier if they’d just voted for Beckett too. Anyway, on with indicative votes: the first step towards resolving this one way or another.
A massive 30 Tories sensed urgency of occasion and voted for Letwin, including 3 ministers who resigned to do so and also Costa who resigned the other day. 8 Labour MPs, including Flint, Cooper and Barron, shamefully voted against- to give all their power to May. Amazing times.
Gareth Snell abstained on Letwin and voted against Beckett. John Mann did the opposite. Totally lost.
Still, the night belongs to Suella Braverman, who kept it in proportion on #newsnight just now by calling Parliament’s decision to take back control a ‘massacre’.
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The biggest LOL in all this is that unless Labour MPs come over in their droves, she still won’t get the deal over the line. The Tory Brexiteers will have sacrificed any vestiges of dignity, credibility and principle for absolutely nothing in return
Just picture it. Mogg & Johnson scrambling to explain they didn’t mean we’d be a slave state (Mogg) or deal was detonating a suicide belt (Johnson), it was just a fair compromise in national interest - and then deal falls again and May stays in post! These people are obscene.
Here’s the key. 2 groups still have no incentive to budge: Tory Remainers/Ind Group, and Labour MPs. Why on earth would Lisa Nandys of this world vote for a deal that hasn’t changed just to help Tory right defenestrate their leader?

Deal deserves to go down in flames, and must.
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May complains Corbyn wants Brussels to negotiate trade deals on our behalf. Perhaps she hasn’t read up on what her indefinite backstop would involve #PMQs
This exchange is so pointless. Until all sides recognise that the economy only makes it through this with full membership of the single market *and* customs union, MPs will just keep talking to themselves and throwing their constituents to the wall #PMQs
Genuinely unwatchable now. I could almost cry with despair. #PMQs
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The EU has given us three weeks to try and avoid setting fire to our jobs and economy and this grandee of the ‘party of business’ responds by calling for extra petrol
What has happened to the Tory party? Whatever we used to say about them, they were always serious and they at least had some people’s (rich people’s) interests at heart. Now they’re prepared to see the entire country indiscriminately burn. Why? Seriously, why?
As for David Davis: he defies belief. UK negotiator, one of our most senior politicians, who called for same benefits of membership. Now he explicitly wants no benefits, and wants them right now. Is it sadism, masochism, idiocy or lunacy or just a total epic national breakdown?
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