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Jonathan Lis
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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
Blackford at least takes back some control of decent parliamentary rhetoric. He asks, entirely fairly, why another Tory PM is planning to save themselves and sacrifice the country #PMQs
May is just dire. MPs across the House pleading to know what the government’s Plan B is, and each time she simply responds ‘Plan A’. Effectively this translates as ‘you voted this down, I’m not going to listen until you change your mind’, and she doesn’t even try to hide it #PMQs
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Jonathan Lis
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So we’re all clear, that deal that a couple of weeks ago betrayed 17.4m people now needs to be voted through so those 17.4m people don’t get betrayed
Also, what? Shame on DUP? The people who voted to keep UK in full internal alignment in accordance with their most basic principle, and which used to send the Sun into orgiastic celebration? Does Sun really want Brexit more than an economic Union? Because it’s time for choices
Truly, this revolution has been eating itself for so long that now it just shits itself
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Jonathan Lis
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Let’s be very clear about this. The government has set a devastating trap for MPs today. It’s pretending the vote is just about the ‘admin’ of passing the withdrawal agreement, with debate on political declaration to follow. It’s a lie. Please, MPs, do not fall for it.
EU gave 22/5 as new date if gov can pass withdrawal agreement (not necessarily political declaration) by today. If MPs do so, we’ll be on a conveyor belt either to passing May’s deal unamended, or leaving with no-deal at all, and nobody will be able to do a thing about it.
Hate backstop? Tough. Want to negotiate a customs union? Forget it. We’ll be sucked into what May has wanted from the start, and what Parliament has always sought to avoid: the take-or-leave-it of May’s negotiated national humiliation or the unique catastrophe of no deal at all.
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Jonathan Lis
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This is a fucking outrage.
No matter what Parliament says, no matter what May pretends, it always, always comes down to this: lying to MPs’ faces, using con trick after con trick to trap them into accepting the generational humiliation of May’s deal or the unprecedented catastrophe of no deal at all.
Whatever MPs protest, the government does not care. They will have their way, even if it takes the most unprecedented cynicism, dishonesty and bad faith to deliver it. It is the worst government in our modern history and it’s only getting started.
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Sam Lowe
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Being in a customs union with the EU does not mean that the EU negotiates trade deals on the UK's behalf. The UK would still need to negotiate its own trade deals.
The EU does not negotiate trade deals on behalf of Turkey, for example.
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