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Brexit legislation analysis: The fundamental structure of the existing Brexit debate is basically copied-and-pasted into the transition period politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/10/…
An impossible timetable, with severe status-quo consequences in case of failure, no clear idea of what the govt wants to do, and a set of internally incompatible political dynamics.
'Get Brexit Done' might be the most misleading description of this legislation imaginable. It is a mandate for more of the same politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/10/…
That's just what I can gleam by darting around it now. Will keep on reading in the tiny bit of time left until the Commons debate starts. This is an absurd process.
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Ian Dunt
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We're at a moment of peak indecision. No-one has any idea how to proceed, mostly because the numbers in parliament are so tight.
Downing Street doesn't know whether to push ahead with legislation or fight for election. Labour doesn't know either. The Europeans have no idea how it'll proceed.
No-one can be confident in their strategy, because for all sides - Leave, Remain & also within those groups - every path is full of uncertainty.
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Ian Dunt
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If Johnson wants to run on an election campaign insisting that his Brexit deal passed parliament, it will rather complicate his election campaign insisting that parliament is standing in the way of Brexit.
Fuck, maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe words and sentences don't mean anything anymore. But they do seem somewhat contradictory statements.
Although, you know, they're both lies. Maybe that's the mathematics of lying. You put two together and it adds up to not much of anything.
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Ian Dunt
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I dunno. I'd be pretty worried about the deal passing third reading if I was the govt. The numbers yesterday don't look great.
You only need to lose 15 MPs for it to fail. 19 Labour MPs backed second reading, but only five backed the programme motion.
Many of them could switch to opposition. Then it's a question of whether you could chip away at indie Conservatives supporting the deal. Sandbach maybe. Even Hammond.
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