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Programme motion defeated by 308 votes to 322. So Boris Johnson has a Bill that's still "live" but he can't ram it through to his desired timetable. Will he now pull it completely and bow to the inevitability of an extension? Watch this space! #WithdrawalAgreementBill #WAB
Watch for Boris Johnson attempt to call for an election again. Will be interesting to see if he's denied it. Of course, it's all fantastic tabloid headline fodder.
Jeremy Corbyn offers to work with the PM to put together an acceptable timetable. Likely to go down like a bucket of cold sick.
"National interest" klaxon from Boris Johnson. Drink!
Boris Johnson: "The Government must take the only responsible course and accelerate our preparations for no deal."
Boris Johnson: "One way or the other, we will leave the EU with this deal, to which the House has just given its assent."

No acknowledgement that the Bill is very, very far from being passed.
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In retrospect, the biggest mistake of Brexit was that Parliament should have amended the vote to trigger Article 50 so that the default became "revoke" if no deal was struck within the timeframe allowed. That would have *forced* MPs to sit down and genuinely compromise.
It would also have saved over £6 billion that has been poured onto the bonfire of no deal Brexit. And it might have kept some of the companies who've left the UK from leaving, because they would have known the super-damaging cliff edge of no deal was impossible.
I believe it would also have made negotiating with the EU easier because we would have appeared rational. At the moment, they're facing a delusional country quite incapable of logic. Our ridiculous attitude may keep them guessing but it's not condusive to international diplomacy.
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There is grave danger in granting an election during a brief 3-month extension. Quite apart from the fact that too much hinges on the Brexit Party (will they fight or cooperate?) the timing's all wrong.
The days are dark, short and cold. And university students get at least 3 weeks - and some even a month - off for Christmas (yes, I know...) so that completely changes the balance in many seats. Imagine Canterbury for instance without the student vote because they're all at home.
And then there's the danger of stumbling into a no deal Brexit.
1) Boris Johnson might be able to fiddle with the date of the election & use the automatic dissolution of Parliament to make sure it wasn't sitting in the runup to and over the new Brexit deadline (e.g. 31 Jan 2020)
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How hot will tempers flare at #PMQs ? It will be interesting to see if Boris Johnson is conciliatory or combative. His hair seems to be its usual blond, so it looks like he didn't "dye in a ditch" over extending Brexit.
Rupa Huq: "The PM has, we all know, a long list of shortcomings. So could he do something about one he does have control over, and get rid of Dominic Cummings". Half-decent pun. #PMQs
Patrick McLoughlin congratulates the PM for "getting a Brexit deal through this House" but of course it's only moved past second reading. A long road still to go, and it may get voted down or amended beyond recognition before it *actually* becomes law. #PMQs
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Toby Young
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Feels as if the balance of power is beginning to shift away from the Remain Alliance and towards Boris. For the First time, he has a choice between two *good* options: either push through the WAB with a short delay, or pull it and push for a general election. If he gets the WAB
through, he can probably then fight a General Election in March of next year, hoping for a Brexit boost — “Having secured a good Brexit deal, I’m the right man to negotiate our future economic partnership with the EU.” If he pulls it, he can probably then fight a General Election
on a platform of: “Give me the majority I need to get Brexit done.” Yes, he’ll bleed some votes to the Brexit Party, but fewer than he would if he was fighting an election without having got what is a pretty good deal from the point of view of Brexiteers. And the Remainers will
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Mujtaba Rahman
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Boris tells Commons he will not allow months of delay to Brexit. If parliament & EU delays until January or longer “the Bill will have to be pulled & we will have to go for a general election 1/3
Vote getting tight. Govt throwing kitchen sink at it ie threatening to pull Bill (stick) & trading with rebels on transition (carrot). My call is still narrow defeat but a lot of MPs not saying/undecided. Lots of behind scenes negotiations. So will go up to the wire 2/3
Also important to note: @BorisJohnson did not rule out short technical extension if programme motion defeated tonight ENDS
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Ian Dunt
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Right we'll be off in a bit. Parliamentary debate on second reading of the government's legislation implementing the Brexit bill kicks off shortly parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8b…
It's going to be an awful day. Several hours of debate. Then a vote on second reading. Then, assuming that passes, a vote on the programme motion. Then three hours of committee.
The second reading vote does not seem that important. Many MPs who will vote for amendments, and who might even ultimately vote against the bill, will vote for it at second reading in order to get it onto the amendment stage.
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Staedtler
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This becomes the most important day of all Brexit. The climax and the crux, when Brexit itself hangs in the balance.
the government loses its programme motion, it won't be able to pass the Withdrawal Bill soon enough to avoid an extension, and once that's in place we get the general election we so richly deserve, with Brexit unresolved.
But if the programme motion passes, there is probably a majority for the whole Bill as well. Then the extension will no longer apply, we will leave in nine days days, and then the general election will come with Brexit resolved.
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Ed Davey 🔶
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Let’s talk about Boris

One of most disreputable, toxic, selfish politicians I’ve ever met. As Tories choose between British Trump & ex-Health Sec who’s mission was to destroy health service, let's remember why #Johnson is #UnfitForOffice
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2018: Letterboxes
Wrote that women wearing niqab looked like “letterboxes” & “bank robbers”; triggering attacks on our Muslim community, “letterbox” graffitied on homes, and giving racists new language in hate speech

#Johnson is #UnfitForOffice
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2008: “Blacks have lower IQs”
As editor of the Spectator he was responsible for - and clearly condoned - this racist drawl. He and his racist worldview has no place in Parliament, let alone @10DowningStreet

#Johnson is #UnfitForOffice
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⚢⚧🌸Sakura No Seirei🌸
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#Brexit news for today:

Nigel Adams, Minister for Wales, and Governement whip has resigned the #Cabinet over #TheresaMay's way forward.

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You can hear #TheresaMay's reaction from here

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So the splitting of the #ToryParty continues. Where will it end? And can we expect resignations from #Labour if #Corbyn is seen as giving up too much to #TheresaMay during the discussions tonight.

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