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Get ready for Friday the 13th: Nightmare on Downing St
Remember, FTPA motion vote would NOT determine the date.

Johnson to Corbyn:

“If you don’t vote through the Brexit deal you don’t want, I won’t give you the election you don’t want, either.” independent.co.uk/voices/general…
“But one things for certain, Cummings and co stand ready to open the sluice gates of lies and hate. Brexit has already ruined millions of Christmas lunches up and down the country, in its three and a half year reign of misery.”
“On this trajectory, Christmas 2019 will be whole orders of magnitude worse. Turkeys, as the the old saying goes, tend not to vote for Christmas. But at least they don’t have to live through it.”

@tompeck captures the daily agony very well.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
@fascinatorfun
Extraordinary. Who would have thought that Johnson would lie to Labour MPs? @CarolineFlintMP

You know. The Johnson that was going to drink champers with Crispin Odey when they’d pulled the wool over Labour over election dates and Prorogation #ToriesAtWar #C4

@JolyonMaugham
Goodness me. Yes. They ARE planning to diverge from the EU on workers rights.
And environmental protections too.

At least @JennyChapman sees it.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
@fascinatorfun
Adam Tucker: WAB Henry VIII powers

“The scrutiny procedures it seeks to enact are inadequate – so inadequate that it would be a constitutional mistake for Parliament to approve this aspect of the WAB without significant amendment”

⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ ukconstitutionallaw.org/2019/10/24/ada…
On the NI Protocol

This is quite alarming (Yes. You need to read the article)
But MPs @thomasbrake @Keir_Starmer @SamGyimah @Anna_Soubry @joannaccherry will need ample time to review this and work out how to secure far better scrutiny and ensure ALL MPs see it

@patricklohlein
3/. On Citizens Rights, equally as alarming @nickynoo007
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
@fascinatorfun
He then pointed at a picture of Johnson and said

“floccinaucinihilipilification personified”

Lo! Church bells rang and the streets filled with the people applauding and calling “Yeah! Lord!”
They keep getting better

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Peter Foster
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So @BorisJohnson heads to meet @JunckerEU filled with optimism about prospects for an 11th-hour deal.

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EU has almost given up trying to understand what’s going on in UK.
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@Rowland72James
Having calmed down slightly I now realise John McDonnells position of a Deal/no deal #Brexit ref if they can't force a GE is unrealistic independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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