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    Votes: 688 67.9%
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    Votes: 325 32.1%

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That Brady amendment means the PM will be able to tweak the backstop whilst keeping it the same thing and now have a mandate to press ahead with the deal.

A disaster.
 
That Brady amendment means the PM will be able to tweak the backstop whilst keeping it the same thing and now have a mandate to press ahead with the deal.

A disaster.
how do you see this playing out??

no deal

or

a deal which basically has us leaving but staying in if you know what I mean !
 
how do you see this playing out??

no deal

or

a deal which basically has us leaving but staying in if you know what I mean !

The latter, or a second referendum as we get closer to March with the EU therefore agreeing to extend Article 50.

General Election solves nothing. No deal definitely won't happen.

Now 80%-ish chance of it being the May agreement with a late fudge on the backstop. So Brexit Lite.
 
The latter, or a second referendum as we get closer to March with the EU therefore agreeing to extend Article 50.

General Election solves nothing. No deal definitely won't happen.

Now 80%-ish chance of it being the May agreement with a late fudge on the backstop. So Brexit Lite.
I can still see a no deal happening
 
I am not sure people are taking No Deal seriously enough.

The idea that this parliament, after tonight, could ever agree on the terms of a Second Referendum does not bear thinking about.

The EU, within about 30 seconds of Brady, reaffirmed that they will not renegotiate the backstop.

So where are the 230 (?!?!?) votes needed to pass the I Can't Believe It's Not The May Deal going to come from, exactly?
 
I can still see a no deal happening

There's no way. Even a General Election is more likely than that.

If in late Feb May indicates that's what is happening, Corbyn would field a no confidence motion and it'd pass with help from Remainer Tories and even the DUP. A50 would then be delayed.

'No Deal' has been a non-starter since the beginning of all this. It'd an idle threat.
 
That Brady amendment means the PM will be able to tweak the backstop whilst keeping it the same thing and now have a mandate to press ahead with the deal.

A disaster.

Yeah - but the ERG have already said that if the backstop doesn’t change then they won’t be voting for the deal (on the 14th I think)...

All depends on if May can get changes to the withdrawal agreement, which seems very unlikely at this point.

At that point we are back to stalemate, at which point I think Norway becomes most likely. Labour can get on board with this and most tories would be happy enough with it as well.

Think it would be a fair result of a 52/48 referendum to be honest. No one entirely happy- but we remove ourselves from the political whilst maintaining the economic.
 
Yeah - but the ERG have already said that if the backstop doesn’t change then they won’t be voting for the deal (on the 14th I think)...

All depends on if May can get changes to the withdrawal agreement, which seems very unlikely at this point.

At that point we are back to stalemate, at which point I think Norway becomes most likely. Labour can get on board with this and most tories would be happy enough with it as well.

Think it would be a fair result of a 52/48 referendum to be honest. No one entirely happy- but we remove ourselves from the political whilst maintaining the economic.

Wouldn't solve a thing mate - freedom of movement maintained, you'd have exactly the same Brexit movement continue perpetually, giving legitimacy to a rise of the far right at the same time. I'd personally settle for it, even though it's stupid and you may as well stay in the EU, but yeah, it won't wash with the Brexit loons.

Needs a decisive finish IMO. Brexit needs to either be affirmed or destroyed by another vote, or a deal needs to somehow get through parliament now.
 
Oh don't take my word for it. Here's the President of the European Commission today:

'European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told Theresa May there would be no reopening of the Irish backstop or the Withdrawal Agreement, a senior EU source has told RTÉ News. The source said that Mr Juncker conveyed to the British Prime Minister in a phone call at midday Brussels time that it would be fruitless for her to come to Brussels on the basis of an attempt to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement.'

All this messing about with amendments in the HOC is a complete waste of time. It's time to get real.

You haven’t a clue do you. It will be changed. The language will accommodate all parties, but it will be changed......
 
Wouldn't solve a thing mate - freedom of movement maintained, you'd have exactly the same Brexit movement continue perpetually, giving legitimacy to a rise of the far right at the same time. I'd personally settle for it, even though it's stupid and you may as well stay in the EU, but yeah, it won't wash with the Brexit loons.

Needs a decisive finish IMO. Brexit needs to either be affirmed or destroyed by another vote, or a deal needs to somehow get through parliament now.

I agree. Not what I want at all (but at this stage I’d be made up with it).

Just what I think most likely now.

Fundamentally there is not enough of the Brexit headbangers in parliament to get what they really want through and the rest are just terrified of going ‘against the will of the people’. The closer it gets to either no deal or a second ref the more likely a compromise has to be reached.

Honestly think they just as scared of proposing a second referendum as they are of the prospect of delivering no deal.
 
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