Politics Today

[Alistair20000]

Morning Al,

Many thanks for your support and sympathy at this difficult time

I have now managed to cheer myself up with this prediction of how things will unfold:

Johnson will get his Agreement passed and will win an unspectacular majority at the General Election. As a result the Labour Party will finally come to its senses and elect a functioning adult to lead it.

2020 will be dominated by trying to get a trade deal with the EU before the transition period ends. The Europeans will play hard ball and, as with the withdrawal agreement negotiations, they will have a clear negotiating strategy while the UK will be all over the place. (Or is my lack of faith in the mighty Liz Truss misplaced?). There is no way that the EU will give us a deal as remotely good as remaining a member (cake and eat it) so we'll be left cobbling together some shoddy compromise.

This will result in a deal that no-one likes. Especially not the ERG. There will be loud noises off from Farage and the Great British (sic) Public will be mightily peed off that Brexit is still dominating the airwaves after they had been promised that it was all done and dusted and we could go on to talk about other things.

The deal will be voted down and the government will fall. There will be a General Election and the Conservative Party will suffer a devastating defeat. Johnson will finally get his comeuppance and lose his seat

An entirely possible outcome art.

Other outcomes available of course.

 

[arthur]

What tf is going on with the Labour Party? The Shadow Chancellor and Shadow Brexit Secretary addressing the PV march while the leader has an entirely different approach and outlook.

 

[Mr Jinx]

If Johnson wins tomorrow he might lose the GE (1945 and all that). If he loses tomorrow he'll almost certainly win the GE. So maybe Catoline Flint and her pals will actually be doing us a favour

Yes, I can see that happening. If Boris doesn't get his deal through whether it's because of Letwin or not, I can see demons being unleashed. Parliament with all its little tricks isn't winning many friends.

 

[DB9]

MP's back Letwin amendment

 

[IndoMike]

Boris very angry. Says he will not negotiate a delay.

 

[DB9]

Sending MP's home while the Government prepare legislation because of this amendment so no Brexit vote today, Seems unessacary, Why not just get on with the vote to end this bloody nightmare?

 

[Mr Jinx]

Sending MP's home while the Government prepare legislation because of this amendment so no Brexit vote today, Seems unessacary, Why not just get on with the vote to end this bloody nightmare?

...because MPs know better than us plebs.

 

[Anonymous]

...because MPs know better than us plebs.

That is LITERALLY the reason why we have MPs. We elect them to make decisions on our behalf. Having a referendum to decide on political decisions is quite literally a dereliction of their duty and responsibility. It should never have happened in the first place and only did because the Tory government was so incredibly weak.

 

[arthur]

...because MPs know better than us plebs.

You know very well that this delay is to prevent the ERG sabotaging the withdrawal act which would mean we leave without an agreement. Letwin has said he'll vote for the agreement when all the legislative stuff has been dealt with and a delay means there's time to do it properly. Why are you inventing conflict where none exists?

 

[tavyred]

More dither and delay. It’ll probably add another couple of percentage points to BJ’s already burgeoning poll lead.