Posted on 01/16/2019 9:13:00 AM PST by NRx
Live broadcast of the debate on a motion of no confidence in the House of Commons. The Labour party tabled a motion of no confidence following yesterday's crushing defeat of the Government's Brexit deal with the EU.
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Party discipline is much stronger in the UK Parliament than it is in our Congress. The parties have a lot more tools to keep their members in line, and defections are rare, particularly in no confidence votes like this one. There hasn’t been a successful no-confidence vote since 1979, and the major parties voted entirely along party lines.
They will vote for her. Its rare for your own party to oppose you on a critical vote, its just that Conservative MPs did not like the Brexit plan on offer.
And they’re not looking forward to new elections.
Interesting that comments and chat are disabled for this at Youtube.
I’ve been in Canada a couple of decades so I am more aware than your average Yank.
Still things are razor thin so it wouldn’t take much.
The government will have to go back to talks with the EU and try to tweak the deal and get cross-party support for it.
And if it decides a hard Brexit ultimately isn’t in the UK’s interest, it can trigger Art. 49 and cancel Brexit. It would have to do so before or by March 29 to stay in without further EU action.
The best deals are usually when both sides feel a little PO’d at what they got...
She and Merkel are the same person, same handlers...who didn’t see this a mile away?
Or there’s buyers remorse. The drafters of the Lisbon Treaty foresaw that too in Art. 49, that a member state might get cold feet about leaving.
You can change your mind and stay in before the exit date, with notification given under Art. 49 that a withdrawal from the EU was being abrogated.
Its not like the UK has to go through with Brexit if it doesn’t want to.
The vote of no confidence sounded close but in favor of no confidence. The count is being tallied now.
May is horrible, but it sounds like the Labour Party Leader is another Obama.
close vote
May survives 325 to 306 per Fox Business.
The noes have it.
Looks like May will begin meetings tonight to hammer out a deal.
The government is going to go for last ditch talks with the EU to hammer out an improved agreement.
If it can’t get one, there are two choices: a no deal hard Brexit or rescission of EU withdrawal under Art. 49.
Its not over yet.
It seems most MP’s will go along with a Brexit deal. It’s up to May to finally get the deal done.
Ugh. Call me a defeatist but the UK is done anyways. I say this as a Canadian who is also very pessimistic about his own country. But the UK is much closer to complete Sharia law. Doesn’t matter who is in charge. Liberal Party, Labour or the so called Conservative party. Muslims continue to “groom” poor English girls, free speech is still restricted when it comes to Islam, and the importation of Pakistanis, ect, continues.
Just finish the withdrawal, declare previously negotiated EU-based agreements null, and be prepared to use the Navy to enforce it.
That is correct. This was one of the primary reasons for the BREXIT movement.
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Wouldn't a hard Brexit simply cancel all of the EU agreements? How could they be enforced anyway if the UK is no longer part of the EU?
Come to Alberta then, the last bastion of freedoms in Canada.
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