Time to choose: UK Parliament set for crucial vote on May's Brexit deal
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Emily Maitlis interviewed Jake Moggers on Newsnight and kicked the shit out of him for comparing the deal to slavery and then deciding to vote for it lol
Emily Maitlis tears into Jacob Rees
Ms Maitlis told him: “I’m just going to repeat this because it matters Jacob, you evoked slavery. Of course, people are allowed to change their mind and we want our parliamentarians to be able to compromise.
“But you didn’t say ‘well, I’m not quite sure’ you said ‘it would turn the UK in slave state’ and then you consider voting for it.”
Mr Rees Mogg replied: “For 21 months, our laws under this deal will be made without us having any say over it. That is true and that is terrible.”
But Ms Maitlis persisted with her point: “You whipped up hatred and fear with a language like that. You know what it’s like to face abuse.”
“No, no, frankly, I didn’t,” The MP replied saying. “That’s simply not true. If anyone’s whipping up hatred, it’s the BBC who compared the ERG just last week to the National Front in France, if we’re getting silly language, it’s from the BBC.”
She later told him: “By using language like that you make a mockery of language you make a mockery of truth.”
We need more interviewers like Maitlis.
Her coverage of Grenfell, particularly her interview of Theresa May, was almost Paxman-level anti-bullshit.
She's not fucking going for a fourth vote is she? You can't just keep repeating shit until you get what you want, isn't that like the no.1 shitty answer to being against a second referendu,?
This will be the 4th time we have voted against the deal and we have become exceedingly good at it.
If the trend of +40 MPs per vote continues then it would pass; the problem is that she's running out of Tory MPs to convince and now needs either DUP or Labour MPs to vote for it.
And the DUP seem to be drifting towards Remain if anything
Indicative vote 2 on Monday could be important if anything is able to get a majority
In any other situation she'd have been ousted as PM by now, but since the rest of Parliament is chicken shit scared of being the next PM on the chopping block they won't remove her.
She is actually taking the piss right now
May: "We cant hold a second referendum to see if people have changed their mind, we must respect the will of the people!"
Also May: "have you changed your minds on my deal yet? here let me put it to vote a fourth time"
Apparently Tory MPs might not let May call a snap election lmao
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/30/furious-tory-mps-tell-theresa-may-they-will-block-snap-election
If they resign it'll be easier to stop Brexit so i say go for it.
I don't even know what would happen if she called a snap election, doesn't take a genius to know that the Tories won't get a better standing out of it, only a worse one.
I don't even think the DUP will join back into the coalition either.
I'm sure another billion would win them over.
The DUP are shits but they're Irish shits and May's deal will either fuck the entire Irish population and restart The Troubles or Brexit will be a pathetic joke because it'll be EU-membership Lite with none of the benefits which was precisely the opposite of what most of Leave believed would happen. But they'd still take it anyway, and at this point, I can't blame them.
When the Coalition of Chaos was formed by May unironically bribing the DUP with a billion quid, I was angry at both the Tories and the DUP, as were many on here. But seeing what May did after negotiating that shaky coalition after her hilariously backfiring snap election, and just how thoroughly the Tories and May in particular have fucked the A50 negotiation process, I'd take money from incompetent dumbasses who won't be around for long too. May's taking the piss and seemingly nothing is convincing her to stop, might as well let her give you a shitpile of money while she's at it.
has there been a bigger political shitshow in the past 20 years than this whole brexit shit?
Almost 10% of the population of the UK has now signed the Revoke A50 petition
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/31/article-50-petition-to-cancel-brexit-passes-6m-signatures
Can we just take all of parliament, every single MP, and just shove 'em into a waiting room play-area or something? Because this is fucking ridiculous.
It boggles my mind how in the face of such an overwhelming movement (it is, by far, the most signed petition ever submitted to the UK Government), the imbeciles in Westminster continue to insist that going through with Brexit is the "will of the people".
To be fair, there's no real way to prove that the people signing the petition didn't initially vote to remain. If it could be proved that the people who voted on the petition had changed their minds and stance from leave to remain, then there'd be even more of a precedent to not discount the vote.
that's the beauty of claiming a mandate, you don't ever actually have to prove anything and it sounds better than just saying you have the power so you're going to use it
Who voted what way in the referendum shouldn't matter.
Also remember that the petition is to be debated in parliament tomorrow, the same day as the indictive votes.
So for once a petition might actually have a decent debate.
I absolutely agree, but if I were in the position of wanting to carry out brexit for some stupid reason or another, that'd be the justification I'd go with.
It boggles my mind that they went ahead with a non legally binding referendum, of a decision that affects the entire country, when the difference between the two sides in votes was less then FOUR PERCENT.
but 70% voted in the referendum!
It's worth noting that by 'Parliament' it does not necessarilly mean within the chamber of the House of Commons. It'll probably be passed off to a small group of people in a small debate room like when they have select committees.
or probably mentioned then moved on from. like the dacia sandaro!
The petition was brought up in parliament days after it first started and it was hand waved away with "lmao not as many votes as in the referendum, will o da people gottem"
Indicative Vote 2 today at 8pm, MPs will vote on 8 options, some of which are returning from IV1 and some of which are new (and won't pass lol)
Most attention is being paid to the customs union and the confirmatory referendum motions, which got the most votes last time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47767627
At least one Tory MP has reluctantly moved to back a second referendum since the last vote
https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1112686138563706880?s=09
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