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Originally Posted by Damien
The vote says they don't want us to Leave with no deal. They didn't say the deal had to last forever. Leaving the EU with a two year transition period is a deal, albeit temporary. Not only does it meet the requirements of not leaving without a deal it's explicitly stated as an option in tomorrow's motion.
Basically: The Withdrawal Agreement will allow us to leave the EU.
Anyway. Lots of interesting stuff about how the Government found itself in this position tonight: https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/0...its-own-motion
Also speculation from Labour MPs that the Government didn't know co-signers of a amendement can still push it a vote hence they were caught by surprise. They spent the day getting Spelman to drop it only for Cooper to push it a vote. It makes sense since it's clear Tory MPs were confused as to if it was still a free vote and a Tory backbencher blew up at the speaker saying the motion had been dropped.... |
We can leave the EU without a withdrawal agreement. As I've pointed out, we have to leave the EU in order for any withdrawal agreement to start. We then have to agree to whatever the EU tells us to. A no-deal scenario was the ultimate bargaining chip which has been totally thrown away. A bit like a trade union going into negotiations, setting out from the outset that no matter what they are not going to take any sort of industrial action.