Brexit: Speaker selects Brady and Cooper amendments to be voted on by MPs - Politics live

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Source: The Guardian

Theresa May says she will reopen Brexit withdrawal agreement with EU ahead of votes on anti-backstop and Article 50 amendments

Full list of amendments to May’s statement
EU dismisses Tory compromise Brexit plan as unworkable
The ‘Malthouse compromise’: everything you need to know
Labour backs Cooper plan to rule out no-deal Brexit

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jan/29/brexit-vote-commons-latest-news-developments-liam-fox-says-may-now-saying-withdrawal-deal-text-must-be-rewritten-politics-live

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Just as a side note if one where to open this site:

British retirees in EU will lose free healthcare under no-deal Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/29/british-pensioners-in-eu-will-lose-nhs-covered-health-care-under-no-deal-brexit

If what the Tories are trying there damnedest to do is to hurt people, well, they will have completed the Margaret Thatcher plan, and they will hurt people, as the above article indicates , and it just like here in this country with the republicans, these Tories are from the same cloth as the republicans ...............it is absolutely amazing

[ananda]

1. Why people vote Tory is beyond me and yet ..

I think they are brainwashed just like a lot of Reeps here.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. May says she wants a mandate to demand something unspecified in new negotiations

And, third, there must be changes to the backstop, she says.
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For reference, here is the text of the Brady amendment.

At end, add “and requires the Northern Ireland backstop to be replaced with alternative arrangements to avoid a hard border; supports leaving the European Union with a deal and would therefore support the withdrawal agreement subject to this change.”.

She says achieving this change will require a “significant and legally-binding change to the withdrawal agreement”.

This will not be easy, she says. But she says she thinks it can be achieved with “a mandate from this House”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jan/29/brexit-vote-commons-latest-news-developments-liam-fox-says-may-now-saying-withdrawal-deal-text-must-be-rewritten-politics-live?page=with:block-5c50615be4b0a585f6e88b7d#block-5c50615be4b0a585f6e88b7d

So she thinks that a vote for nothing more concrete than 'alternative arrangements' gives her a 'mandate' for "significant and legally-binding change" to what she negotiated a few months earlier and said was the only option other than a 'no deal' Brexit.

She said there was "limited appetite" in the EU for reopening negotiations. The EU has since politely told her where to stick her "legally-binding change":

But as the prime minister called on MPs to send a message to Brussels, EU officials disclosed that a statement was being prepared that would immediately close off the possibility of opening up an agreement that had already been negotiated and agreed over the last 20 months.

“The EU27 and the commission have already prepared a reaction in case the Brady amendment passes this evening saying they will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement,” an official told Bloomberg.

An EU official also confirmed to the Guardian that such a response could be expected.

It is understood that during a phone call with the prime minister on Tuesday afternoon, the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, said the EU would not budge on its refusal to renegotiate.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/29/eu-rule-out-brexit-renegotiation-brady-amendment-pass