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LeftishBrit

(41,192 posts)
22. It just failed (sigh)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:47 PM
Jun 2018

Some of the potential rebels caved under pressure from May and the whips (and perhaps from fear of a Thomas Mair? some of the Brextremists are scary). There were the six who deserve some credit for holding out: Ken Clarke, Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston, Philip Lee, Antoinette Sandbach. But also the four Labourites who deserve *no* credit for voting with the government: Kate Phooey, the DUP MP for Vauxhall; Frank Field (surprise surprise - NOT); John Mann; and Graham Stringer -whom I've never respected since he went on a crusade a few years ago to insist that there would be no such thing as dyslexia if all schools taught exclusively synthetic phonics!

Oh well. Parliament has failed us as per usual. Now it's up to us. Let's hope for HUGE numbers at the June 23rd march!

The justice minister just resigned Soph0571 Jun 2018 #1
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Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2018 #21
The 3 ..in this picture w/Trump have now confessed to colluding w/ Russia to rig the #Brexit vote riversedge Jun 2018 #2
'Winning an election isn't about facts': Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore face MPs' questions - live Exotica Jun 2018 #5
thanks. for post. riversedge Jun 2018 #12
"If you don't like my structure, ... change the law!" Denzil_DC Jun 2018 #20
Over the cliff TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #4
'including the opposition' Exotica Jun 2018 #6
If you're a huge Corbyn supprter TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #7
The Norway/EEA model is a non-starter as it is more or less leaving us in the EU without having any Exotica Jun 2018 #8
By advocating an option you describe as: TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #9
If you think that an EEA style relationship will fly in the Britain Exotica Jun 2018 #10
It won't TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #11
*Britain would be subject to regulation without representation' Exotica Jun 2018 #13
Lot's of bubble here TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #14
I still think (you will call it bubble thinking) that we can somehow Exotica Jun 2018 #15
Bubble thinking TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #16
There is no conceivable "bespoke" deal on EU trade that doesn't involve freedom of movement. Denzil_DC Jun 2018 #19
I campaigned for Remain T_i_B Jun 2018 #17
Same here LeftishBrit Jun 2018 #18
It just failed (sigh) LeftishBrit Jun 2018 #22
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