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To my mind the most significant thing to come out of the catastrophic defeat for the government on its Brexit deal was the statement by Theresa May that she’ll look to consulting with other parties.
It won't end his leadership. The rest is true, but having reluctantly done what the party wants he'll be fine.
What if he doesn't?
I don't believe he will hold firm. The party is begging him to do it, and given the Tories' situation he could be PM in a few months. He's not throwing that away, not now. He's not the same person who sat on the backbenches for 30 years. He's had years to get close to power.
To be honest you have been consistent in your view that Corbyn will move on a referendum but there is no evidence he or his inner circle will and indeed many of his mps in leave seats are vocally opposed to it
And May has been consistent that it is her way or nothing, but she's going to come up with a plan B now isn't she?
I was not talking about TM to be fair
The same point applies. Corbyn will be absolutely for his way and only his way..until he changes his way.
What happened tonight is that - assuming Brexit is a crashing plane - a decision has been made to jettison the parachutes to see if that makes a difference.
First an unprecedented election campaign now an unprecedented commons defeat. May is simply not up to it. Politically deaf. Whatever happens next sufferers the same underlying weakness.
The ERG lost because we now either Remain or leave disastrously.
The Remainer lobby lost because they still have only a slim chance of remaining but have ruled out all other good options.
Theresa May lost - that doesn't need explaining.
Democracy lost - our system is demonstrably broken, producing people who are unfit to govern us and who will deliberately ignore the loudly expressed will of the electorate when it suits them.
And we all lost, for all of the above reasons.
My head is actually aching with sadness and frustration.
What happened tonight is that - assuming Brexit is a crashing plane - a decision has been made to jettison the parachutes to see if that makes a difference.
The ERG lost because we now either Remain or leave disastrously.
The Remainer lobby lost because they still have only a slim chance of remaining but have ruled out all other good options.
Theresa May lost - that doesn't need explaining.
Democracy lost - our system is demonstrably broken, producing people who are unfit to govern us and who will deliberately ignore the loudly expressed will of the electorate when it suits them.
And we all lost, for all of the above reasons.
My head is actually aching with sadness and frustration.
Good night.
I'm with you on that one. It's too aggravating and pointless to even focus on anymore.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
That would be the end of the Tory party. The Tory PM will never, ever take that route.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
I don’t see how cross party talks are going to break the deadlock. It isn’t like coalition talks where two parties weren’t that far apart on lots of issues. Lib Dem’s are just straight NO and labour are must pass 5 impossible tests.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
That would be the end of the Tory party. The Tory PM will never, ever take that route.
Listen to Cox's speech, and watch May throughout. She isn't going to be the PM that thrusts us into leaving without a deal.
Been stuck on a Tube where two People's Vote demonstrators were expounding their economic theories. Apparently trade is less important to small countries ...
Not quite sure how the teeny countries he was naming were remotely expected to be self sufficient in resources let alone make all their own specialist goods. He should take a gander at https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS
One of his examples was Slovakia!!! (Trade is 189% of their GDP if you check that link. Exports alone are 96. 3%....)
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
One thing that is not commented on much but the DUP would be content to remain in the EU if they cannot get a no deal
Have they actually said that?
My assumption has always been that the DUP (like a lot of Brexit voters) secretly do regret their vote, but pride will stop them ever saying "I was wrong" out loud.
One thing that is not commented on much but the DUP would be content to remain in the EU if they cannot get a no deal
Have they actually said that?
My assumption has always been that the DUP (like a lot of Brexit voters) secretly do regret their vote, but pride will stop them ever saying "I was wrong" out loud.
They're the types to complain even when they get what they want, so who could tell the difference?
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
That would be the end of the Tory party. The Tory PM will never, ever take that route.
Listen to Cox's speech, and watch May throughout. She isn't going to be the PM that thrusts us into leaving without a deal.
Whatever, the PM would nod along to a Boris speech if he were still in the Cabinet. The Tory PM will never conspire to kill brexit. It would be the end of the party.
I don’t see how cross party talks are going to break the deadlock. It isn’t like coalition talks where two parties weren’t that far apart on lots of issues. Lib Dem’s are just straight NO
You might almost think that they've had recent experience of how well compromising with the Conservatives works out.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
Sadly its loyalists like us. Time to embrace No Deal and get this over with G.
I can never embrace no deal. It horrifies me
Short term pain for long term gain.
It'll destroy the eurosceptic movement forever.
All those quotes by them that No Deal was Project Fear/That WTO will be awesome will haunt them, worse than Brown's 'We abolished boom and bust'.
If we get no deal and very little of significance to Joe Public actually changes (as is pretty obviously going to be the case), some people (the same people who told us that the country would be a smoking ruin in 24hrs after the vote, and talked of punishment budgets etc.) are going to find themselves wearing an awful lot of egg on their faces!
"To my mind the most significant thing to come out of the catastrophic defeat for the government on its Brexit deal was the statement by Theresa May that she’ll look to consulting with other parties.
"I just wonder if that is paving the way for a second referendum. Clearly the other main parties, LAB after its likely confidence vote failure tomorrow, the SNP, the LDS, PC and the Green are all committed to a second vote."
Depends what this consultation amounts to. If it's this:
"What lovely ideas, let's ask Mr Barnier about them. Oh dear, Mr Barnier says 'Non.' Now, are you sure my Withdrawal Agreement is that bad?"
then still nothing has changed. If, on the other hand, it's this:
"You know, I've seen the light and suddenly that second referendum I've been writing off as a terrible idea for years sounds like the best thing ever!"
then obviously something very important has changed. We can then look forward to another national festival of bloodletting.
A Deal vs Remain referendum would obviously provide the opportunity for May to rescue her WA by taking it to the country, but she has previously insisted over and over and over again that putting us through yet another referendum would be a terrible idea, and it would also result in the Tory Parliamentary party scratching each others' eyes out in public in a three-cornered campaign of unparalleled viciousness (Remainers, May Loyalists, and Hard Brexiteers, with many members of the latter group possibly having started a campaign to boycott the vote or having flounced out of the party altogether to start a rival outfit.)
Moreover, if it gets even as far as a referendum bill going before Parliament then are we sure that the DUP won't try to kill the whole process at birth, in their ongoing attempts to prevent the Deal from being implemented? That way lies a likely General Election, in which the Conservatives would then have a similar set of problems to the above, plus the hopeless task of trying to sound as if they all really believe in a manifesto the central pledge of which is to implement the Prime Minister's Deal.
I don't think she'll go to the country, whether in a referendum or a GE, unless there are absolutely no other options left.
She has Nothing Has Changed herself to the single greatest self-inflicted Parliamentary disaster in British constitutional history.
I have a sneaking admiration for somebody so utterly impervious to shame, and so totally inured to their profound incompetence, as to keep buggering on until the shit hits the fan in a truly epochal manner.
Step forward and take a bow, Theresa May. Your name is guaranteed to ring through the annals of splendid incompetence evermore.
One thing that is not commented on much but the DUP would be content to remain in the EU if they cannot get a no deal
The DUP aren’t interested in Brexit per say. They are interested in any political development that creates divergence between NI and Eire, with the former cleaving more closely to GB.
Sadly its loyalists like us. Time to embrace No Deal and get this over with G.
I can never embrace no deal. It horrifies me
Short term pain for long term gain.
It'll destroy the eurosceptic movement forever.
All those quotes by them that No Deal was Project Fear/That WTO will be awesome will haunt them, worse than Brown's 'We abolished boom and bust'.
If we get no deal and very little of significance to Joe Public actually changes (as is pretty obviously going to be the case), some people (the same people who told us that the country would be a smoking ruin in 24hrs after the vote, and talked of punishment budgets etc.) are going to find themselves wearing an awful lot of egg on their faces!
"To my mind the most significant thing to come out of the catastrophic defeat for the government on its Brexit deal was the statement by Theresa May that she’ll look to consulting with other parties.
"I just wonder if that is paving the way for a second referendum. Clearly the other main parties, LAB after its likely confidence vote failure tomorrow, the SNP, the LDS, PC and the Green are all committed to a second vote."
Depends what this consultation amounts to. If it's this:
"What lovely ideas, let's ask Mr Barnier about them. Oh dear, Mr Barnier says 'Non.' Now, are you sure my Withdrawal Agreement is that bad?"
then still nothing has changed. If, on the other hand, it's this:
"You know, I've seen the light and suddenly that second referendum I've been writing off as a terrible idea for years sounds like the best thing ever!"
then obviously something very important has changed. We can then look forward to another national festival of bloodletting.
A Deal vs Remain referendum would obviously provide the opportunity for May to rescue her WA by taking it to the country, but she has previously insisted over and over and over again that putting us through yet another referendum would be a terrible idea, and it would also result in the Tory Parliamentary party scratching each others' eyes out in public in a three-cornered campaign of unparalleled viciousness (Remainers, May Loyalists, and Hard Brexiteers, with many members of the latter group possibly having started a campaign to boycott the vote or having flounced out of the party altogether to start a rival outfit.)
Moreover, if it gets even as far as a referendum bill going before Parliament then are we sure that the DUP won't try to kill the whole process at birth, in their ongoing attempts to prevent the Deal from being implemented? That way lies a likely General Election, in which the Conservatives would then have a similar set of problems to the above, plus the hopeless task of trying to sound as if they all really believe in a manifesto the central pledge of which is to implement the Prime Minister's Deal.
I don't think she'll go to the country, whether in a referendum or a GE, unless there are absolutely no other options left.
I think that's definitely true, we most certainly can't go to the country and campaign on implementing the PM's deal. It really is quite poor.
My thought on May’s statement is similar to Mike’s. Long way to go, and plenty of entrenched interests ready to stop it happening, but i think she’ll do pretty much anything which (a) is called Brexit (or gives people a chance to have something called it), (b) might get EU approval (despite Juncker’s ‘non’, I think they’ll be open to a softer Brexit/referendum) and (c) allows her to deliver it before disappearing.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
Doesn't the scale of this defeat make it harder to envisage a referendum with this Deal as an option? And I don't see the EU agreeing an extension for a No Deal v Remain referendum.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
Sadly its loyalists like us. Time to embrace No Deal and get this over with G.
I can never embrace no deal. It horrifies me
Anyone on any kind of meds for them/ loved ones/pets should be worried
Matt Hancock MP says he's got it all under control...
It's slightly ironic that the over 60's-those mostly likely to be on meds, those most likely to vote Brexit are looking at something quite horrific come March 29th. My wife works in Pharma- the rules and regulations in transporting drugs are particularly bureaucratic
One thing that is not commented on much but the DUP would be content to remain in the EU if they cannot get a no deal
The DUP aren’t interested in Brexit per say. They are interested in any political development that creates divergence between NI and Eire, with the former cleaving more closely to GB.
Yes and what is missed by commentators is the DUP need Leo to eat a lot of humble pie before they vote for a deal.
Doesn't the scale of this defeat make it harder to envisage a referendum with this Deal as an option? And I don't see the EU agreeing an extension for a No Deal v Remain referendum.
It was always silly for the deal to be rejected by parliament then included in a referendum. The remainers are in a bind. The deal has no credibility, but if they are being honest then they cannot countenance risking no deal by including it, so what do they include?
What they want is to just revoke, possibly under pretence of a delay.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
That would be the end of the Tory party.
On present evidence that would be a loss how?
Corbyn becomes PM.
On present evidence that would be worse how?
Yes. Significantly.
I fail to see how, this government is that incompetent.
Govt Notional maj = 13 so if it goes 100% on party lines the result would be:
Yes 311, No 324.
If Govt gets Lady Hermon, it's Yes 310, No 325.
If Flynn is absent (was he the MP absent today?) then Yes get 309.
Makes the Betfair market interesting - 310-319 is favourite but if Flynn can't make it then that band could well lose. And that assumes all Independent Lab vote Yes.
One thing that is not commented on much but the DUP would be content to remain in the EU if they cannot get a no deal
The DUP aren’t interested in Brexit per say. They are interested in any political development that creates divergence between NI and Eire, with the former cleaving more closely to GB.
Yes and what is missed by commentators is the DUP need Leo to eat a lot of humble pie before they vote for a deal.
Sadly its loyalists like us. Time to embrace No Deal and get this over with G.
I can never embrace no deal. It horrifies me
Short term pain for long term gain.
It'll destroy the eurosceptic movement forever.
All those quotes by them that No Deal was Project Fear/That WTO will be awesome will haunt them, worse than Brown's 'We abolished boom and bust'.
If we get no deal and very little of significance to Joe Public actually changes (as is pretty obviously going to be the case), some people (the same people who told us that the country would be a smoking ruin in 24hrs after the vote, and talked of punishment budgets etc.) are going to find themselves wearing an awful lot of egg on their faces!
Twaddle. Project Fear never materialised simply because we had a nice two-year cushion, and the markets convinced themselves that would be enough time for the politicians to address the many and varied problems. This time there will be no such let-off period.
The ERG lost because we now either Remain or leave disastrously.
The Remainer lobby lost because they still have only a slim chance of remaining but have ruled out all other good options.
Theresa May lost - that doesn't need explaining.
Democracy lost - our system is demonstrably broken, producing people who are unfit to govern us and who will deliberately ignore the loudly expressed will of the electorate when it suits them.
And we all lost, for all of the above reasons.
My head is actually aching with sadness and frustration.
Good night.
You've left out the group who are both the biggest losers and most responsible for this mess entirely.
The EU (particularly the commission) have lost. By their own moronic stupidity of insisting on the backstop, they've actually made the very situation the backstop was intended to prevent the most likely outcome. Without the backstop, this might have been winnable for May - particularly if the EU had made a big show of junking it in a gesture of good will once it became apparent that it would never pass. It might have taken a few go's, but May and the EU might have squeezed out a deal that scraped through Parliament. Now it's difficult to imagine what they could conceded which might resolve matters.
Doesn't the scale of this defeat make it harder to envisage a referendum with this Deal as an option? And I don't see the EU agreeing an extension for a No Deal v Remain referendum.
It was always silly for the deal to be rejected by parliament then included in a referendum. The remainers are in a bind. The deal has no credibility, but if they are being honest then they cannot countenance risking no deal by including it, so what do they include?
What they want is to just revoke, possibly under pretence of a delay.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
That would be the end of the Tory party.
On present evidence that would be a loss how?
Corbyn becomes PM.
On present evidence that would be worse how?
Yes. Significantly.
I fail to see how, this government is that incompetent.
With respect, you are failing to see what is in front of your eyes.
The ERG lost because we now either Remain or leave disastrously.
The Remainer lobby lost because they still have only a slim chance of remaining but have ruled out all other good options.
Theresa May lost - that doesn't need explaining.
Democracy lost - our system is demonstrably broken, producing people who are unfit to govern us and who will deliberately ignore the loudly expressed will of the electorate when it suits them.
And we all lost, for all of the above reasons.
My head is actually aching with sadness and frustration.
Good night.
You've left out the group who are both the biggest losers and most responsible for this mess entirely.
The EU (particularly the commission) have lost. By their own moronic stupidity of insisting on the backstop, they've actually made the very situation the backstop was intended to prevent the most likely outcome. Without the backstop, this might have been winnable for May - particularly if the EU had made a big show of junking it in a gesture of good will once it became apparent that it would never pass. It might have taken a few go's, but May and the EU might have squeezed out a deal that scraped through Parliament. Now it's difficult to imagine what they could conceded which might resolve matters.
To a degree that's true. But they can suffer a no deal better than we can, so the failure is less acute.
And given how unwilling to be flexible they have been it is pretty clear they have banked on making it so bad that we remain after all as their strategy. It may yet work.
My thought on May’s statement is similar to Mike’s. Long way to go, and plenty of entrenched interests ready to stop it happening, but i think she’ll do pretty much anything which (a) is called Brexit (or gives people a chance to have something called it), (b) might get EU approval (despite Juncker’s ‘non’, I think they’ll be open to a softer Brexit/referendum) and (c) allows her to deliver it before disappearing.
I believe that the EU might well consent to renegotiation for an Andrex Soft Brexit, but I don't think May's likely to be up for that. She's devoted virtually her entire term in office to constructing this Withdrawal Agreement, and I'd be very surprised if she didn't keep trying to save it. Besides, anything significantly softer than what she has already secured would see her back to having to concede freedom of movement. I stand to be corrected by events, but if it came to the point where the only choices she had left were to rip up her Deal or attempt to save it by putting it to the people, I think she'd go for a vote (either a referendum or a GE, depending on the circumstances.)
£ is rising. The market knows what May's big loss means.
Yep. Absolutely clear this has increased the chance of remain. Various routes to that end, but my guess is parliament engineers a solution that compels the PM to extend A50 if there is no deal reached, or revoke if the extension is denied. Parliament then obstructs any possible deal, the EU says sod off to an extension, and voila - the desired result, without anyone having to stick their neck out and take the flak.
I'm not sure what the ERG'ers are celebrating - they've managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Doesn't the scale of this defeat make it harder to envisage a referendum with this Deal as an option? And I don't see the EU agreeing an extension for a No Deal v Remain referendum.
It was always silly for the deal to be rejected by parliament then included in a referendum. The remainers are in a bind. The deal has no credibility, but if they are being honest then they cannot countenance risking no deal by including it, so what do they include?
What they want is to just revoke, possibly under pretence of a delay.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
Nah. It's quite possible things will look worse and worse until, at the last minute, unity breaks out with the Revocation Bill that is already drafted pushed through the house in the last day or two, leaving the Tories' headbangers isolated.
That would be the end of the Tory party.
On present evidence that would be a loss how?
Corbyn becomes PM.
On present evidence that would be worse how?
Yes. Significantly.
I fail to see how, this government is that incompetent.
With respect, you are failing to see what is in front of your eyes.
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And the Tories are too busy smiling through clenched teeth that they are still a functioning party to say anything.
What happened tonight is that - assuming Brexit is a crashing plane - a decision has been made to jettison the parachutes to see if that makes a difference.
Like we saw, inter alia, at
1) Early hours of June 24th 2016
2) Early hours of 9th of November 2016
The ERG lost because we now either Remain or leave disastrously.
The Remainer lobby lost because they still have only a slim chance of remaining but have ruled out all other good options.
Theresa May lost - that doesn't need explaining.
Democracy lost - our system is demonstrably broken, producing people who are unfit to govern us and who will deliberately ignore the loudly expressed will of the electorate when it suits them.
And we all lost, for all of the above reasons.
My head is actually aching with sadness and frustration.
Good night.
Lots of cross parties. Becoming incandescent as we No Deal Brexit on 29th March.....
It'll destroy the eurosceptic movement forever.
All those quotes by them that No Deal was Project Fear/That WTO will be awesome will haunt them, worse than Brown's 'We abolished boom and bust'.
https://twitter.com/yourmeps/status/1085224219896676354?s=21
Not quite sure how the teeny countries he was naming were remotely expected to be self sufficient in resources let alone make all their own specialist goods. He should take a gander at https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS
One of his examples was Slovakia!!! (Trade is 189% of their GDP if you check that link. Exports alone are 96. 3%....)
I don't think extending is easy or straightforward.
My assumption has always been that the DUP (like a lot of Brexit voters) secretly do regret their vote, but pride will stop them ever saying "I was wrong" out loud.
I think they just enjoy pissing.
"I just wonder if that is paving the way for a second referendum. Clearly the other main parties, LAB after its likely confidence vote failure tomorrow, the SNP, the LDS, PC and the Green are all committed to a second vote."
Depends what this consultation amounts to. If it's this:
"What lovely ideas, let's ask Mr Barnier about them. Oh dear, Mr Barnier says 'Non.' Now, are you sure my Withdrawal Agreement is that bad?"
then still nothing has changed. If, on the other hand, it's this:
"You know, I've seen the light and suddenly that second referendum I've been writing off as a terrible idea for years sounds like the best thing ever!"
then obviously something very important has changed. We can then look forward to another national festival of bloodletting.
A Deal vs Remain referendum would obviously provide the opportunity for May to rescue her WA by taking it to the country, but she has previously insisted over and over and over again that putting us through yet another referendum would be a terrible idea, and it would also result in the Tory Parliamentary party scratching each others' eyes out in public in a three-cornered campaign of unparalleled viciousness (Remainers, May Loyalists, and Hard Brexiteers, with many members of the latter group possibly having started a campaign to boycott the vote or having flounced out of the party altogether to start a rival outfit.)
Moreover, if it gets even as far as a referendum bill going before Parliament then are we sure that the DUP won't try to kill the whole process at birth, in their ongoing attempts to prevent the Deal from being implemented? That way lies a likely General Election, in which the Conservatives would then have a similar set of problems to the above, plus the hopeless task of trying to sound as if they all really believe in a manifesto the central pledge of which is to implement the Prime Minister's Deal.
I don't think she'll go to the country, whether in a referendum or a GE, unless there are absolutely no other options left.
I have a sneaking admiration for somebody so utterly impervious to shame, and so totally inured to their profound incompetence, as to keep buggering on until the shit hits the fan in a truly epochal manner.
Step forward and take a bow, Theresa May. Your name is guaranteed to ring through the annals of splendid incompetence evermore.
The DUP aren’t interested in Brexit per say. They are interested in any political development that creates divergence between NI and Eire, with the former cleaving more closely to GB.
I don’t think it will happen but it’s great value.
English sparkling wine, surely?
https://twitter.com/thhamilton/status/1085278477752905728
(And I think Tom Hamilton underestimates the majority required, assuming the extra Tory backbenchers would split in proportion to the vote against)
Alternatively someone's just fucking around
https://twitter.com/maxgmarshall/status/1085277849416806400
What they want is to just revoke, possibly under pretence of a delay. I fail to see how, this government is that incompetent.
Total possible vote = 635 (634 voted today).
Govt Notional maj = 13 so if it goes 100% on party lines the result would be:
Yes 311, No 324.
If Govt gets Lady Hermon, it's Yes 310, No 325.
If Flynn is absent (was he the MP absent today?) then Yes get 309.
Makes the Betfair market interesting - 310-319 is favourite but if Flynn can't make it then that band could well lose. And that assumes all Independent Lab vote Yes.
And then...
Agreed. But I can’t find the bloody market!
The EU (particularly the commission) have lost. By their own moronic stupidity of insisting on the backstop, they've actually made the very situation the backstop was intended to prevent the most likely outcome.
Without the backstop, this might have been winnable for May - particularly if the EU had made a big show of junking it in a gesture of good will once it became apparent that it would never pass. It might have taken a few go's, but May and the EU might have squeezed out a deal that scraped through Parliament. Now it's difficult to imagine what they could conceded which might resolve matters.
I want better than that.
And given how unwilling to be flexible they have been it is pretty clear they have banked on making it so bad that we remain after all as their strategy. It may yet work.
I'm not sure what the ERG'ers are celebrating - they've managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
It is no wonder they all voted against the deal