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  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,617
    I note that Bulgaria could only get a draw against Kosovo.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    Any Instagrams from the lobbies yet?
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    Drutt said:

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:

    Are England fans talking up the soccer team to avoid talking about how badly the rugby team are going to demolished at the World Cup?

    England were just fifteen bad minutes at Cardiff from winning a Grand Slam (if they'd won that I think they would have gone on to crush Scotland).

    They have an odd fragility as we saw in Cardiff (and in the 2nd half against Scotland) but they are also the team that annihilated Ireland IN Dublin etc etc

    I'd have England as 2nd or 3rd faves to win the World Cup. Not a bad place.
    Currently 5/1-ish, as are ENG for Euros, in from 7/1-ish to 5/1-ish today.
    The world rugby ranking has Ireland in 3rd, just behind Wales, well ahead of England.

    That's nonsense. I think England are clearly better than Ireland, who have peaked.

    The French are the dark horse (as ever). They have astonishing young talent (a bit like England in football). If the coach goes mad and unleashes it, they could win the whole shebang (god forbid).
  • Andy_CookeAndy_Cooke Posts: 5,005

    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:

    This England team actually plays lovely football. And scores a LOT.

    Very seductive

    As good as anyone going forward. Still too vulnerable at the back. But this is an England team able to play precise football at high pace. We haven’t been close to this standard for a very long time. We are properly competitive.

    Yes. I'd give us a sporting chance against any side in the world. Also we aren't totally reliant on one great player - Gascoigne, Rooney etc. This is a proper TEAM. We have stars like Kane but they aren't totally pivotal.

    It’s high quality - and it’s only going to get better. We are or have very recently been world champions at all levels from U16 to U23. The investments the PL clubs have made in youth development are now paying huge dividends.

    Yes, it's not coincidence. It's the same as Britain out-performing in the Olympics. We have finally worked out how to produce good sportsmen and women, and good team spirit.

    There's a science to it, and we have copied the best, and we are prospering thereby. It helps we have lots of money, comparatively.
    2019 might also be the year England win the cricket world cup.
    Yeah, maybe - but I don't really consider it a proper World Cup since the stupid decision to reduce the number of teams and squeeze out the Associates.

    More of an upjumped Champions Trophy, really.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
  • QuincelQuincel Posts: 4,042

    I note that Bulgaria could only get a draw against Kosovo.

    I note that Bulgaria could only get a draw against Kosovo.

    Luxembourg was a last minute own goal away from holding Ukraine to a draw. Instead Ukraine retain their 100% record against them. The team with most matches and a 100% win record against them is Russia (10 matches), but it turns out that England is second most (9 matches).
  • mwjfrome17mwjfrome17 Posts: 158

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:

    Are England fans talking up the soccer team to avoid talking about how badly the rugby team are going to demolished at the World Cup?

    I'm confident that at the end of the world cup England will still be the only Northern Hemisphere nation to have won the world cup.
    I think you are too hard on Wales. They are genuinely good. 14 wins in a row? Beat Ireland (easily) and England?

    They have also beaten S Africa and Oz recently, all they need to do is get over their All Blacks hoodoo (or hope that someone else takes the Kiwis out first) and they could easily win the World Cup.

    If England can't do it, I'll be lustily supporting the Taffs.
    I hate the Welsh rugby fans.

    A bunch of bigoted bellends they are.

    It is all those years of being called a Nigel and told where to stick the sweet chariot has consequences.
    Yes well your country gave us John Redwood as Secretary of State, so piss off, Nigel. xx
    When we let Welsh people run Wales you chose Ron Davies.

    Bring back John Redwood.
    Just because he fancied the occasional unconventional shag, doesn't make him a bad person or a bad politician.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    edited March 2019
    Awkward....He might not be getting quite so many invites onto the cable news networks in the forthcoming months.

    Michael Avenatti charged with trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike

    Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and Los Angeles charged attorney Michael Avenatti nearly simultaneously in two criminal cases Monday, unsealing complaints that alleged he attempted to extort more than $20 million from Nike and that he committed wire and bank fraud.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/25/politics/michael-avenatti/index.html
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,888
    Scott_P said:

    Are England fans talking up the soccer team to avoid talking about how badly the rugby team are going to demolished at the World Cup?

    Football should be played with the feet :lol:
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,888

    I note that Bulgaria could only get a draw against Kosovo.

    Sofia, so good?
  • dotsdots Posts: 615
    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218
    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,888
    Scott_P said:
    That's an angle... who is Richard Harrington? :lol:
  • Here we go...
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,186
    Letwin amendment PASSES

    For 329
    Against 302

    Government loses and Parliament will take control on Wednesday of Commons business and hold indicative votes on all the Brexit options
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,414
    27!
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,186
    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
  • StreeterStreeter Posts: 684
    Hurrah.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,387
    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    I don't know what it achieves, either.
  • NeilVWNeilVW Posts: 732
    So Harrington needn’t have sacrificed his job then.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Letwin wins 329 v 302
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,261
    MPs briefly discovered their spines.
  • Hurrah for the ERG.
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 39,653
    Well ...
  • StereotomyStereotomy Posts: 4,092
    HYUFD said:

    Letwin amendment PASSES

    For 329
    Against 302

    Government loses and Parliament will take control on Wednesday of Commons business and hold indicative votes on all the Brexit options

    Not a surprise
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 1,893
    Now for the process of MPs collectively failing to find an agreement on the best way forward.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,387
    Nigelb said:

    MPs briefly discovered their spines.

    Before they fail to reach any decision on Wednesday.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,414
    This is no longer a government. How do they expect to get anything controversial out with Brexit through?
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,621
    edited March 2019
    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    The government isn't trusted, even by its own MPs. You don't know whether a majority for something will emerge or not.
  • kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    Jeremy Corbyn next UK PM, the UK is screwed
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,261
    Sean_F said:

    Nigelb said:

    MPs briefly discovered their spines.

    Before they fail to reach any decision on Wednesday.
    We’ll see. A better chance that if May were orchestrating the process, at least.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218
    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    The WA part of May's deal is BINO anyway, and that's nowhere near a majority ! Simply because the PM's name is going to be removed from something or other that passes shouldn't be a reason for supporting it or not.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    We'll we've already got a LINO.
  • kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    edited March 2019
    time for a GE , I hope the ERG and DUP VONC the government
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,772

    Hurrah for the ERG.

    Lining up for the Dolchstoßlegende.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Yippee - Euro elections and a huge spike in payments to the EU.

    Happy days.
  • Scott_P said:
    Is there an app called 'Random MP name generator' or am I just getting old and can't recognise these political titans?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,186
    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    The key requirement of the EU for long extension was indicative votes of what Parliament wants and taking part in the EU Parliament elections, whatever now happens today was the first step in extending Art 50 for years if not indefinitely, as confirmed by May today saying if the Commons will not vote for No Deal or her Deal it will have to be extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    England boss Gareth Southgate said he would report Montenegro to Uefa after claiming full-back Danny Rose was racially abused by home fans in Podgorica.

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47700628
  • Nothing has changed! I've been found in contempt of the house before, I will ignore it again! Nothing has changed!
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Sean_F said:

    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    I don't know what it achieves, either.
    Lidington's commitment was vague and very hedged, and didn't amount to much more than sort of unspecified debate later this week. Letwin is more specific in terms of process and timescale.

    But the real significant is symbolic - that the government whip has been decisively beaten and MPs are now determined to take a greater role.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218
    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    The key requirement of the EU for long extension was indicative votes of what Parliament wants and taking part in the EU Parliament elections, whatever now happens today was the first step in extending Art 50 for years if not indefinitely, as confirmed by May today saying if the Commons will not vote for No Deal or her Deal it will have to be extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections
    Christ no wonder May has no authority if that's the tosh she's coming out with.
  • dotsdots Posts: 615
    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    That is not control! It’s just an order paper destined for a bin.
    Control is power. The power is in the hands of people who if you don’t pass the WA will take us out with clean brexit. They won’t go to Europe with an indicative vote in their hands begging for long delay and soft brexit renegotiation.
    This vote tonight is a hideous moment in terms of getting the WA passed. We are slipping out of EU in a fit of blinkered madness.
  • OnlyLivingBoyOnlyLivingBoy Posts: 15,808
    The day the Brexit died.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,186
    kjohnw said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    Jeremy Corbyn next UK PM, the UK is screwed
    Guaranteeing BINO, albeit Boris likely becomes Leader of the Opposition
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710
    Think I might volunteer Wednesday afternoons to be a government minister, think they need the help?
  • ralphmalphralphmalph Posts: 2,201
    kjohnw said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    Jeremy Corbyn next UK PM, the UK is screwed
    I agree with this, wtf the Cons are doing is beyond me.
  • kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    The key requirement of the EU for long extension was indicative votes of what Parliament wants and taking part in the EU Parliament elections, whatever now happens today was the first step in extending Art 50 for years if not indefinitely, as confirmed by May today saying if the Commons will not vote for No Deal or her Deal it will have to be extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections
    the day parliament told the British People to do one, the instruction of the people has been ignored at what cost to our democracy
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,741
    HYUFD said:

    kjohnw said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    Jeremy Corbyn next UK PM, the UK is screwed
    Guaranteeing BINO, albeit Boris likely becomes Leader of the Opposition
    As long as it is only LOTO, that is fine :)
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,888

    England boss Gareth Southgate said he would report Montenegro to Uefa after claiming full-back Danny Rose was racially abused by home fans in Podgorica.

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47700628

    I was under the impression that we Post-EURef Brits were the most racist nation in Europe??
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,537
    Sean_F said:

    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    I don't know what it achieves, either.
    Essentially it enables the rebels to set the term of the indicative votes with a view to producing a convincing answer to the question, "We know what Parliament is against, but what is it for?" MPs didn't trust the Government not to set up a series of unlikely options to make the whole process look silly and easy to ignore.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,628
    So did any PBers predict that the government was going to win today ?
  • The ERG, eh? Bless their little cashmere socks.
  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    Yikes - 30 Tories rebelled.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    HYUFD said:

    Letwin amendment PASSES

    For 329
    Against 302

    Government loses and Parliament will take control on Wednesday of Commons business and hold indicative votes on all the Brexit options

    Good. May not help, given MPs not backing things has been more a problem than anything else, but maybe we will get lucky.

    kjohnw said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    Jeremy Corbyn next UK PM, the UK is screwed
    I agree with this, wtf the Cons are doing is beyond me.
    They are focusing on having internal arguments about Brexit rather than getting anything done about it, and will get everything they deserve.
  • NeilVWNeilVW Posts: 732

    Scott_P said:
    Is there an app called 'Random MP name generator' or am I just getting old and can't recognise these political titans?
    He’s always been a salty character.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218
    Letwin: 30 Tories

    Bebb
    Benyon
    Boles
    Brine
    Burt
    Clarke
    Collins
    Costa
    Djanogly
    Freeman
    Green
    Greening
    Grieve
    Gyimah
    Harrington
    Johnson (J)
    Lee
    Lefroy
    Letwin
    Masterton
    Mitchell
    Morgan
    Neill
    Newton
    Sandbach
    Soames
    Spelman
    Stevenson
    Vaizey

    Lab Against:

    Barron
    Campbell
    Cooper
    Flint
    Hepburn
    Hoey
    Mann
    Stringer
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,741

    So did any PBers predict that the government was going to win today ?

    Government? do we still have one of those?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705

    England boss Gareth Southgate said he would report Montenegro to Uefa after claiming full-back Danny Rose was racially abused by home fans in Podgorica.

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47700628

    I was under the impression that we Post-EURef Brits were the most racist nation in Europe??
    You're too impressionable Sunil... you'll be falling for the Leave campaign next!
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810

    Scott_P said:
    Is there an app called 'Random MP name generator' or am I just getting old and can't recognise these political titans?
    Brine rubs salt into the wound

  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163

    The day the Brexit died.

    That was quite a few days ago.
  • DruttDrutt Posts: 1,124
    I'm not booking Wednesday off to watch the HOC, having said it wants to find a solution because the the PM's deal is unpopular, find its proposals are also unpopular and that it can't find a solution.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,414
    Scott_P said:
    What the hell is this fetishisation of the DUP? Either the ERG climb down or they don't. What the drum bashes have to say is incidental.
    Do they take the DUP whip, or what?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    Any prediction for this one?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Not a good day for the government.

    - May prevented from running indicative votes, despite expecting to be defeated on the amendment

    - May forced to recognise an effective parliamentary veto on any no deal exit

    - The government doesn't appear to have made progress building support for MV3

    - Loss on Letwin bigger than expected, coupled with more junior resignations.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    TGOHF said:

    Yippee - Euro elections and a huge spike in payments to the EU.

    Happy days.

    If there's a majority for that then it was inevitable whatever the result of the vote today, since a way would have been found.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,621
    Pulpstar said:

    Letwin: 30 Tories

    Bebb
    Benyon
    Boles
    Brine
    Burt
    Clarke
    Collins
    Costa
    Djanogly
    Freeman
    Green
    Greening
    Grieve
    Gyimah
    Harrington
    Johnson (J)
    Lee
    Lefroy
    Letwin
    Masterton
    Mitchell
    Morgan
    Neill
    Newton
    Sandbach
    Soames
    Spelman
    Stevenson
    Vaizey

    Lab Against:

    Barron
    Campbell
    Cooper
    Flint
    Hepburn
    Hoey
    Mann
    Stringer

    Yvette Cooper against??
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,628

    Scott_P said:
    Is there an app called 'Random MP name generator' or am I just getting old and can't recognise these political titans?
    First its sportsmen who look younger than you are then its policemen then its politicians.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,872

    Oh bugger.....

    Humbled by a small Balkan nation, which uses the Euro. Better get used to it.
    This is a post that did not age well.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,186
    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    HYUFD said:

    dots said:

    So TAKING BACK CONTROL is an attempt that could yet still fail, to control order paper for indicative votes that if one did squeak over line is hardly going to be ringing endorsement of way forward to take back to Europe, and in any case will simply be ignored by government if it wasn’t in the manifesto that won them government.

    Never has nothing breached trade description act so outrageously than naming this thing taking back control. It’s not worth the order paper it’s written on, might as well just write indicative votes on loo paper and just flush them away.

    Where’s HY? You were wrong HY!!! Admit it.

    Repeat after me, there’s just the two options, vote for the WA or clean brexit.

    Nothing else is in play!

    Nope, the EU made clear all they need for further extension is an indication of what the Commons might support and participation in the EU Parliament elections.

    May also made clear today given the Commons will not support No Deal the only alternative is further extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections until it passes her Deal.


    The last election also produced a hung parliament not a Tory majority
    It produced a Tory government! They won.

    Stop going by what May says. On No Deal May is looking all ways at once. What a laughable position. What a laughable caricature she has become. What she rules out before lunch she rules back in before tea!

    Truth is, when it comes to the crunch, there’s more clean brexiteers in cabinet, government, party than those that would stop them. That’s what the failed coup proved.

    You are being proved wrong HY, Parliament cannot take control, and no one From this government will be allowed by their colleagues to fly to Europe and beg for that long extension.
    Parliament just has taken control, BINO here we come
    That is not control! It’s just an order paper destined for a bin.
    Control is power. The power is in the hands of people who if you don’t pass the WA will take us out with clean brexit. They won’t go to Europe with an indicative vote in their hands begging for long delay and soft brexit renegotiation.
    This vote tonight is a hideous moment in terms of getting the WA passed. We are slipping out of EU in a fit of blinkered madness.
    Nope, it will be indefinite extension and we will probably never leave, provided there are Commons indicative votes showing what the Commons might agree and we participate in the EU elections the EU and Tusk made clear there can be a lengthy extension
  • The Commons can vote to mandate the moon on a stick for all the good it will do them. May remains Prime Minister and if she refuses to yield to the will of the house it only leaves two options.

    One, the house tries to remove her government with a no confidence vote,. The ERG would hug her close and she would win. Or, if a squeaked loss, she remains PM until or unless an alternative PM could try for a confidence vote. Which puts us beyond the decision date for Brexit.
    Two, the Tory party tries to remove her. She likely clings on ignoring the deputation which comes to her outside a of party rules. Or if a squeaked loss makes her resign, she remains PM until a Tory leadership campaign is concluded. Which also puts us beyond the decision date for Brexit.

    She can go on and on. Regardless of what her party or the Commons think UNLESS a majority of MPs suddenly coalesce around a unity emergency government OR the Tories do so around a unity emergency leader.
  • Looks like no news as usual. We are going to go on kicking this deal around as we basically have since November.
    Brtiain wants to be inspired.
    I'm convinced the economy would be energised with No deal.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810

    So did any PBers predict that the government was going to win today ?


    Didn’t Southam?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218
    Barnesian said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Letwin: 30 Tories

    Bebb
    Benyon
    Boles
    Brine
    Burt
    Clarke
    Collins
    Costa
    Djanogly
    Freeman
    Green
    Greening
    Grieve
    Gyimah
    Harrington
    Johnson (J)
    Lee
    Lefroy
    Letwin
    Masterton
    Mitchell
    Morgan
    Neill
    Newton
    Sandbach
    Soames
    Spelman
    Stevenson
    Vaizey

    Lab Against:

    Barron
    Campbell
    Cooper
    Flint
    Hepburn
    Hoey
    Mann
    Stringer

    Yvette Cooper against??
    Rosie Cooper
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 39,653
    edited March 2019
    Nicky Morgan’s bizarre Brexit journey continues, then.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395

    Any prediction for this one?

    What are they voting on now?
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    kle4 said:

    TGOHF said:

    Yippee - Euro elections and a huge spike in payments to the EU.

    Happy days.

    If there's a majority for that then it was inevitable whatever the result of the vote today, since a way would have been found.

    No point in the DUP propping up this pathetic government - GE here we come..

  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    Barnesian said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Letwin: 30 Tories

    Bebb
    Benyon
    Boles
    Brine
    Burt
    Clarke
    Collins
    Costa
    Djanogly
    Freeman
    Green
    Greening
    Grieve
    Gyimah
    Harrington
    Johnson (J)
    Lee
    Lefroy
    Letwin
    Masterton
    Mitchell
    Morgan
    Neill
    Newton
    Sandbach
    Soames
    Spelman
    Stevenson
    Vaizey

    Lab Against:

    Barron
    Campbell
    Cooper
    Flint
    Hepburn
    Hoey
    Mann
    Stringer

    Yvette Cooper against??
    Rosie Cooper.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,628
    dixiedean said:

    Scott_P said:
    What the hell is this fetishisation of the DUP? Either the ERG climb down or they don't. What the drum bashes have to say is incidental.
    Do they take the DUP whip, or what?
    They want someone else to blame.
  • Looks like no news as usual. We are going to go on kicking this deal around as we basically have since November.
    Brtiain wants to be inspired.
    I'm convinced the economy would be energised with No deal.

    Oh it would be energised alright. Not in a good way
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,186
    Barnesian said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Letwin: 30 Tories

    Bebb
    Benyon
    Boles
    Brine
    Burt
    Clarke
    Collins
    Costa
    Djanogly
    Freeman
    Green
    Greening
    Grieve
    Gyimah
    Harrington
    Johnson (J)
    Lee
    Lefroy
    Letwin
    Masterton
    Mitchell
    Morgan
    Neill
    Newton
    Sandbach
    Soames
    Spelman
    Stevenson
    Vaizey

    Lab Against:

    Barron
    Campbell
    Cooper
    Flint
    Hepburn
    Hoey
    Mann
    Stringer

    Yvette Cooper against??
    No, Rosie Cooper MP for Leave voting West Lancashire
  • kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    edited March 2019
    "They are focusing on having internal arguments about Brexit rather than getting anything done about it, and will get everything they deserve."

    let me see how you feel about that when Corbyn unleashes full blown marxism on the UK and we become like Venezuela. It will make no deal look like heaven
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    dixiedean said:

    Scott_P said:
    What the hell is this fetishisation of the DUP? Either the ERG climb down or they don't. What the drum bashes have to say is incidental.
    Do they take the DUP whip, or what?
    In effect, yes. And boy howdy do the DUP love it. Too much, since there probably won't be a Tory government for much longer for them to lord it over, but they just cannot seem to help themselves stringing them along, no doubt demanding huge amounts behind the scenes, and generally acting like they don't care what happens because their seats are almost all safe.

    Some ERG people want to climb down but are too embarrassed to do so without DUP cover. The DUP probably don't want want to be seen as the reason others climbed down, so want others to do it first.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    edited March 2019
    Once we have digested the effect of this HoC, worth reading this about Avenatti...he is in a world of hurt, some crazy crazy allegations.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/25/michael-avenatti-to-be-charged-with-wire-and-bank-fraud.html
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    AndyJS said:

    Any prediction for this one?

    What are they voting on now?
    F. Other plan to block no deal
    More technically prescriptive than amendment C, this says that if the UK is seven calendar days from leaving without a deal, the house should be recalled to consider a motion on whether or not MPs approve such a move.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,621
    Pulpstar said:

    Barnesian said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Letwin: 30 Tories

    Bebb
    Benyon
    Boles
    Brine
    Burt
    Clarke
    Collins
    Costa
    Djanogly
    Freeman
    Green
    Greening
    Grieve
    Gyimah
    Harrington
    Johnson (J)
    Lee
    Lefroy
    Letwin
    Masterton
    Mitchell
    Morgan
    Neill
    Newton
    Sandbach
    Soames
    Spelman
    Stevenson
    Vaizey

    Lab Against:

    Barron
    Campbell
    Cooper
    Flint
    Hepburn
    Hoey
    Mann
    Stringer

    Yvette Cooper against??
    Rosie Cooper
    Ah thanks. Thought it was bizarre.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Taxes are going to have to rise to pay the extra EU membership fees - may as well let Jezza raise em.

    There really is no point in this government - let it fall.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218

    Nicky Morgan’s bizarre Brexit journey continues, then.

    I think she just wants to try and find a consensus, as does say Masterton (And Indeed Letwin and Soames) who also voted for Letwin. Do not confuse all the votes there for 2nd ref/revoke or even Corbyn's customs unicorn.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,186
    edited March 2019
    kjohnw said:

    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    So ? Letwin is about a process that the Gov't said it would follow anyway. Still doesn't produce a majority for anything in the house.
    The key requirement of the EU for long extension was indicative votes of what Parliament wants and taking part in the EU Parliament elections, whatever now happens today was the first step in extending Art 50 for years if not indefinitely, as confirmed by May today saying if the Commons will not vote for No Deal or her Deal it will have to be extension and participation in the EU Parliament elections
    the day parliament told the British People to do one, the instruction of the people has been ignored at what cost to our democracy
    UKIP already up to 9% with Opinium tonight, even before tonight's vote. Farage almost certain to launch his Brexit Party soon too.


    As if on cue...

    https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1110305907441836043?s=20
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