Don’t know. I’d have to look at Hansard.
I do know that he made a big deal about the Government calling for a second vote approximately 20 minutes after losing the first.
The vote on whether the bill can be read again is about to be announced.
And will pass I reckon. Johnson may actually win a vote.
329-299 Government wins
Next vote will be closer.
Government loses 322-308.
Parliament wants more time to scrutinise Johnson’s deal.
Johnson has paused Brexit legislation.
Yeah sounds about right. Parliament wants more time to scrutinise, Johnson pauses bill so they can’t until we know how long we’ve got.
They needed relatively no time to scrutinise the Benn Act. Done and dusted within hours.
Parliament is a fickle thing.
Was it 110 pages long with an obvious no deal trap in it?
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Not a great comparison. Like comparing a flyer with a novel.
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I do not see it that way, Filip. I think it is perfectly sensible that if the EU fucks us about on the trade agreement, as it has done with the withdrawal agreement for three years, we can walk away.
It also puts a bit of impetus on the EU to conjure up something we can all live with.
Two weeks until the 5th of November
Surely there is a loon out there who can see the opportunity
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The whole circular clause thing is just very odd. No doubt Hedge Fund owners hoped to double up with a 31st out and a No Deal on 1st Jan 2021.
Not a fan of delay for political purposes but that was fishy and deserved legal counsel assessment at least
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Why is that date important?
I thought it was this
"Operative date
The measure will have effect from 1 January 2019."
Obviously not.
Maybe this
"Operative date
The changes included in this measure implement the provisions of the ATAD into UK law, adapting the current rules where appropriate, with effect from 1 January 2020."
Oh that’s probably just a coincidence.
Remember what pig fucker asked the EU to make an exception for?
“The scope of persons covered by particular exchanges of information depends on the subject matter. The Directive covers natural persons (i.e. individuals), legal persons (i.e. companies), and any other legal arrangements like trusts and foundations that are resident in one or more of the EU Member States”
Follow what negatively affects the corporation(or the USoWH) and the answers are usually clear.
PR man from a tax avoidance/money laundering background calls a referendum on the only issue that saves his family/friends and suffers an unexpected lose. How fucking gullible are people?
One of the most depressing things from a Labour Leave voters perspective is the amount of Remain scare stories in the vein of what @Saint-or-sinner has just posted that are predicated on a highly unlikely thing.
Tories in perpetuity.
The other point that is perhaps lost is that most of the people that get vilified for gaining out of Brexit are already fucking loaded and have gained from the EU too.
This sort of argument is designed to paint Brexit solely as a far right, Tory concern that will benefit only the very richest. It ignores the fact that the vast majority of people voting for Brexit were working class, including five million Labour voters.
Out of 17m
How many labour voters voted remain out of interest, insuspect more than 5 mil… but I forget you need to poor and working class to vote labour…
Maybe if you asked those five million WHY they voted Brexit and we could have a sensible discussion on the impact of Tory austerity… big chunk of reaction to that is highly likely…