House of Commons votes against ALL Brexit options
Okay so... a few days ago, the House of Commons voted to basically throw hundreds of years of constitutional convention in the bin and the Commons seized control of the standing order (business of Parliament) papers for a day, from the government. It may seem nothing to some, but the fact they are trashing convention in this way will have consequences in the future in the same way the Speaker now openly taking sides has now caused severe long-term damage to the office itself.
But anyway, so they did that (led by the likes of 'Sir' Oliver Letwin, Dominic Grieve, Nick Boles, Hilary Benn... you know, the usual suspects) and said "Parliament will now take back control" from the government on this issue. So tonight, the Remainers plotted a series of "indicative votes" whereby the Commons would vote on options which have ALREADY been defeated time and time again (but Speaker Bercow doesn't mind Remain amendments coming back multiple times) thinking they would win.
And the result? The Commons couldn't agree on *any* course of action.
The Indicative Vote result on an alternative Brexit - NOTHING wins:
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) March 27, 2019
Common Market 2.0 (Boles) - 188 v 283
EFTA (Norway option) – 65 v 377
Customs union – 264 v 272
Labour's soft Brexit – 237 v 307
Revoking – 184 v 293
Confirmatory vote - 268 v 295
Managed No Deal – 139 v 422Not one indicative vote passes. More chaos.
— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) March 27, 2019
Oliver Letwin stands up to speak. MPs shout: "Resign."No majority for anything in Parliament, but there is a majority in the country to leave the EU.
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) March 27, 2019
Our politicians must stop trying to undo our vote or face a massive backlash from voters.WATCH | Brilliant from Mark Francois: "This attempt to seize the order paper has FAILED. The second referendum has been DEFEATED. The revocation of Article 50 was SMASHED! And surely, the last thing we want to do on Monday is go through this farce all over again!" pic.twitter.com/yeD3ffiaZ4
— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) March 27, 2019
So we're now back to square one with No Deal as the legal de facto.
I had a right laugh tonight though, thanks Letwin/Grieve/Boles/Benn.