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Brexit: Bill intended to block no deal to become law after being passed by House of Lords

TU Curmudgeon

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From The Guardian

Brexit: Bill intended to block no deal to become law after being passed by House of Lords
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Peers pass Benn bill blocking no-deal Brexit on 31 October, paving way for it to become law on Monday

The Benn bill, intended to prevent a no-deal Brexit on 31 October, has just been approved by the House of Lords. It passed the upper house without being amended, which means that it does not have to go back to the House of Commons. It will become law as soon as it gets royal assent, which should happen on Monday.

There were two votes earlier today, on Brexiter amendments intended to sabotage the bill, but they were easily defeated – by 268 votes to 47, and by 283 votes to 28.

Earlier in the week a group of Tory Brexiter peers tried to filibuster a motion designed to allow the bill to clear the Lords by the end of today.

But they backed down after dragging out a debate past 1am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning after the opposition parties agreed not to use guillotine motions.

COMMENT:-

When asked for his reaction to this development, Mr. Johnson said "!@#^$$& @&#FG&* @$&)GEG$*DFDD".

When the correspondent from AKME International News, Rumours, and Page 3 Photos asked Mr. Trump about it he said “I do have a great message for great England. And we have great Mike Pence, our great vice president, is just about landing right now. And he is representing great me. I look forward to being there soon. But I just want to congratulate great England. It’s a great country with great people. We also have many great English people in our great country; it could be 8 million. BUT, that bit about something that I haven't signed actually becoming law is just more 'FAKE NEWS' because the constitution says that nothing can become law unless the President signs it and I'm the President and I haven't signed it."​
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From The Guardian

Brexit: Bill intended to block no deal to become law after being passed by House of Lords
​

Peers pass Benn bill blocking no-deal Brexit on 31 October, paving way for it to become law on Monday

The Benn bill, intended to prevent a no-deal Brexit on 31 October, has just been approved by the House of Lords. It passed the upper house without being amended, which means that it does not have to go back to the House of Commons. It will become law as soon as it gets royal assent, which should happen on Monday.

There were two votes earlier today, on Brexiter amendments intended to sabotage the bill, but they were easily defeated – by 268 votes to 47, and by 283 votes to 28.

Earlier in the week a group of Tory Brexiter peers tried to filibuster a motion designed to allow the bill to clear the Lords by the end of today.

But they backed down after dragging out a debate past 1am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning after the opposition parties agreed not to use guillotine motions.

COMMENT:-

When asked for his reaction to this development, Mr. Johnson said "!@#^$$& @&#FG&* @$&)GEG$*DFDD".

When the correspondent from AKME International News, Rumours, and Page 3 Photos asked Mr. Trump about it he said “I do have a great message for great England. And we have great Mike Pence, our great vice president, is just about landing right now. And he is representing great me. I look forward to being there soon. But I just want to congratulate great England. It’s a great country with great people. We also have many great English people in our great country; it could be 8 million. BUT, that bit about something that I haven't signed actually becoming law is just more 'FAKE NEWS' because the constitution says that nothing can become law unless the President signs it and I'm the President and I haven't signed it."​
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Your comments always crack me up. I look forward to when the Great Big Baby Balloon follows Trump to London.
 
Three Tory PM's, each worse than the one before, could not get Brexit done. They have no plan to get over the backstop, no plan to keep the UK out of the financial fallout of a no-deal. Brexit is nothing but an anti-immigrant, anti-EU reactionary movement, and the hardliners are finding this out the hard way. :laughat:

If Brexit cannot be done right then they need to seriously rethink doing Brexit at all.
 
Phys251 said:
Three Tory PM's, each worse than the one before, could not get Brexit done. They have no plan to get over the backstop, no plan to keep the UK out of the financial fallout of a no-deal. Brexit is nothing but an anti-immigrant, anti-EU reactionary movement, and the hardliners are finding this out the hard way. :laughat:

If Brexit cannot be done right then they need to seriously rethink doing Brexit at all.
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If a Conservative PM can't carry the House of Commons that's one thing, but if a Conservative PM can't carry the (notoriously) conservative House of Lords, then it's time to review your "The Sky Is Falling" insurance to ensure that you are actually covered.
 
So whose pockets are getting fat that a terrible deal is preferable and would be forced upon the UK rather than no deal. Of course this is just an effort to scrap the whole damn thing.

Too bad too...There was a time when Brits had a little scrap in them...but I guess they gave up that fight a while ago, well before Brexit... it's a shame though, Parliament seems to be determined to make the UK the continent's bitch.
 
ChezC3 said:
So whose pockets are getting fat that a terrible deal is preferable and would be forced upon the UK rather than no deal. Of course this is just an effort to scrap the whole damn thing.

Too bad too...There was a time when Brits had a little scrap in them...but I guess they gave up that fight a while ago, well before Brexit... it's a shame though, Parliament seems to be determined to make the UK the continent's bitch.
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Thank you for your in depth and detailed analysis.
 
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