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posted by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the 3rd-time-lucky? dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47547887:

Theresa May's EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs[*] by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit.

MPs voted down the prime minister's deal by 149 - a smaller margin than when they rejected it in January.

Mrs May said MPs will now get a vote on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal and, if that fails, on whether Brexit should be delayed.

She said Tory MPs will get a free vote on a no-deal Brexit.

That means they can vote with their conscience rather than following the orders of party managers - an unusual move for a vote on a major policy, with Labour saying it showed she had "given up any pretence of leading the country".

The PM had made a last minute plea to MPs to back her deal after she had secured legal assurances on the Irish backstop from the EU.

But although she managed to convince about 40 Tory MPs to change their mind, it was not nearly enough to overturn the historic 230 vote defeat she suffered in January, throwing her Brexit strategy into fresh disarray.

[*] MP: Member of Parliament; PM: Prime Minister


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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday March 15 2019, @02:27AM

    by driverless (4770) on Friday March 15 2019, @02:27AM (#814600)

    As the above shows, despite its nonsensical nature it has a surprising foothold in some areas. Let me guess, the ACs who replied are either American neo-nazis/white supremacists, or white South Africans? That's the two main areas where it's taken hold, among neo-nazis because, well, they're neo-nazis (which is kind of weird given that the original nazis actively recruited muslims for the SS Handschar division, here's them at prayer in Germany [wikimedia.org]), and among white South Africans as a kind of PTSD response to seeing what was formerly the most prosperous country in Africa slowly turning into another Zimbabwe via the ANC, which I do have some sympathy for even if the response is rather irrational.

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