Monday, 14 January 2019

Meaningful Vote

The time has finally arrived for the meaningful vote.

It was promised last December, only to be pulled at the last minute. So there is no guarantee that it will take place at all, tomorrow. But the time is now here, surely here, for Parliament to have its say and that the answer must surely be no. The vote would take us out of the European Union, remove freedom of movement both ways, subject us to rules over which we have no say. It is a bad deal.

What I love about this is that the Brexiteers are so ignorant and prejudice that they would rather stop us leaving the EU just because they can't stand the idea of us temporarily being ruled by another entity, even temporarily as a pathway to Brexit. It says it all that they would sacrifice their own dreams on the alter of their hatred of the EU.

Well let them, it helps me and everyone else who doesn't want to leave the EU anyway. If this deal is voted down then the threat being peddled by Theresa May is (last week) of a no-deal, and (this week) of a no Brexit. Well I vote for a no Brexit.

Hopefully once this deal is voted down we can see Parliament exert itself and take back control. There lies another irony as its the same slogan used by Brexiteers in 2016, only now they are not too keen on it when it means preventing them hurtling towards no deal.

The whole thing is a mess. Hopefully we can extend or abort Article 50 and either stop Brexit once and for all, or put it all to the country again with a People's Vote.

Interesting times. What will Labour do? Will they manage to seize power? Will Parliament manage to stop Brexit. Will Theresa May fight on and change all our lives forever?