.NickdMiller: The UK government managed to shoot itself in the foot with a gun that had no bullets in it Brexit
The whole motion lacked any legal effect. It was just an expression of Parliament’s will, that bound nobody and changed no law. In this polarised, angry political scene, here was a rare chance for everyone to just get along.
But it "whipped" a vote against an amendment proposed by a Conservative MP, which aimed to refine the motion very slightly to take out a line that pointed out that no-deal Brexit was still the legal default.The whip persuaded the MP to drop the amendment. But it was too late: it had been tabled, and a Labour MP made sure it got a vote. And the amendment passed.The government proposed a motion that almost everyone agreed with and would change nothing.
Said Harrison: “We were just discussing in my office actually, how we would describe the current situation. And using good old Cumbrian terminology, we were really torn between whether it’s a pig’s ear, a dog’s dinner or a cat’s arse.”
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