Budget Amendment Defeated

[Peter Pedant]

Commons vote tonight - a budget amendment was defeated by the DUP abstaining. This apparently was in warning that hte DUP dont like her agreement and will bring down the government.

various questions -
does this mean - as AOG would ask - that we will be murdered in our beds tonight by the Fenians? - sorry the Fenian hordes invading from Ireland ?

that the govt will fall sometime soon and we will have a general election ?

Corbyn will soon be our PM ?

nothing - more of the same chaos ....?

[Khandro]

Caligula loved one of his horses, Incitatus, so much that he gave the steed a marble stall, an ivory manger, a jewelled collar and even a house. So why not elect Jeremy Corbyn?

[Peter Pedant]

and made him a senator

I like the classical allusion - do you know if Caligula voted for brexit ?

[Khandro]

//do you know if Caligula voted for brexit ?//

That is an interesting question, I'll sleep on it.

[Davemano]

22:54 19 Nov



DUP abstains on votes in Finance Bill



The DUP has abstained on a number of votes in the Finance Bill, currently being debated in the Commons.

A senior DUP source said the abstentions were designed to warn the government that "it can’t be business as usual

[vetuste_ennemi]

Didn't uncle Claudius invade Britain?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Sea shells on a sea shore? Tribute to or from Neptune? Where does that come from?

Where's Tacitus when you need him?

[emmie]

no one likes this deal, it should be scrapped.

[cassa333]

That’s not true emmie.

Generally the Business world like it and the EU like it.

Both reasons to be wary really.

[emmie]

but the SNP, ROI. NI, don't like it, and its got to get through Parliament, will that happen i wonder.
i would go with No Deal..

[ichkeria]

The ROI does like the deal. And I see no evidence that Remain-voting “NI” is broadly against it. The DUP is, but the DUP is only fractionally the largest party there, where unlike in England and Scotland the ruling party does not share the will of the greater number of voters to remain/leave.
Plainly Nigel Dodds and co are in toys out of pram mode just now: whether they’d ever go as far as eventually risk an election and with it almost certainly Brexit, by voting down the government, remains to be seen.

[youngmafbog]

"Corbyn will soon be our PM ? "

That is now quite a possibility. I predict that other lifelong Tories, like myself, will no longer support this Tory party that in reality is a liberal party. Traitor May will have wrecked the Home office, wrecked the Tory Party and wrecked the UK. She will be remembered for centuries, in the history books.

Simply put, Corbyn no longer seems such a threat, particularly since his hands will be very tied as Treason gives more power to Bruxelles. So brin it on and lets see Traitor May dumped out on her harris.

[Spicerack]

Corbyn abstained.

[Peter Pedant]

well thank you for all your comments
It turns out to be more like Jacob RM's revolt ( non starter that is)

atho I did rather think it was a smoking gun in the wings

[Khandro]

'Accompanied by two bodyguards, Al Capone took his seat at the opera house. After the first aria, the goons rose to leave, whereupon Al grabbed them by their coattails: "Siddown," he growled, "it ain't over till the fat lady sings" '.

[gulliver1]

European Court Hearing , to consider if article 50 can be revoked, gets the go ahead for Nov 27th....... OMG.

[dannyk13]

Gulliver
Link?

[jim360]

Not sure it's made the main news, yet -- and I wouldn't get too excited about it -- but here's a link in passing to the story:

https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/in-the-matter-of-secretary-of-state-for-exiting-the-european-union-v-wightman-and-others.pdf

In essence, a few MPs have asked the courts (and, ultimately, the Court of Justice of the European Union) to rule on the legal question as to whether or not Article 50 Notification can be withdrawn. It may be a hypothetical question, or it may matter after all.

[dannyk13]

Jim, last paragraph of your link //It will therefore remain for the Court of Session to give judgment.//
So the final ruling rests with us and not the EU.

[jim360]

Ah, yes. My apologies. Thanks for the correction. Maybe after our Court of Session reaches a ruling it might end up moving all the way through the courts again, mind.

[emmie]

i thought once Article 50 was triggered there was no going back.