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muriel_volestrangler

(102,477 posts) Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:41 AM Apr 2019

"Common Market 2.0" about to get a plurality of MP votes?

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So @CiceroGlobal have crunched the numbers and have @NickBoles's Common Market 2.0 motion winning by 307 to 253, now that Labour are whipping in favour of it. As the least Brexity of all the Brexit options, that would put an enormous predatory cat among the Tory pigeons...

And it would reinforce the PM's case to her rebel MPs that if they hold out against her deal till it can't even make a Carrie style hand-up-through-the-grave comeback, they may end up with the kind of Brexit that would might well be identified as Remain in a police line up

Not over half of the Commons voting for it (Sinn Fein abstain, as always, and cabinet members have been told to abstain as they id before - not sure how Cicero Global put that in their numbers), but it could be a significant margin it's passed by.

I love Peston's metaphors - Carrie, police line up, predatory cats ... a bit mixed, though.

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"Common Market 2.0" about to get a plurality of MP votes? (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Apr 2019 OP

But "freedom of movement" is the little english racists' Ghost Dog Apr 2019 #1

It didn't get a majority anyway muriel_volestrangler Apr 2019 #2

Yup: Ghost Dog Apr 2019 #3

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)

1. But "freedom of movement" is the little english racists'

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Apr 1, 2019, 04:17 PM

Apr 2019

bottom red line, is it not?

muriel_volestrangler

(102,477 posts)

2. It didn't get a majority anyway

Reply to Ghost Dog (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 1, 2019, 04:20 PM

Apr 2019

see https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142296532

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)

3. Yup:

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 1, 2019, 04:24 PM

Apr 2019

The results of the votes were:

Motion C: Committing the government to negotiating "a permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU" as part of any Brexit deal - proposed by Tory former chancellor Ken Clarke - lost by 273 votes for to 276 votes against
Motion D: Referred to as Common Market 2.0, this option would mean joining the European Free Trade Association and European Economic Area - proposed by Tory MP Nick Boles - lost by 261 votes for to 282 votes against
Motion E: This is for a confirmatory referendum, giving the public a vote to approve any Brexit deal passed by Parliament before it can be implemented - proposed by Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson - lost by 280 votes for to 292 votes against
Motion G: The motion aims to prevent the UK leaving without a deal, including a vote on whether to revoke Article 50 - stopping Brexit - if the EU does not agree to an extension - proposed by the SNP's Joanna Cherry - lost by 191 votes for to 292 votes against...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47781009

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