(03-26-2019, 04:43 PM)hazard Wrote: Well, the people have been heard: According to the petition, the government will not revoke Article 50 and will honour the 2016 referendum.
Also, Parliament will debate the matter on April 1st. This is the time to write a form letter/e-mail and send it to everyone who signed it and ask them to send an actual paper letter to their MP with a clear demand for revocation, or delay until a new referendum can voted upon.
Why paper?
Because a wall of e-mail entries doesn't have the same impact as having the Royal Mail deliver literal sacks of mail in the offices of members of Parliament, all with the same topic.
"Your pleas have been heard and ignored. "
April 1st. There's something else that happens on that day. Something about fools. Anyway - it'l be superfluous by then. I think, legally, they're still going to crash out on Friday as it stands, despite having been offered the extensioins. They've yet to formally claim them
(03-26-2019, 06:05 PM)robkelk Wrote:(03-26-2019, 12:54 PM)Jinx999 Wrote:(03-26-2019, 12:47 PM)Epsilon Wrote: I really am surprised that every vote on Brexit in the UK parliament is not a vote of no confidence. Given the impact on the nation will be considerably larger than any yearly budget and every budget has to be a confidence vote how can they get away with constantly voting down the government while still claiming the government is in charge?
1) They tried a vote of no confidence earlier. It didn't go through.
They had a vote that was only a vote of no confidence. Canada just went through nearly a full day (and night) of line-by-lines votes of the proposed budget, every one of which was also a vote of confidence.
That's what's needed here - one of the options to be a confidence vote. Vote it down and you're out on the campaign trail, looking to get your job back and explaining to your constituents why you voted the way you did.
(03-26-2019, 12:54 PM)Jinx999 Wrote: 2) Nobody wants to be stuck with this tar baby.
Which is why nobody wants to give Ms. May a no-confidence vote. Who has to take over?
They tried it a few weeks back. The Tory party is quite happy to remain in Power - even if it has no idea what to do with it. Theresa May is much the same, it seems. Anyway, I think the only way they can have a no-confidence vote these days is by a specific House has no confidence in Goverment motion - everything else is just sort of agreed as conventional wisdom without being set in stone as things that must happen.
Although the Moggster has started to at least suggest he will back The Deal if the DUP will.
So it may yet be Third Time Lucky.
If the Speaker permits to vote to happen.
Tick-Tock.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.