MPs vote on bill intended to stop no-deal Brexit on 31 October
MPs are now voting on the Benn bill.
The result will be announced in about 15 minutes.
More than 100,000 people have applied to register to vote in the past 48 hours, with young people making up the bulk of the surge.
On Monday, 52,408 applications were submitted, according to government figures, followed by 64,485 on Tuesday.
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MPs give bill to stop no-deal Brexit second reading by majority of 29
MPs have voted to give the bill to stop a no-deal Brexit on 31 October a second reading by 329 votes to 300 - a majority of 29.
That majority is two bigger than the one last night (when the SO24 motion was passed by 328 votes to 301).
MPs are now debating amendments to the bill.
Sir Mike Penning, a Tory Brexiter, has just complained that printed copies of the amendments are not available yet in the vote office.
Lindsay Hoyle, the deputy speaker, says they will appear soon, and well before voting at 7pm.
Can someone speak to Dominic Cummings motivations in all of this? As an American, my understanding of him comes from the movie âBrexitâ where he was played by Cumberbatch as someone who was only interested in manipulating public sentiment (by any means possible) and wasnât making a statement on idiological grounds. Is he just a wackjob begging for someone to listen to him??
Amazing work itt smacc, btw. Much appreciated.
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I donât know if Cummingsâ drunk behaviour has been chronicled much here but
Oh dear, whatâs going on here? Do we have a game of pass the parcel with the contents being highly explosive?
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Just amazing how they manage to do this at a time when the economy is contracting, and not at any previous time over the past, oh, 8 years. Canât possibly be related to an anticipated general election.
Wish our president had to do that. Id like to see him and AOC go at it.
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No government department will have its budget cut next year in real terms, he said, adding that this protection âis what I mean by the end of austerityâ.
Tell that to the Universal Credit applicantâs who are still waiting after 6 fucking months.
The review comes against a backdrop of a weakening domestic economy and falling exports. Recent surveys have shown that a contraction in GDP of 0.1% in the second quarter of the year will accelerate to nearer 0.3% in the third. Two consecutive quarters of negative growth indicate the economy is in a recession.
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Weâll there we go, backstop sorted.
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What comes next in the Commons tonight?
MPs are now voting on amendments to the Benn bill, which is designed to stop a no-deal Brexit on 31 October. We donât know yet how many amendments will be put to a vote. Each vote takes about 15 minutes. But it may well be that all amendments get voted down.
According to the Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, there are rumours there could be 10 votes on amendments.
Here comes the 1st of many stalling tactics by the bastardsâŚ
MPs agree amendment to Benn bill to put cross-party version of Mayâs deal back on table
MPs started voting on Stephen Kinnockâs amendment 6. But then, a few minutes into voting, Lindsay Hoyle, announced that the division had been called off because the amendment had been passed - because MPs opposed to it did not put up tellers.
Here is the explanation of what the Kinnock amendment does.
This amendment would set out as the purpose of seeking an extension under article 50(3) TEU the passage of a withdrawal agreement bill based on the outcome of the inter-party talks which concluded in May 2019 â see NC1 for contents of the Bill and Amendment XX for text of the request letter to the European Council.
This means that, if the PM needs to request an article 50 extension (because he has not negotiated a new deal, and MPs have not voted to approve a no-deal Brexit), then getting an extension to pass a version of the Theresa May deal becomes government policy.
Effectively, that means that any Brexit delay would not be a blind delay; it would be a delay to enable a version of the Theresa May going through.
It is not clear whether this has passed by accident - or as a result of some cunning plot.
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Absolutely outrageous, scamming fuckers.
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