[Politics] Brexit

[Stat Brother]

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[Thunder Bolt]

Northern Ireland minister Vara has resigned. First of many?

 

[Gwylan]

Brexit is just too big for any single party to navigate harmoniously. The last election was a good one to lose.

Which is why I said right from the outset that May should have had Labour on the negotiating team. Not only is Starmer a sharper cookie than Davis and Raab but it would have nullified the threat from the ERG, would have meant not being at the DUP's beck and call and would have ensured that if it all went Pete Tong, then the Tories wouldn't have got all the blame.

May's gone down a single path, one where's she scarcely got whole-hearted support from her own party, This deal will never get through parliament and she's entirely to blame for it.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

your beloved ***** on the left

I resigned from the Labour Party due to Corbyn. They’re not my “beloved *****” on the left.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Which is why I said right from the outset that May should have had Labour on the negotiating team. Not only is Starmer a sharper cookie than Davis and Raab but it would have nullified the threat from the ERG, would have meant not being at the DUP's beck and call and would have ensured that if it all went Pete Tong, then the Tories wouldn't have got all the blame.

May's gone down a single path, one where's she scarcely got whole-hearted support from her own party, This deal will never get through parliament and she's entirely to blame for it.

But why would Labour want to put themselves forward to be part of the biggest f*** up in recent history ?

The three options (soft Brexit, No deal, Remain) were obvious from the outset. I don't believe changing the negotiating team would have changed the EUs position or the outcome other than to give someone else to blame. TM knew it was a poisoned chalice but you can see why she stepped forward. It was her one opportunity to become PM and her ambition overruled her common sense.

What case could there possibly have been for Labour stepping forward to share the blame for a situation created by David Cameron ?

 

[nicko31]

Keir Starmer has just said Labour will not vote for this deal, and so have the DUP.

Got a feeling some Labour MP's will abstain and May will win the vote by the skin of her teeth

Of course this a draft, and some EU countries may want the withdrawl agreement amended

 

[studio150]

Northern Ireland minister Vara has resigned. First of many?

Surely the latest of many I've lost count of how many have resigned already from Mrs Mays team

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Mass ministerial on the cards today then

 

[bha100]

Raab gone

 

[studio150]

Raab now resigned

 

[nicko31]

GBP tanking....

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Shailesh Vara, the Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office, has resigned over the draft Brexit deal.' - BBC

 

[ManOfSussex]

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What I don't get is that surely Rabb will have been privy to this text all along and only took the role on once May's Chequers plan was in the open.

Presumably he couldn't support Chequers, knew he couldn't support what has been decided long ago, but only resigns now.

Seems he has been playing a game

 

[neilbard]

"We're in the Brexs*it" After years of trying the Sun finally crack it.

 

[ManOfSussex]

What I don't get is that surely Rabb will have been privy to this text all along and only took the role on once May's Chequers plan was in the open.

Presumably he couldn't support Chequers, knew he couldn't support what has been decided long ago, but only resigns now.

Seems he has been playing a game

This sums him up quite succinctly.

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[Stat Brother]

Raab now being tipped as keen to mount a leadership challenge, begging the question:-

'what the fook is wrong with the man?'


'Hey you there want to take over from me as captain of this fine vessel'.
'Really sir, mid voyage?'
'Oh yes you are clearly the right man for the job'.
'Wow I'm actually captain of THE Titanic'.

 

[Ernest]

Raab resigns over a deal he negotiated, more like running away from it. Wasn’t my idea guv

 

[WATFORD zero]

What I don't get is that surely Rabb will have been privy to this text all along and only took the role on once May's Chequers plan was in the open.

Presumably he couldn't support Chequers, knew he couldn't support what has been decided long ago, but only resigns now.

Seems he has been playing a game

Playing political games while the country sinks deeper into the shit ?

Surely not, there's certainly no history of that with Brexit

 

[ManOfSussex]

Raab now being tipped as keen to mount a leadership challenge

It was reported during his stint at DExEU that he was briefing Rees-Mogg on proceedings all the while. He might be The ERG's 'star' candidate.