Posted: Oct 20, 2019 2:24 pm
He held the Saturday session to avoid triggering the Benn act. There wasn't really a lot more to it than that.
He failed though, because, you know, He's Boris.
I would assume that the MPs that would vote for it would do so on the basis they trusted that it would then follow the Withdrawal Agreement would get through with that deal (and if faced with a rebellion of a few Tory idiots like Mark Francois forcing that choice to be between Boris's deal and no deal then Lib Dem or Labour MPs could always vote the WA through - it's only really the prospect of deceit by Boris in bringing the legislation that would worry them) and we'd leave the EU as "decided" in the referendum whilst avoiding the looming perceived disaster of no deal.
Obviously MPs are split on whether further extension is a good idea. Doesn't really matter now, it happened anyway.
He failed though, because, you know, He's Boris.
I would assume that the MPs that would vote for it would do so on the basis they trusted that it would then follow the Withdrawal Agreement would get through with that deal (and if faced with a rebellion of a few Tory idiots like Mark Francois forcing that choice to be between Boris's deal and no deal then Lib Dem or Labour MPs could always vote the WA through - it's only really the prospect of deceit by Boris in bringing the legislation that would worry them) and we'd leave the EU as "decided" in the referendum whilst avoiding the looming perceived disaster of no deal.
Obviously MPs are split on whether further extension is a good idea. Doesn't really matter now, it happened anyway.