Has anyone read much on the developing story of May and Juncker agreeing a new backstop arrangement suspiciously close to the second vote? I'm finding it hard to work out if its a worthwhile change or just posturing that won't actually affect tomorrows voting
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The only thing it changes is an amendment that if an arbitration panel rules that the EU acts to have the backstop in place indefinitely, an arbitration panel would allow Britain for “a unilateral and proportionate suspension” of their customs union but in a way that would not endanger the open Irish border.
So it doesn't actually change anything other than some fluffy language. MPs changing their mind now would be massively hypocritical.
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That's what I was thinking. For the UK to argue the EU was forcing us to be in the backstop indefinitely we'd have to be in it for 15 years or so without an end in sight.
Plus, any room to argue exiting the backstop means there is no proper backstop. Basically, if Ireland is okay with it then it means nothing has changed and MP's will vote against it but it Ireland objects then it means the EU has bent them over at the last minute which means MPs will vote against it. It's all so fuddled in its delivery that it doesn't come across that clear though.
I know the EU has said extending Article 50 is a two option thing though. Either we set a pointless deadline or 23 May or we have to join the EU Elections which I'm unsure of why that's a particularly big deal for the UK assuming we're leaving at some point after unless they're implying that if we have to do the elections we need to be eyeing up cancelling Brexit.
Statement from Donald Tusk’s spokesman comes after Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffers second heavy defeat
Labour and Corbyn have already called, for a second time, for MP's to vote down the deal
ITV's political editor has predicted that May's Deal 2.0 (or should that be 1.1) will be voted down by a large majority later today again
So, this (and this seems to often be the case) could be May's final judgment depending on how things unfold today
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Statement from Donald Tusk’s spokesman comes after Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffers second heavy defeat
Cox has delivered his legal review of the changes and formally confirmed that the changes do not fundamentally change the backstop situation from the last meaningful vote. In other words, he's just delivered the final kiss of death to May's deal.
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