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andrewducker- Listen and weep: Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement
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- How bad could Brexit be, really?
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- Famous gorilla Koko who could do sign language has died at the age of 46
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- Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation - For Now.
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- First physiological test for autism has 88% accuracy in second trial
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- The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge
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- Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant
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- Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. government "shelters"
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- Roseanne officially going on without the titular character
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- Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could see it leave UK - taking 14,000 jobs with it
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- Guys, guys, I found the very definition of entitlement
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- Edinburgh trams profits more than £1m above forecast
- Considering that it's only half of the line, I'm amazed it's making a profit at all.
(tags: trams edinburgh ) - Investigating The Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA
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- Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020
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- Eurozone agrees deal to bring Greece out of financial crisis
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- Psychiatric disorders share an underlying genetic basis
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- A mechanism behind choosing alcohol over healthy rewards is found (in rats, but probably also humans)
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- Turns out Stephen King is responsible for Donald Trump
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- The great irony of Brexit is that it is teaching the UK that it already had the best model: EU membership
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- The three legal ways by which Brexit may not take place on 29 March 2019
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The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge
Date: 2018-06-22 11:20 am (UTC)I just doubt this. I think remainer Tories aren't failing to rebel against May because they're just useless, they're doing it because they're afraid they'll end up with a Davis government, who'll rip up deals and force a no-deal Brexit, whereas Theresa May is very likely to make some sort of a deal, because she's neither crazy, treasonously self-interested nor incredibly stupid*.
*She _is_ racist, bigoted, pretty hard-right and hateful, but alarmingly she's currently looking like one of the more palatable members of the Tory party.
Re: The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge
Date: 2018-06-22 11:23 am (UTC)Re: The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge
Date: 2018-06-22 01:22 pm (UTC)About 50 Tory MP's need to ask for a confidence vote on the Leader. They then need 50%+1 of the current Tory MP's to vote for them. If they get that they survive. If they don't there is a leadership contest.
It's possible that May would not win a confidence vote. Davis (or whomever) will have won an election of Tory MP's and possibly an election of Tory members. It's unlikely that they would lose a vote of confidence shortly after winning the leadership.
So any Tory rebels would have to vote with the opposition parties to no confidence the government - and risk being expelled from the party and a general election. That's not impossible but it's less likely than May being removed.