Brexit: What next?
Dec. 10th, 2018 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, the vote is off. Which means it can't be amended.
When does May bring forward the vote - which needs to be passed for the deal to take hold?
If I was in her shoes, and I _really_ wanted the vote to pass, I'd schedule it in for March 28th, the day before Brexit day. Basically saying "You either vote this through or it's No Deal".
But if she does that, how long until enough of the DUP and her own party decide that this is so self-destructive that it's worth a vote of confidence?
(I'm not sure what she thinks she's going to get from the EU which will make people happier about the backstop.)
When does May bring forward the vote - which needs to be passed for the deal to take hold?
If I was in her shoes, and I _really_ wanted the vote to pass, I'd schedule it in for March 28th, the day before Brexit day. Basically saying "You either vote this through or it's No Deal".
But if she does that, how long until enough of the DUP and her own party decide that this is so self-destructive that it's worth a vote of confidence?
(I'm not sure what she thinks she's going to get from the EU which will make people happier about the backstop.)
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Date: 2018-12-10 10:04 pm (UTC)Not had one from the Lords in over a century, but theoretically still possible.
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Date: 2018-12-11 06:36 am (UTC)There's nothing written down anywhere about how things like this are done, it's just done the way things have always been done until a change is needed and other things can be done then. Yay for an unwritten Constitution!
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Date: 2018-12-11 07:52 am (UTC)But, as you say, if it was expedient and widely agreed that a new convention should be established then we could do that. Many things are up in the air at the moment, but I am confident that changing this principle is not one of them.
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