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andrewducker) wrote2019-01-17 11:03 am
andrewducker) wrote2019-01-17 11:03 am
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2019
- Young Trans Children Know Who They Are
- (tags: lgbt transgender children )
- Jeremy Corbyn snubs Theresa May offer to work together on Brexit unless PM rules out no-deal
- Of course, no detail on how to rule out No Deal when it's what happens automatically if nothing else is agreed...
(tags: UK europe labour ) - A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent
- (tags: usa tax )
- Hundreds of homeless people fined and imprisoned in England and Wales
- (tags: England homelessness OhForFucksSake )
- The BBC's article on the Gillette advert is *terrible*
- (tags: BBC journalism twitter OhForFucksSake )
- The Scottish government isn't funding autism support which actively saves money
- (tags: NHS autism scotland OhForFucksSake )
- Isle Of Man Is Now The First Place In The British Isles To Decriminalise Abortion
- (tags: abortion GoodNews )
- How Do People Communicate Before Death?
- (tags: death language viaSwampers )
- Hitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in Wales
- (tags: nuclearpower uk Wales doom )
- A question of interest: Is UK household debt unsustainable?
- (tags: UK debt economics )
- This is an excellent summary of the current Brexit situation and our options
- (tags: UK europe )
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I agree that they could bind themselves to avoid No Deal if they wanted to.
But that means passing legislation to say "If we get to 5 minutes to midnight on Brexit Day-1 then X."
Where X is either "Enact Withdrawal Agreement" or "Revoke Article 50"
So that means that the parliament needs to agree which of those two choices it will bind itself to. The one which just got the largest single government defeat in history, or the one which neither party is willing to admit is an option.
If Corbyn is suggesting either of these, then great. But he needs to say what he is suggesting, not just "I don't like this option, make the bad thing go away."
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They probably ought to couch the legislation in terms of (If by T-t hours, WA has not been agreed than X) but legislation that said "the UK may not leave the EU with a deal" would be valid legislation. It would end up being litigated to buggery and back, probably more than once.
Probably after Brexit Day.
However what passes for statesmanship this century is to pass ill-thought out legislation that triggers litigation and a constitutional crisis. There may be a majority in the House for the No No Deal But No Alternative Act.
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Which doesn't make him a statesman or even a decent candidate for PM, but no greater love hath a man than that he lay down his ambition for his party.
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But I'd like to not be living in an apocalyptic disaster zone come April, and therefore would like him to take that into account when making his decisions.
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