No deal
Express
STEVE BAKER MP has argued how the no deal Brexit bill could be of ‘no use whatsoever’ following House of Lords scrutiny. The ERG member was questioned on the motion which passed by just one vote in the Commons Wednesday night. He told Sky News: “What I hope happens now in the House of Lords where there is not a guillotine on the time, will examine this bill properly like they usually do because they certainly gave me a runaround with the EU withdrawal bill. “I hope the Lords will give it the level of scrutiny which this house hasn’t given. If they do that it will be up for several days and it will probably be of no use whatsoever as the Prime Minister approaches this emergency council.”
Mail
MPs were warned they may have made an ‘accidental No Deal’ more likely after they demanded a further Brexit delay last night. The Commons hurried through a bill, which passed by just one vote, forcing the Prime Minister to seek an extension if she cannot agree a deal with Jeremy Corbyn. The backbench bill was meant to prevent a No Deal Brexit on April 12, but Brexit minister Robin Walker warned it could have the opposite effect
Telegraph
Every English and Welsh region outside the M25 is happy to leave the European Union without a deal if no agreement can be reached by the end of next week. The study by YouGov asked voters “if Britain has not agreed a deal by April 12th, what do you think should happen?”. The research found that only people living in London did not want to leave without a deal. In London 48 per cent of voters agreed that “Britain should withdraw our application to leave and remain in the EU” against 26pc who backed leaving without a deal.
Sun
BRITS who live outside of the M25 are happy to leave the EU without a deal – while those inside believe Britain should remain. A YouGov poll showed that every region in England and Wales outside of the M25 are happy with a no-deal Brexit. The research found that almost half of Londoners think that Britain should revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. It asked voters “if Britain has not agreed a deal by April 12th, what do you think should happen?”.
Art50 extension
Sky News
MPs have narrowly approved a bill which compels Theresa May to seek a further extension on Article 50 to prevent a no-deal Brexit on 12 April. The bill, laid by Labour’s Yvette Cooper, requires the government to bring a legally binding vote to the Commons, seeking an extension to Article 50, where MPs will be able to determine the length of the extension. 313 MPs voted for the bill, and 312 voted against – a majority of one.
Breitbart
Members of Parliament have voted to pass a Bill that will force Prime Minister Theresa May to seek an extension of Article 50 and stop a no deal by one vote. The Cooper/Letwin EU (Withdrawal) (No5) Bill was passed 313 to 312 at 11:30 Wednesday night, and could progress to the House of Lords as early as Thursday, potentially becoming law by next week. If passed into law, it would force Prime Minister May to choose a date to which to extend Article 50 and then ask Commons MPs to agree to it, the measures meant to stop the UK leaving without a deal in a clean break, which is the legal default should a UK-EU withdrawal agreement not be agreed by April 12th.
Sun
MPS humiliated Theresa May last night by forcing her to delay Brexit again – but were warned their move could have made a No Deal outcome MORE likely. Following a set of knife-edge clashes, the Commons opted by 313 votes to 312 to push through a controversial power grab bill drawn up by Remainer rebels. As control of Brexit slipped further away from Mrs May, MPs now have the power to force her to go back to the EU and seek another delay to Brexit so there’s time to sort out her mess.
Independent
A cross-party bid to block a no-deal Brexit has cleared the Commons after Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn met for last-ditch talks to break the deadlock. In a series of late-night votes, MPs backed the bill, tabled by Labour’s Yvette Cooper, which was rushed through in a single day to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal next Friday.
Mirror
MPs have voted to force Theresa May to seek an extension to Article 50 and prevent a no-deal Brexit by just one vote. A bill, tabled by Labour ’s Yvette Cooper, requires the Prime Minister to come to the Commons with a plan for the extension – including for its length. And it would allow MPs to amend and vote on it in a way that is binding on the government. It comes at the end of an extraordinary day of voting, which saw the Commons agree by just one vote to allow the bill to progress through all of its Commons stages tonight.
Customs union
BBC News
It is an “article of faith” that the UK must leave the EU to honour the referendum result, Geoffrey Cox says. The attorney general told the BBC a customs union was “not desirable” but if that was the only way of leaving the EU, he would take it. He suggested the government’s only option was to “seek with Labour some common ground” for a “swift exit”.
BBC News
The DUP has held out the prospect of supporting a customs union as talks continue between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn to break the Brexit deadlock. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson made the suggestion to BBC News NI on Wednesday evening. It came as the Tory and Labour leaders agreed a “programme of work” to try to find a way forward to put to MPs.
Westmonster
The Democratic Unionist Party have given Theresa May both barrels for her decision to seek a Brexit stitch-up with Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, describing her personal performance as “lamentable” and questioning the decision to be “subcontracting out the future of Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn”. In a statement put out last night, the DUP have said: “The Prime Minister’s lamentable handling of the negotiations with the EU means she has failed to deliver a sensible Brexit deal that works for all parts of the United Kingdom.
EU
Telegraph
Jean-Claude Juncker has attacked supporters of a no deal Brexit and warned British MPs they must ratify Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement by next Friday to avoid a long delay to Britain leaving the EU. The president of the European Commission said that no deal on April 12 was “now a very likely scenario”. He warned there was no such thing as a “managed no deal” and that the EU would insist Britain paid the £39 billion Brexit bill and guarantee no hard Irish border even if the UK crashed out.
Mail
Jean-Claude Juncker threw Theresa May a lifeline today as he said Britain could still leave the EU on May 22 without holding EU elections if she passes the deal next week. The EU Commission President said Mrs May’s new strategy would work if her decision to accept cross party talks and pivot to soft Brexit pays off. The PM is meeting Jeremy Corbyn this afternoon in a desperate final scramble to get her battered divorce deal over the line.
Express
THE UK’s divorce from the European Union was always going to hurt, and leaving the bloc would always involve difficult conversations, France’s junior minister for Europe, Jean-Baptise Lemoyne, said. Mr Lemoyne said in an interview with Europe 1 radio: “Such a divorce is never painless. “It will always come with a significant impact. But the impact will be greater for our British friends than for the French and the Europeans.
Independent
The EU would refuse to open trade talks with Britain after a no-deal Brexit until the UK decided to sign up to the main elements of the withdrawal agreement anyway, the European Commission has said. Speaking in the European parliament on Wednesday, Jean-Claude Juncker said the Irish border, citizens’ rights and the divorce bill would need to be agreed before any other negotiations could begin.
Times
Britain will be unable to block any increase in its payments to the EU in the event of a long extension to the Brexit negotiations. At a summit next week EU leaders will offer Theresa May a choice between a no-deal Brexit and a long Article 50 extension unless the withdrawal treaty is ratified by April 12. A long extension, until January 1 2020 or as late as the following year, will come with conditions including guarantees that Britain will not use its EU voting weight to block key decisions.
Guardian
Theresa May’s appeal for a short Brexit extension has been rejected by Jean-Claude Juncker, who said that unless the withdrawal deal was passed within nine days the UK would crash out of the EU or have to sign up to a long delay. Less than 24 hours after May had spelled out her new strategy from Downing Street, the European commission president dismissed her request for an extension of article 50 to 22 May.
Westmonster
EU Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker has today warned that he believes a No Deal Brexit is increasingly likely and that there will be no further short Article 50 extension offered unless Theresa May’s deal is backed by MPs, with a deadline of 12th April. “European Council has given all necessary time and space to the UK to take its decision.
Second referendum
Times
Jeremy Corbyn was told by one of his closest allies yesterday that any Brexit compromise he strikes with Theresa May must include a referendum. The Labour leader provoked discomfort at all levels of his party after appearing not to make a fresh vote a condition of any agreement with the prime minister. Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, wrote to every Labour MP, however, setting out why the party must back a referendum.
Independent
Philip Hammond has said there is a “perfectly credible” case for giving the British people a Final Say on Brexit. The chancellor suggested although he was unsure there was currently a majority in parliament to allow for a second public vote to be facilitated, it “deserved to be tested”. Asked on ITV’s Peston programme about negotiations between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock in Parliament, Mr Hammond refused to be drawn on details of the talks.
ITV News
The Chancellor has said there is a “credible case” for a referendum on any Brexit deal, and that it deserves to be tested in Parliament. Speaking on ITV’s Peston, Philip Hammond also said a long delay to Brexit is likely since the Government will do everything “in our power” to prevent no-deal, but once a deal is passed, the UK should be able to leave the EU, rather than wait until any agreed end-date.
Mail
Labour was split over Brexit last night after Emily Thornberry contradicted her leader by demanding a second referendum on any deal. Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman said yesterday that while he had called for a public vote on Theresa May’s deal, he would not countenance one on any deal he put his name to. The Labour leader yesterday held talks with the Prime Minister to thrash out a jointly agreed deal to put to Parliament.
Conservative Party
Times
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were both facing a furious backlash from their parties last night amid growing scepticism over the prospects of their talks finding a way through Brexit. No 10 and Labour claimed initially that the leaders had had a “constructive” meeting after they spent an hour and 40 minutes in the Commons working through options. They agreed to set up a working party to meet today.
Mail
Jeremy Corbyn demanded ‘a customs union with the EU’ in his face-to-face Brexit showdown with Theresa May, he revealed tonight as Tory anger over the meeting threatened to explode into civil war. The hard-Left Labour leader pronounced his first Brexit discussions with Mrs May ‘useful but inconclusive’, and complained that there ‘hasn’t been as much change as I expected’. He confirmed he raised the idea of a second referendum and said technical talks on finding an end to the Brexit impasse would continue on Thursday morning.
Reuters
Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May had not moved far enough in a first round of crisis talks aimed at breaking the domestic deadlock over Britain’s exit from the European Union. The United Kingdom was supposed to leave the EU last Friday but, nearly three years after it voted by 52 percent to 48 for Brexit in a referendum, it is still unclear how, when or even whether it will quit the bloc it joined in 1973.
Mail
Theresa May faced the wrath of the Tory party yesterday as two ministers quit, rebel MPs launched a bid to oust her and furious activists tore up their membership cards after she opened Brexit talks with Jeremy Corbyn. Plotters on the backbench 1922 Committee tried to organise a secret vote of no confidence in the PM at a stormy meeting last night.
Telegraph
Blue-on-blue infighting spilled out of Westminster and into the Tory shires on Wednesday as calls for the Prime Minister’s resignation intensified following her bombshell Brexit u-turn. Having been expected to back no deal following Tuesday’s marathon seven hour cabinet meeting, Theresa May incurred the wrath of her MPs and Tory voters by opting instead to extend Article 50 while seeking a customs union compromise with Jeremy Corbyn.
Mirror
Tory hardliners have declared “open season” as they launched fresh bid to oust Theresa May . Angry MPs gathered at the backbench 1922 Committee to vent their anger at the Prime Minister. One MP claimed up to two-thirds of the party’s Parliamentarians were ready to vote no-confidence in the PM’s leadership of a vote was possible. Party rules state MPs must wait 12 months between attempts to oust the leader in a no confidence vote.
Times
Theresa May was hit by two more resignations from her government yesterday as grassroots Tories expressed their anger at talks with Labour by cutting up their membership cards. Chris Heaton-Harris, a Brexit minister, and Nigel Adams, a Welsh Office minister and whip, quit over the prime minister’s change of tack. The backlash grew with Eurosceptics threatening again to submit letters of no confidence in Mrs May as their party leader.
Independent
Furious Conservative Party members are cutting up their membership cards after Theresa May asked Jeremy Corbyn to help her secure a Brexit deal that can get through Parliament. Downing Street has hinted it wants an agreement with the Labour leader nailed down by the end of the week, in order to meet the EU’s deadline for agreeing a further extension to Article 50 at a summit next week.
Westmonster
Grassroot, pro-Brexit Conservatives have reacted furiously to Theresa May’s plot to cook-up a Brexit stitch-up with Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, cutting up membership cards and not being shy of telling the world about it either. Essex businessman Adam Brooks was one of the first, tweeting: “That’s me finally done.. I couldn’t now care less about voting for the next leader. Jeremy Corbyn has no right to be involved after his behaviour over the last two years.”
Express
BORIS Johnson’s hopes of becoming Prime Minister could receive a massive boost if Tory party bosses agree to proposals on reforming the current leadership contest rules. Changes suggested by MP and former solder Johnny Mercer would see MPs pick four candidates instead of two to go up for election by Conservative members across the country. This would give Mr Johnson a much better chance of getting on the list and beat the “Anyone But Boris” campaign being waged by his Commons enemies to stop him getting enough MPs’ votes to make the final two.
Legal action
Mail
A former appeal judge has said the legality of Theresa May‘s delay to Brexit should be tested in a court. Sir Richard Aikens, who sat in the Court of Appeal from 2008 until 2015, spoke after the leader of the English Democrats political party launched a legal battle claiming that the UK has already left the EU. Britain was supposed to leave on March 29, but was granted an extension by the EU until April 12 at a meeting last in Brussels last month.
Express
A LEGAL battle claiming Britain has already left the European Union has been launched in the High Court by the leader of the English Democrats. Robin Tilbrook insists Britain left the bloc on March 29 as originally planned and dismissed Theresa May’s extension as nul and void because she never had the power to make such a decision in the first place. The legal challenge mirrors Gina Miller’s high-profile court battle with the Government over Article 50 in 2016.
Prisons
Guardian
Offenders should no longer be given sentences of under a year to ease the “enduring” prison safety crisis in England Wales, MPs have said in a damning report. The justice secretary, David Gauke, is already looking at the possibility of scrapping jail terms of six months or less, with exceptions made for violent and sexual offences. The move is backed in a report from the justice select committee, chaired by the Conservative MP Bob Neill.
Alzheimers
Telegraph
Alzheimer’s disease probably affects twice as many people as current estimates suggest but sufferers are yet to show symptoms, experts believe. Scientists at The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota have been reevaluating the prevalence of the disease using brain imaging to give a definitive answer as to how many people are actually affected. In Britain it is thought around 850,000 people have the disease, but most are diagnosed through clinical assessments when they are already showing symptoms.
Age discrimination
Telegraph
Age discrimination is rife in Britain according to a new UCL study which shows that one in four over 50s report being unfairly treated in shops, restaurants and hospitals. Ageism also appeared to be linked to poorer health among those it affected, the study shows, with reported victims of age discrimination more likely to suffer health problems, or develop them over time.
Greater London is the only area of the United Kingdom that would vote to remain.
Greater London is only 40% nativie British.
Something that seems to have been completely overlooked in the press is the Newport By Election.
The interesting thing for me is that there will be 4 candidates standing in the By Election, who people who support Brexit could conceivably vote for.
UKIP, ForBritain, SDP & Vets & Democrats. In fact i think all of these 4 parties candidates have at one time or another been members of UKIP.
It will be very interesting to see the outcome of the voting and i have a suspicion that if the votes cast for these 4 parties were added together they would probably have won the election or been quite close.
Please rearrange these words into whichever order you see fit:
Shot, foot, in, themselves & the!
-“The EU would refuse to open trade talks with Britain after a no-deal Brexit until the UK decided to sign up to the main elements of the withdrawal agreement anyway, the European Commission has said. Speaking in the European parliament on Wednesday, Jean-Claude Juncker said the Irish border, citizens’ rights and the divorce bill would need to be agreed before any other negotiations could begin.”
Fine, if that’s what they want, that’s how we’ll play it. We import far more from the EU than we do export to them.
This has been the problem with the UK’s negotiating ‘strategy’, we gave away all our best bargaining positions at the start.
We should have just left with ‘no-deal’, invoked that Article 24 of the WTO’s GATT, and offered zero-tariffs on imports from the EU, as long as the EU reciprocated. The EU clearly doesn’t want to reciprocate in our current position – though they may soon change their minds if we did actually get a ‘clean Brexit’. So basically, we should tell them to “go f**k themselves’ (perhaps a bit more politely of course!)
-“the Irish border”
There is ALREADY a border between the Repulic of and Northern Ireland. British and Irish authorities have repeatedly stated there does not need to be any ‘hard border’. If the EU insists on one, they will have to put one up and then make themselves very unpopular.
-“citizens rights”
The British Government has already agreed to protect EU citizens rights, and there is already underway a massive advertising campaign encouraging EU/EEA citizens to apply for ‘settlement’ in the UK. If the EU refuses to do the same, they will end up making themselves very unpopular. But also, what does citizens rights have to do with any kind of trade deal? The EU has a free trade deal with Vietnam, so that workers paid pennies can mass-produce clothing and other items for EU corporations ‘on-the-cheap’ and then import them tariff-free. Hardly makes the EU ‘paragons of virtue’ when it comes to citizens rights then?
-‘divorce bill’
This has always been in question. As far as I’m concerned, as long as we have paid our ‘membership fee’ for the last two years, that is all they should get from us. Deduct what they claim we ‘owe’ them, from all the assets within the EU that we have paid for or contributed towards, plus the numerous investments in the ECB etc, I’m pretty sure it will be the EU that owes us money.
We are not getting ‘ No Deal ‘.
Do we really not realise. We are not going to get it.
Her WA is no change! Get it through peoples heads.. WE ARE NOT GETTING ANYTHING
This is Mrs may. Really we are not going to get it It’s her speciality, Not doing things, Every day that passes she sees as another victory for her. Another for people to forget ( And they will ).
We will be getting,, just to remind us all of our luck and joy.
Freedom of movement
More immigration.
HS2
ECJ ( European Court of Justice )
UCHR ( Universal Court of Human Rights.)
European Army Navy and Airforce
European Police
Euriopean Museum
Library
Chamber of Commerce
Womens Institute,
Church ( If we’re lucky )
Legion
Region house of Devolved Westminster.
Macrons column
Random thoughts Debbie .
Could we give more coverage to other EU countries. My only source is ‘The Week @, and travelling friends, and I’m only 15 % competent with phones or computers .( All youngsters think i’m stupid, but it’s a choice made in the 1950’s and has served me well .I recommend a stand alone and Recorse. Anyway Alice Vidal ‘s speech was stunning. Use Farage or GB to help…
Also Battens speech although a bit dull except for the last 20 secs was undeniably sincere and thoughtful.
There seem to be no countrywide organisations not corrupted or controlled by remainers. Even the federation of small businesses who i’m told were massively brexit but the committee that runs it isn’t But just from members. ..
It seems now that brexit asa focus for ukip has almost disappeared to be replaced by the hope of becoming a political party. There’s nothing wrong with taking a long view. And it’s certainly a good spoiling strategy in the present situation. But Opportunities are everywhere and our branches are melting away for lack of oxygen
And stop moaning about TR the damage has been done. Watch Galloway with Jo somebody ( BBC clone ) to cheer you up instead and work out how it’s a long term advantage perhaps. Ithink it’s there and GB and TR have seen it.
The quickest, surest, and best route to becoming a political party is to to create ownership of selected protests whuich we know are going eventually to succeed And right now the list is huge We need to grab them before the others do. We could have done it with the police , but that’s gone now.
All these thoughts should have been important to any CEO or MD. and have been considerd with implications along with others. Who, what etc.
Re other EU countries have you tried Voice of Europe?
https://voiceofeurope.com/
It’s unverified but most/all of what it says rings true,
Mary.
Many thanks
To lose one executive officer of your fledgling party may be regarded as misfortune. Two, however, smacks of carelessness:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/03/brexit-party-official-removed-after-antisemitic-posts
Sponplague,
The best thing about these thing is the absurdity. Do they think people never learn, or never change their mind. Are we all permanently all knowledgeable. In the labour party it may be normal and the transgressors may be 20 year old girl children who just don’t know .It is all rather ridiculous. But I suppose it provides work where they would probably otherwise be in the gutter.I feel it another sign of faulty education and lack of experience.
A West Midlands man, a Kentish man, a Cumbrian and a Horse went into a bar,,,,,,,,,,
Importance of majorities ::– One extra dodgy vote in the ‘commons’ vs one million commoners.
Customs union:
It is a source of amazement to me that a CU can in any way be considered leaving the EU. May and her supporters have tried every possible way of keeping us subject to EU control. No wonder Blair watered down the law on treason and sedition.
I’m afraid Blair is going to have to fight his way through the pearly gates.
Its funny how they use innocuous sounding names like Customs Union instead of calling it what is: a straitjacket with all sorts of strings attached, unnecessarily enforcing free movement as a necessary requirement , making us subject to EU laws and ECJ etc, a tentacle sucking us into a totalitarian state and military . Everything connected in this spiders web.
Similarly with the term “soft brexit” which means not only not- brexit -at- all but far worse.
And the term “Joint Committee” to describe the secret totaltarian politburo which will bleed Britain white to its hearts content for generations to come. The only British parties to this “joint” committee will no doubt be traitors like May.( May’s next job?)