The Moggcast. Deal-or-No-Brexit “becomes the choice eventually…May’s deal is better than not leaving at all”
Rees-Mogg details how the deal is “definitely not” worse than Remain. And: why the Letwin plan is constitutionally “absurd”.
Rees-Mogg details how the deal is “definitely not” worse than Remain. And: why the Letwin plan is constitutionally “absurd”.
Whatever happens, we will need new leadership for the second stage of any agreement – namely, talks on the Political Declaration.
It really is something when a significant part of the EU leadership joins the list of agnostics. No wonder there is nervousness in Dublin.
She yesterday achieved the outcome most likely to prop her up – at least for the time being. But Cooper, Letwin and Bercow are waiting in the wings.
The Speaker offers a distillation of his signature style.
The Prime Minister seemed to imply that if MPs will not bend to her will, she is off.
“We should look again at being able to leave with a negotiated deal, but in order to do that we need time…”
Even worse is the politicisation of the Speaker’s Chair. The impartiality of Britain’s Speaker was, like the impartiality of its monarch, a given.
There’s little that Conservative MPs can do to stop the Speaker – they don’t have the votes to depose him.
“It’s a very impressive hat that you are wearing, or a hat of sorts. Very well done.”
Critics of the deal need to compromise and accept the actual choices on offer. Refusal to do so risks an outcome far worse, or no Brexit at all.
The crude effect of his ruling, crafted and sprung on a hapless Downing Street, is to make a third meaningful vote unlikely this week, and perhaps next week too.
“This ruling should not be regarded as my last word on the subject,” Bercow added.
A dedicated band of Conservative pro-Brexit holdouts stands ready to perish rather than let May’s deal pass.
I expected a Leave victory to be a profound shock and challenge to politicians. They have struggled to adapt even more than I anticipated.