mmmm, maybe not. When he could force an election, the temptation could be too great.

Will depend then on how vicious the Tory whips are, and how principled Grieve and his crew are.

Posted By: Higher Wrather on December 13th 2017 at 21:01:13

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May should have seen that coming, Parliament to get a meaningful votre. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 13, 19:16:29
- How important would the vote have to be (General Chat) - Bryan Salad Surgery, Dec 13, 21:26:12
- The weakest government in my lifetime. (General Chat) - avenging canary, Dec 13, 20:42:17
  - And all their own doing (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Dec 13, 20:52:08
- This is good (n/m) (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Dec 13, 20:12:32
  - Corbyn will still make sure Brexit happens (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 13, 20:35:39
    - mmmm, maybe not. When he could force an election, the temptation could be too great. (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Dec 13, 21:01:13
      - he couldn't force an election, the tories' self-preservation would kick in (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 13, 22:07:07
    - Oh yes, don't doubt that, but he'll have to be a bit more careful now... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Dec 13, 20:45:32
- Gets more and more shambolic (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Dec 13, 19:43:29
  - Nothing shambolic about parliamentary sovereignty imo (General Chat) - SCC 28, Dec 13, 19:50:14
    - I think Brexit will be more shambolic. There's no clear majority in Parliament for (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Dec 13, 20:01:40
    - Shambolic for May et al though (General Chat) - Jacksons_Twelfth, Dec 13, 19:53:16
      - Yep 😀 (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Dec 13, 19:54:40
- this means 'no deal' is far more likely. (General Chat) - shoddy, Dec 13, 19:37:43
  - No deal now means soft brexit cos the UK has now agreed with the EU that (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Dec 13, 20:55:22
    - Davis is too thick to know what he has agreed to (General Chat) - CWC, Dec 13, 22:16:07
  - LOL (General Chat) - SCC 28, Dec 13, 19:49:00
  - Other way around isn't it? (General Chat) - Jim, Dec 13, 19:48:08
    - my point is that if it is too soft, the labour front bench wont like it. (General Chat) - shoddy, Dec 13, 20:03:02
- Parliament taking back control lovely stuff (General Chat) - SCC 28, Dec 13, 19:34:00
- I once had what I thought was a meaningful votre, bled me dry in the end. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Dec 13, 19:19:13
  - Close one, quatre. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 13, 19:24:23
- *vote (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 13, 19:16:42
  - Even as a 'Brexiteer', I don't see this as a bad thing. (General Chat) - Jacksons_Twelfth, Dec 13, 19:33:43
    - The issue though of course is what happens if parliament turns it down (General Chat) - Jim, Dec 13, 19:49:31
      - The Govt would surely fall. Final vote will now be seen as a vote of confidence. (General Chat) - Dracula, Dec 13, 19:54:55
        
        I'd tend to agree with that (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Dec 13, 20:27:01
      - Yes, as Shoddy says it does make no deal more likely. (General Chat) - Jacksons_Twelfth, Dec 13, 19:52:01

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