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MPs vote to NOT extend the no-deal Brexit deadline.

We Brits prefer to shoot ourselves in the head than to kill ourselves slowly with poison. 🤷



https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/29/labour-mps-rebel-vote-down-yvette-cooper-no-deal-amendment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard
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MartinII · 70-79, M
A surprising triumph for the much-maligned Mrs May, I think.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
it's Pyrrhic victory if ever there was one.
MartinII · 70-79, M
@Burnley123 Not if she actually delivers Brexit!
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@MartinII Her deal is the only deal she can deliver and she can't deliver it. This vote makes a no deal Brexit much more likely.
Nyloncapes · 61-69, M
The eu has made it clear time and time again , there is no way changing deal, even tonight they said it, then later tusk comes out with we might be able to sort something out if we get softer brexit what a joke
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Nyloncapes Its not a negotiating victory though. If she keeps ending freedom of movement as a red line then this is the best deal she can get.
MartinII · 70-79, M
@Burnley123 I don’t agree with you, I think it opens the way to the possibility of a revised deal getting through Parliament. Of course I would be delighted if you were right.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@MartinII I actually want you to be right. I need to buy some Brexiteer fantasy juice. 😜
Nyloncapes · 61-69, M
No way can she give in on freedom of movement, she just got to go back get a spine tell them firmly you wanted to know what might get this deal through sort backstop out , if you really want a deal like you keep saying sort it balls in your court now and walk out
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Nyloncapes I think the analogy I used works. It takes balls to shoot yourself in the head.
Nyloncapes · 61-69, M
@Burnley123 do you honestly think this country could not survive out of the eu , think we are made of bit sterner stuff then people think
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Nyloncapes Yeah we'll survive. Some Brexit peopke use the blitz as a metaphor but we wouldn't vote for the blitz.
Nyloncapes · 61-69, M
@Burnley123 eu is finished run by arrogant people who wont listen to anybody else, yes no one wanted the blitz but got over that and got strong , and leaving eu can not even come close or to compare to the blitz,