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Recursion

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Sun Feb 24, 2019, 09:59 AM Feb 2019

Theresa May postpones meaningful vote on final Brexit deal

Source: The Guardian

MPs may have to wait until 12 March for a meaningful vote on the government’s final Brexit deal, Theresa May has said, in an intervention which will deepen splits in her cabinet.

The prime minister confirmed on Sunday that she would not hold the crucial vote this week as she flew to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, where she is due to discuss Brexit on the margins of an EU summit with Arab leaders.

It comes in a critical week for May, when many in the House of Commons had been expecting to vote on her deal.

Without a reworked withdrawal agreement to bring back to MPs, the prime minister has promised to table an amendable motion – which will allow backbenchers another chance to try to block a no-deal Brexit.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/24/theresa-may-postpones-meaningful-vote-on-final-brexit-deal



Ever seen the fourth quarter of a football game where one team clearly wants to run out the clock?
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Theresa May postpones meaningful vote on final Brexit deal (Original Post) Recursion Feb 2019 OP
I do not understand why current majority of those opposed cannot get a vote blm Feb 2019 #1
Not to mention that the vote was not binding as well as the fact that it was a slim majority cstanleytech Feb 2019 #2
+++ agree. Let the ppl speak iluvtennis Feb 2019 #3

blm

(113,136 posts)
1. I do not understand why current majority of those opposed cannot get a vote
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 11:36 AM
Feb 2019

To stop Brexit when it was clearly the result of a Russian plot.

cstanleytech

(26,364 posts)
2. Not to mention that the vote was not binding as well as the fact that it was a slim majority
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 01:28 PM
Feb 2019

that (stupidly) voted for it.

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