Brexit : British Government loses key Brexit bill vote after Tory rebellion

[OnDoutside]

The government has been narrowly defeated in a key vote on its Brexit bill after a rebellion by Tory MPs.
In a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May, MPs voted to give Parliament a legal guarantee of a vote on the final Brexit deal struck with Brussels. The government had argued this would jeopardise its chances of delivering a smooth departure from the EU.
Despite a last-minute attempt to offer concessions to rebels, an amendment to the bill was backed by 309 to 305.

SNIP

After the result was announced, one of the rebels, former cabinet minister Nicky Morgan, tweeted: "Tonight Parliament took control of the EU Withdrawal process." The UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, and negotiations are taking place on what their relationship will be in the future. The EU Withdrawal Bill is a key part of the government's exit strategy.
Its effects include ending the supremacy of EU law and copying existing EU law into UK law, so that the same rules and regulations apply on Brexit day.

MPs have been making hundreds of attempts to change its wording - but this is the first time one has succeeded.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42346192

[Pope George Ringo II]

1. Brexit truly stands as the dumbest thing done in an election for many decades.

There are some serious contenders for that title, but Brexit is just awful, and gets worse every time it mutates. I cling to the vain hope we can find some way to reverse it before it wreaks all the havoc it threatens.

[OnDoutside]

2. So do I. Bit by bit, I think people are starting to realize the stupidity of the decision. From

where they are now in the negotiations, they may end up with more or less the same terms as before, except zero power, votes or influence.

[Blue_true]

3. I don't know. 63% of those voting elected Trump with Russian help.

The Brexit pushers got Russian help also.

[Pope George Ringo II]

4. Trump's election is one of the more serious challengers

But the sheer staggering enormity of the stupidity, carnage, xenophobia, and provincialism of Brexit actually beats Trump at his own game.

There's no getting around the fact that Putin had a good year in 2016, and the civilized world had a bad year.

[Blue_true]

5. Yep, Putin and his cabal punked civilization.

Germany saw it coming and he still damaged Merkel, although he could not take her out.