HoC Amendment to keep Britain in the Single Market and Customs Union fails

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House of Commons Amendment to keep Britain within the Single Market and Customs Union fails

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Well done all those MPs - from across the Commons - who voted to ensure that Brexit means Brexit.

RIP the scam that was 'soft' Brexit. We're all Ukippers now. ;)

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Corbyn has just sacked Labour frontbenchers who voted for staying in the SM+CU.

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[lawrawrrr]

i hate the entire idea that politicians are forced to vote a certain way, how can they represent their constituency?? If they don't they literally lose their entire career future.

but that's unrelated to this topic


didn't think this would have any chance of passing tbh, idk why it was picked?

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Yeah the whole system of party whips is kinda weird, I get that it helps with stability overall but what's the point in having MPs rather than just a number system if that's how it'll work

In any case glad this was left out, it's literally just a waaaah fest and is pretty disrespectful. Reads more like a teenager subtweeting their history teacher or something

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didn't think this would have any chance of passing tbh, idk why it was picked?

It was pretty much the Remainers last stand, it was speculated following the GE that with a minority government somehow SM+CU membership (EEA/EFTA) could be retained by building a coalition of Tories, Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats. Nobody speculating with this though seems to have read the manifestos of the two main parties of which 85% of people voted for - both of which said we're leaving the SM+CU.

The only possible hurdle left could be the House of Lords, but with the Commons so clear with this vote peers would be mad to attempt to oppose the manifestos of the two largest parties - it would cause a constitutional crisis as it would break the Salisbury Convention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Convention). It's argued this doesn't apply in a hung parliament, but with this vote the Lords would be challenging a fairly united Commons on this issue. Had the vote today been closer, then the Lords would have felt more empowered.

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That's the European geopolitical/integration model as it stands now.

I suspect the British flag will move to the outer rim of alongside Russia and the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries - being only in the non-EU body of the Council of Europe but having our own Free Trade Agreement with the EU.