Cable and Farron fail to vote against amendment

[guest]

The amendment passed by 3 votes with 14 Tories voting against, but despite the amendment making our exit from the EU harder and with more economic risk the Liberal Democrat leader and former leader failed to show.

The Liberal Democrats remain the largest force for remain in British politics and their inability to get their leader to vote in a key and narrow vote is awful and has received some heavy criticism.

The Liberal Democrats have yet to release a statement on why two of their senior MPs didn’t vote but it may have been down to believing the government had the votes no matter their efforts.

The MPs were not paired as pairing has been suspended.

Jo Swinson also did not vote but is on maternity leave.

https://www.thepeoplesnewsonline.co.uk/ ... -won-by-3/


That's disgusting.

[Guest]

Tim Farron has apologised after he skipped a knife-edge Brexit vote to give a £5 talk about 'intolerance' to Christians following a row over whether gay sex is a sin.

The former Lib Dem leader was speaking to 100 people in an abbey in Dorset while MPs backed a divisive Hard Brexit by just three votes last night.

Current leader Sir Vince Cable also missed the vote because he was in a meeting. Party sources refused this morning to say where he was or what he was doing.

The anti-Brexit campaigners were absent despite changes to Theresa May's Brexit plan passing by a tiny majority in a day of House of Commons chaos.

Events changed rapidly through the day over the amendments to the Customs Bill, which Tory Leavers made in a bid to wreck Mrs May's plan for 'Soft Brexit'.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... s-12933789

[Rolluplostinspace]

The only opposition that turned up in any numbers was the Tory opposition.
May could have easily been defeated but nope .... they couldn't be arsed to turn up or ws hat their point that they didn't really want to be seen voting against May?
Where were the Labour opposition .... Her Majesty's Opposition?
The people's voice?

[Stooo]

I've tweeted the pair of twats, this is how they lose members.

[McAz]

I'm hoping there's a longer term strategy here - one for the benefit of the people, not the politicians and their respective parties...

...hoping.

[Stooo]

I'm hoping there's a longer term strategy here - one for the benefit of the people, not the politicians and their respective parties...

...hoping.

It's hardly benefiting the party when inaction such as this goes against the ethos of it. I'm really pissed off at this.

[McAz]

I'm hoping there's a longer term strategy here - one for the benefit of the people, not the politicians and their respective parties...

...hoping.

It's hardly benefiting the party when inaction such as this goes against the ethos of it. I'm really pissed off at this.

Longer term strategies are rarely immediately obvious - let us hope that this is part of a proverbial cunning plan.

[Stooo]

I'm hoping there's a longer term strategy here - one for the benefit of the people, not the politicians and their respective parties...

...hoping.

It's hardly benefiting the party when inaction such as this goes against the ethos of it. I'm really pissed off at this.

Longer term strategies are rarely immediately obvious - let us hope that this is part of a proverbial cunning plan.

Rather than dementia and arrogance?

[McAz]

I'm hoping there's a longer term strategy here - one for the benefit of the people, not the politicians and their respective parties...

...hoping.

It's hardly benefiting the party when inaction such as this goes against the ethos of it. I'm really pissed off at this.

Longer term strategies are rarely immediately obvious - let us hope that this is part of a proverbial cunning plan.

Rather than dementia and arrogance?

As I said, I'm hoping. I don't want to get too angry just yet.

[Stooo]

The Government have lost the medicine amendment. Customs Union is next.

[Stooo]

As I said, I'm hoping. I don't want to get too angry just yet.

The Pirate Party did some good things in Iceland. I'd probably go over to the Greens TBH.

[McAz]

As I said, I'm hoping. I don't want to get too angry just yet.

The Pirate Party did some good things in Iceland. I'd probably go over to the Greens TBH.

Stay put until this farce is through - there's a long way to go yet. I'll be joining you in the Greens if there's much more of this nonsense though.

[Stooo]

The Government have lost the medicine amendment. Customs Union is next.

They won by the same amount of votes as they lost the last one. Something's being greased.

[McAz]

The Government have lost the medicine amendment. Customs Union is next.

They won by the same amount of votes as they lost the last one. Something's being greased.

When isn't it?

This is not a great day.

[Stooo]

The Government have lost the medicine amendment. Customs Union is next.

They won by the same amount of votes as they lost the last one. Something's being greased.

When isn't it?

This is not a great day.

Jo gives me hope.

Congrats on the birth of Gabriel Peter Kelvin Hames