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If you are interested in speculating how Tuesday's vote will go there is a great spreadsheet linked here showing what the compiler thinks each individual MP's views are.Projected result - defeat of over 200 and not yet enough support for a 2nd ref.https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK
CoopsYou're assessment of what May should do makes sense only if you start from the premise that this is about Brexit.I've thought for a very long time now that it's about nothing of the sort. It's about who rules the Tory party. May, clearly, is hanging on for as long as she possibly can and is therefore utterly incapable of doing what you are suggesting. Because the only thing at the moment that might command a Parliamentary majority is a very watered down Brexit. And that would be the end of her because it would mean open civil war in the Tory party and the end of the last vestige of control that she might have. Meanwhile, the ERG types (and every one of the more moderate front runners to replace are ramping up the "betrayal of democracy" line about a delay. Not because they think this smooths the Brexit path. Because they are playing to the blue rinse, flat earth Tory membership for the eventual leadership challenge. They are saying, "See! I was on your side all along. It's the other bas**rds who betrayed you! So vote for me when the time comes."Go back over the past generation and a half and that's all that the Europe debate has ever been about. Who holds sway in the f**king Tory party. And to think how many Labour working class folk have been duped into being pawns in this game...
The ante is being raised by the hour.https://mobile.twitter.com/Peston/status/1105074130284613633This is final the crisis moment. Not really any more space for May to shuffle into.
That would be entirely unacceptable TRB. She guaranteed a meaningful vote for tomorrow. If she tries to renege on that, with just 13 working days till Brexit, Parliament has to take over and sideline her. It WILL be a constitutional crisis, but it will be entirely May's doing.