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Re: Monday 16th July 2018

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I see the DfE still haven't published the document about teachers pay that is effective from September.

Well, that's OK...not as if it's the last week of term or anything...Oh...
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The Webbian line re bedroom tax and dialysis shows the inconsistency," saint/scrounger "depiction,you can be both at the same time in easy fit nonsenses.
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We were part of the long term economic plan and sitting at home doing nothing for x years.Multitasking.
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I didn't keep Cameron's letter.
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"Competition?"
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Do they have a penalty shoot out if they can't decide?
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Wimbledon cleaning staff 'take food from bins due to low pay'
Housekeepers claim club provides insufficient money for food during their shifts

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HindleA wrote:I didn't keep Cameron's letter.
Not even as toilet paper?
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Still think it dubious No.10 using HMRC information (ie."business")for personalised targeted party political purposes.Though thousands of "business",start ups etc aren't really businesses as such.((Direct Payment/Personal budget)
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Employer/not working,there's another one.
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I've simplified,pensioner receiving retired member of Unison full time worker.
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Should say I wasn't the employer.
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May faces Commons reckoning over cross-border trade bill
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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... trade-bill

May faces Commons reckoning over cross-border trade bill
It's going tremendously badly it seems.

Even Laura K is openly mocking the Government.

In a nutshell, to avoid a rebellion by the Mogg faction, she's caved on some amendments and provoked a new rebellion on her other flank.
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“This is a s**tshow” - reports prominent PPS still in Government ringing around as alternative whip for ERG amendments... says Remainer MPs will now (today or tomorrow) push for full customs union to remind ERG of “mutually assured destruction”
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What will it take for the Remain Tories to actually break cover and vote May down?
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May said at Chequers that if they didn't accept her proposals the pro-remain rebels would force through a customs union amendment.

So they kind of have to rebel, really, if they want May to be as good as her word.

If the ERG amendments stand, we're back to square one with May having nothing credible to go to the EU with on the Irish Border issue and that means no deal. At least that's how it's looking if Faisal Islam in correct in his interpretation:

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this is one of the Rees Mogg amendments accepted - it makes “unlawful” for HMRC to do what was official government policy as set out on Thursday and agreed at Chequers by Cabinet,
unless EU also collects tariffs for UK, which was not mentioned in either last week. Incredible.
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Thanks for the analysis.

It does all become very stark doesn't it.
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Well, the Trump / Putin press conference seems to have gone well...
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Interesting comments by Heidi Allen underneath that Faisal Islam tweet!
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If ERG amendment goes to a division. & it looks likely, we could see spectacular embarrassment for government: having surrendered to rebel Brexiters of ERG & adopted ERG amendments as its own, it would be amazing if those amendments were lost because of Tory Remainer rebellion!
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Understand Labour MPs have just voted in favour of adopting the full IHRA anti-semitism definition (with examples) at private PLP meeting tonight.

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All getting a bit complicated on the trade bill votes.

I'm assuming we're looking for a Tory pro-remain rebellion on the ERG amendments accepted by the government?

But they don't seem to be pressing for a customs union amendment and presumably won't support Labour's?
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The Commons is meant to start its summer recess on Tuesday next week. But, as HuffPost reports, there are rumours at Westminster, which are not being denied by people in government, that the government will bring it forward so that the recess starts on Thursday. MPs do know how to use phones, but plotting is always much more intense when they are gathered together in person in the House of Commons and, from the whips’ point of view, the best way to keep them out of trouble is to send them on holiday.
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2 years DD was in that job and he really has learnt nothing at all.
Davis says he used to do business across the US/Canada border.

He says that border operates effectively for business, even though there are tariffs.
Davis says the most complicated border issue is in Ireland. But no British government, and no Irish government, would install a hard border there.
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Willow904 wrote:All getting a bit complicated on the trade bill votes.

I'm assuming we're looking for a Tory pro-remain rebellion on the ERG amendments accepted by the government?

But they don't seem to be pressing for a customs union amendment and presumably won't support Labour's?
Because they think Chequers 'agreement' is near enough, as I understand it.
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Well, quite...
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In the teeth of the expenses scandal, Nick Clegg proposed cancelling the summer recess because there was work to be done.

It was a silly idea, but looks like great statesmanship when compared with sacking-off-on-holiday-because-we-don’t-know-what-to-do
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ITMA -- who-runs-the-country-the-answer-is-too-awful-to-contemplate

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Breaking: one ministerial resignation about to be announced - saw the Minister going through the lobby with us now, against the Tory whip, to face down this ridiculous ERG amendment we’re voting on now (which the Govt capitulated on)
Edit - not a Brexiteer then!
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Oh him!....er...what did he do again?
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Sending MPs on early holiday could make all the difference for May
While Tories remain so febrile over Brexit, there is little point keeping them at Westminster
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The slightly more sensible tories should all write to the '22 bloke asking for a confidence vote.
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Tory rebels at 14 now include new names Guto Bebb and Mark Pawsey...
Labour rebels who prevented government defeat (3) were Hoey, Field & Stringer -

Great irony that only last week Rees Mogg was very disconcerted about the Government passing its Brexit on “socialist votes”
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Excellent recent one from Chuck Schumer TODAY

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Field, Hoey and Stringer were the government's 3 vote majority in both of the tight votes this evening. (Ro'T - Snap!)
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Another take on the early rising of Parliament...
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Seriously? Parliament is going to vote to end term early, while Nick Gibb wages war against parents taking their kids out of school at the end of the year to have a cheaper holiday?
Yeah, that's not a good look...
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Vince Cable and Tim Farron also missing from Brexit vote government only won by 3. Not a good look for the Lib Dems.
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New clause 37, which would make it unlawful for Northern Ireland to form a separate customs territory to Great Britain, passed on the nod. The government had said it was in line with its policy.
So... either the EU accepts what it's previously rejected as magical thinking or no withdrawal agreement and no transition period?
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The Tories are now totally trapped. Either they own a catastrophic hard Brexit for which there has been no adequate preparation, or they don't deliver the Brexit 70 per cent of their voters support.
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Although I'd love to know just how you could adequately prepare for no deal Brexit.
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gilsey wrote:Although I'd love to know just how you could adequately prepare for no deal Brexit.

It's very easy !

You jump off the cliff 100% certain that the water is deep .

SPLAT !
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