Labour back tracks and betrays the British public over Brexit.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/26/labour-wins-plaudits-from-uk-business-after-brexit-speech

Sarah Wollaston on Newsnight was extremely good. She talked about the problems of borders if we have a hard Brexit.

www.drsarah.org.uk/sarah's-blog/a-customs-union-or-arrangement-is-in-all-our/2568

durhamjen

You do not know what her constituents think!

Vauxhall constituency voters kept Kate Hoey as their Labour MP knowing she voted Leave. If the constituency voters of Vauxhall felt let down by Kate Hoey and wanted to show their distain and wanted a Remain MP they could have voted for George Turner the Lib Dem Candidate but they showed a tad more respect for the Labour Candidate than some Labour Party Members obviously do.

The Labour vote in Vauxhall was 31.576 . The Labour Party Members numbership is approximately 2.500 I believe .

You are repeating / relaying information from the Labour Party Members in Vauxhall but you have absolutely no knowledge of how the bulk of the constituency voters would/will vote if Kate Hoey is not deselected by the next General Election, nor do you know that the bulk of the Vauxhall constituency voters who are not Labour Party Members. ' want rid of Kate Hoey '.

I grant you the Labour Party Members in Vauxhall probably do ' want rid of ' Kate Hoey but unless they deselect her, again a distinct probability, then only a General Election with Kate Hoey standing as the Labour Candidate can possibly show what the Vauxhall Constituents want and who ' ' they want rid of '.

Oh I see the lefties are sticking the knives into one of their own now because she speaks out for many Labour leave voters who want out of the EU.

Poor Kate Hoey. It's amusing to watch the Labour faithful showing their true colours.

Is she one of the few who has principles and doesn't blow with the wind, unlike the leader of the party?

"Without a form of customs union or arrangement, border checks are an inconvenient inevitability. Without a customs union the current fudge over the border between North and South on the island of Ireland will inevitably become untenable. No one wants a return to the conflict of the past. The price of abandoning any kind of customs union is too high and I won't support it.

There is also a simple truth that there is no Parliamentary majority for a walk-away, no-deal Brexit. The small band of hard Brexiteer MPs need to stop throwing down red lines like spaghetti and stop threatening to remove the PM unless she bends to their will. The PM has herself spoken clearly of wanting a customs agreement with the EU and NC5 is compatible with that as it does not call for 'the' Customs Union on existing terms. My role as an MP is to read the evidence and to clearly state the case for what I believe is in the best interests of my constituency and the country even if that is sometimes wilfully misrepresented by those who simply want us to walk away, whatever the unintended consequences."

Sarah Wollaston shows more concern for Ireland than Kate Hoey.

I hear the bookmakers won't take bets on Kate Hoey being deselected. It's a foregone conclusion - she is a Labour rebel and speaks out against the EU. Momentum have marked her card.

The Momentum line - 'Do as we say, stay onside, or we dispose of you.'

Nice, kind, compassionate Trots.

I have a feeling that Tory and Libdem voters want rid of Kate Hoey, POGS. They would be strange if they didn't!
Only 22% of Vauxhall voters voted to leave. They were number 640 out of 650 constituencies.
She hardly represents her constituents. She has only attended 50% of the votes this parliament. It was even less last year, 47%

Day6, she doesn't represent her constituents, and only goes to parliament half the time. It will be nothing to do with Momentum if she is deselected.

www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Kate_Hoey&mpc=Vauxhall&house=commons

Only Stringer rebels more than her.
Even Clarke has only rebelled 25%; Soubry 9%, but at least they turn up to vote.

"I grant you the Labour Party Members in Vauxhall probably do ' want rid of ' Kate Hoey but unless they deselect her, again a distinct probability"

Oh you do make me laugh DJ.

" A distinct probability"...hilarious. A foregone conclusion is what it is.

Poor woman. Momentum are instructing a purge.

She raised her head above the parapet. If only some of her colleagues in the Labour Party had the integrity and bravery to do the same. A majority of MPs refused to follow Corbyn a few years ago. I am beginning to think the Labour Party benches in the Commons have become the resting place of two-faced, self-serving career politicians.

The Independent's headline less than 2 years ago:
Jeremy Corbyn loses 'no confidence' vote among Labour MPs by 172 to 40

Only 40 followers. And now Momentum get in on the act. Those 172, if they haven't gone already, need to watch their backs or do some serious sucking up.

Makes you think......

"How has the Labour position shifted?

Labour’s 2017 manifesto said merely that the party wanted to retain “the benefits of the single market and the customs union”, and did not say the UK should stay in either. In recent months, however, a series of senior Labour figures have argued for the UK to be in “a” customs union post-Brexit.
What’s the difference between “a” customs union and “the” customs union?

Labour says the latter is the existing arrangement, which ends when we leave the EU, and that “a” union could retain the bulk of the benefits without overly tying the UK to rules made in Brussels. Critics, mainly in the government, argue that this could be seen as Labour’s own version of an unrealistic “cake and eat it” approach.
Why has Labour's position moved?

Corbyn has never seemed that keen on the customs union, but he has faced pressure both from members of his team – the shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has played a key role – and the fact that the majority of Labour members support customs union and single market membership. There is also the incentive that Labour could defeat the government in the Commons by voting with Tory rebels on an amendment to back the customs union."

From the Guardian.

I'm afraid your ideas just make me cringe, Day6.

When did you last vote Labour?

durhamjen

"Kate Hoey has rebelled 400 times since 1997.
Corbyn has rebelled 500 times. She's not that far behind, is she?"
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That is in part because they both walked through the same lobby to vote against the European Union on so many occassions .

Dennis Skinner would have joined them too and he made that point when he was recently castigated because he dared stick to his principal and defied Party Orders and voted for the EU Withdrawal Bill.

10 hours of the HoL discussing the loss of agencies like the European Medicines Agency, Erasmus, Eurotom amongst other self inflicted wounds.
Sheer madness

Tomorrow the legal text of what “full regulatory alignment” means in practice.

Watch and listen to the hard right and the DUP. They are breaking their necks to finish with the GFA.

Oh dear what has happened to the Tory party.
They have always been seen as the traditional party of business, but no longer.

Fox has attacked business because it has the temerity to understand what is in the national interest and it isn’t Brexit, particularly the sort that he supports.

Does Fox not understand that a whopping 44% of our trade in goods is done with the EU.
Does Fox not understand the enormous burden he intends should there be no CU
Does Fox not understand the fantastic benefits a single market has brought to our businesses

It seems not.

Fox does understand hardline ideology
Fox does understand the fantastic amount of money many of his cronies are set to make come Brexit
Fox does understand the opportunity that Brexit will bring to make a huge bonfire of our protective regulations

Sir Martin Donnelly was until recently Fox's top advisor

“Leaving The CUband SM is like giving up a full three course meal for the promise of a packet of crisps”

Does Fox not realise that crisps are bad for you?

Back to the legal documentation for “full regulatory alignment” being drawn up by EU lawyers.

It is well recognised in the world of business that the one draws up the first draft is always at an advantage.
David Alan Green

God the U.K. government is b....y useless

Rees-Mogg is getting a roasting on social media over his assertion that Brexit will help the poorest in the world and his lies over the EU tariffs on imported goods from Africa.

Social media means that these lies posted sonoften and with such apparent authority on MSM are all being called out for what they are

LIES

Jo Maughen QC

Brexiters who pretended that they were about correcting a legal deficit in Europe are taking advisecas to how to by-pass Parliament”
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Oh no he's not whitewave

Fox the former disgraced foreign minister, is to make a speech today to outline why he should continue to keep his non- productive job, continuing to travel the world on his jollies.

What happened to Werrity? Anyone know?

wally.?

whitewave You are making these opinions as if they were fact when in actual fact you haven't got a clue if any of them will come to pass.

Which ones?