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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
#FRANCE: Over 700 people were arrested during a day of violent protest across France.
#USA: Donald Trump announced that his Chief of Staff John Kelly will be leaving his post in the New Year.
#ITALY: One woman and five children were killed during a stampede at an Italian nightclub.
Tory MP Priti Patel suggested using the possibility of food shortages in Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit to encourage the EU to drop the backstop. Queue facepalms from a few million people.
Not only were Patel’s comments naive and astoundingly tone deaf considering Britain’s involvement with, you know, starving over a million of us to death in the 1840s, they were actually plain wrong.
It turns out we’re actually the second most food secure nation in the world after Singapore. You can have a look here.
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So Jeremy has just been stringing the UK along to see if an election would come first ?
@Liam Morgan: Corbyn never cared about Brexit either way. All he wants is power so he can transform the UK into his socialist paradise. He’s been using Brexit to try and force an election which is his only priority
@Paul J. Redmond: exactly. Once the 2nd ref results in a remain win. May will call an election and corbyn will romp home!!
@Paul J. Redmond: socialist paradise! About bloody time!
@Liam Morgan: Changed tracks the other day, reports approx 70 more labour MP’s were thinking of moving over to the breakaway lot of Umumma. The man is shallow, without principles, the anti semitism row is increasing and will dominate MSM. He’ll be gone soon.
@wattsed56: is he really anti semitic or is he just anti Isreal? There is a difference but it seems these days if you criticise Israel you are painted with the anti Semite brush
@Oliver Jumelle: May is without doubt the worst PM in centuries, no leadership skills whatsoever.
@Gus Sheridan: rubbish she is not even the worst of the last two
@wattsed56: 70 MPs? The breakaway lot won’t accept them if they’re not part of Labour Friends for Israel.
@Jane: The jury is out on him, but he certainly doesn’t help himself with defending the allegations. As for the party whom he leads, most certainly a number of both grass roots – Momentum members definitely yes. Another MP suspended tonight.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: They’d accept Tony Blair if he were an MP. Says a lot.
@wattsed56: yep. Blair Brown and Miliband were heavily funded by the same group that are heavily funding Labour Friends for Israel and individually donating to the breakaway MPs. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-lobby-funders-back-breakaway-british-mps
@Eoghan Ryan: think she is!
Motions in parliament are not legally binding on the UK government. The only thing that matters is statute, and the statute that is relevant to Brexit is the EU Withdrawal Act which was passed in 2018. That piece of primary legislation (which is the most powerful type of legislation) requires that the UK leaves the European Union on March 29th with or without a deal. The only person who can initiate primary legislation (which is what would be needed to override the EU Withdrawal Act) is the prime minister herself/himself. So, it is really up to Theresa May herself as to whether she wants to undermine Brexit, and subvert the will of her electorate, by delaying her country’s exit from the European Union.
@J. Reid: Perfectly correct. Interesting looking at the numbers in this article, a large number of abstentions I think from both major parties.
@J. Reid: thanks for the clarification
Theres no point in delaying the inevitable. Just f*** off
@Jamie: it’s not inevitable, and there’s every point in delaying it. No Brexit is a positive result for us. We’re all sick of it, but them just f’ing off is not what we want. Not one bit.
So Jacob Rees-Mogg said “any vote to delay Brexit is a plot to stop Brexit” but I don’t see his name up there among the 20 MPs who voted against the amendment.
@David Daly: he voted to allow a meaningful vote on the matter, which is the current government policy, and his is whipped to follow government policy. Once the vote is put to the house, he will presumably vote against it.
But I do see the irony yes.
Anything good on the old telly tonight now that the Muppet Show is over?
Well one thing is for certain …….brexit ain’t happening . This whole thing was just one giant game of chicken !
Its beyond though joke
@Donnacha Bhoicaire: Nicely done fella!
The entire problem here is that many in the UK don’t understand that backstop and don’t appreciate that the introduction of the backstop would be a disaster for the EU.
they no more want it than the UK does. Basically under a backstop the UK will have the advantages of the single market without making contributions and having to accept free movement of people or the jurisdiction of EU Courts and enjoys fishing rights that has annoyed a number of EU countries.
… Also with the backstop in operation the EU will have difficulty negotiating third party trade deals and it’s already an issue in EU/Australia trade negotiations… The May deal is a very good deal for the UK and they should accept it and I am fairly sure they will..
Because they don’t know their arse from their elbow
@Ian James Burgess: Well they’ve been sitting around on their elbows long enough. Time to sort it out once and for all
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