Cruella de May postpones the Brexit deal

Theresa May has postponed the final vote on her Brexit deal, according to reports.

If the development is confirmed it will be seen as a clear admission by the prime minister that she does not believe she can get the unpopular withdrawal agreement through the House of Commons.

As the reports emerged, the Speaker’s office confirmed that May would give an oral statement to the House of Commons on the European Union at 3.30pm on Monday. It will be immediately followed by a business statement from the leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom.

The pound immediately tumbled to its lowest level in 18 months.

The prime minister spoke to cabinet colleagues on Monday in a hastily arranged conference call, after apparently concluding she could not win over enough of the 100 Tory MPs who said they were against the deal.

The postponement the day before the vote is a significant blow to May’s authority, although it will theoretically give her extra time to negotiate with the European Union and to win over hostile Tory MPs.

Downing Street and key ministers had repeatedly said the vote would not be delayed, in an attempt to concentrate the minds of MPs. Earlier on Monday morning, Michael Gove categorically stated the vote would go ahead.

Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if the vote was “definitely, 100%” going to happen, the environment secretary replied: “Yes”. Pressed on the point, he said: “The vote is going ahead.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/theresa-may-postpones-brexit-deal-meaningful-vote-eu

/facepalms

May will speak to MPs at 3.30GMT

Cruella de May will be lecturing (sorry, speaking to) MPs at 3.30 GMT today. It will take until then to reprogram the Maybot to be able spew out enough gobbledygook and platitudes to confuse the House.

She's dead in the water.

I'm sensing a Mexican Stand-Off here.

European Commission says it will not renegotiate withdrawal agreement

The European Commission has said that it will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement. At a press briefing the Commission’s spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said:

"We take note of the Court of Justice judgment today on the irrevocability of Article 50.

We have an agreement on the table which was endorsed by the European council in its Article 50 format on the 25th November.

As President Juncker said, this deal is the best and only deal possible. We will not renegotiate - our position has therefore not changed and as far as we are concerned the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union on the 29th March 2019."

Article 50 was never supposed to be invoked and they can't get the genie back into t he bottle.

>>4238284

EU have dug in and are saying the UK leaves ion 2019.

>>4238304

The 'EU Project' is going to fail. The cabal are losing.

Time for a little co-opting of the symbolism, I reckon…

Too subtle..?

Corbyn says postponement of Brexit vote shows UK no longer has functioning government

Jeremy Corbyn has claimed that Theresa May’s decision to pull the Brexit vote means the UK no longer has a functioning government. In a statement he said:

"The government has decided Theresa May’s Brexit deal is so disastrous that it has taken the desperate step of delaying its own vote at the eleventh hour.

We have known for at least two weeks that Theresa May’s worst of all worlds deal was going to be rejected by parliament because it is damaging for Britain. Instead, she ploughed ahead when she should have gone back to Brussels to renegotiate or called an election so the public could elect a new government that could do so.

We don’t have a functioning government. While Theresa May continues to botch Brexit, our public services are at breaking point and our communities suffer from dire under-investment.

Labour’s alternative plan for a jobs first deal must take centre stage in any future talks with Brussels."

>>4238445

Feel free to edit it, it's an idea to run with. It's ideal trolling batter for the EU and captures the zeitgeist.

Scottish Nationalists go in for the kill

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has put out this statement about today’s developments at Westminster.

"Assuming these reports are accurate, this is a watershed moment and an act of pathetic cowardice by a Tory government which has run out of road and is now collapsing into utter chaos. It is final proof that the interests of a deeply-divided Tory party matter far more to the prime minister than people’s jobs and living standards. That is an unforgivable dereliction of responsibility, and the UK government should now get out of the way and allow others to take charge.

It appears the vote is being delayed because of the Tory party civil war, and in a desperate attempt to save the prime minister’s job. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain but yet again our views are being ignored, as they have been throughout this disastrous and incompetent Brexit process.

The prime minister’s deal should come before the House of Commons immediately so that it can be voted down and we can replace Tory chaos with a solution that will protect jobs, living standards and Scotland’s place in Europe."

Slip slidin' away…

Shills becoming more frantic every day.