MPs back Brexit Bill triggering Article 50 by a landslide in landmark vote as resignations rock

[LeftishBrit]

Labour.



Britain took a major step towards leaving the EU tonight as MPs backed triggering Brexit by a landslide.

The House of Commons voted 498-114 for a Bill giving Theresa May authority to invoke Article 50, which begins Britain's two-year EU exit.

MPs also defeated an SNP bid to block Article 50 by 336 votes to 100.

But Jeremy Corbyn as rocked by last-minute resignations from his shadow cabinet as Labour remained desperately divided.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/national/mps-back-brexit-bill-triggering-article-50-by-a-landslide-in-landmark-vote-as-resignations-rock-labour/ar-AAmvDbE?li=BBoPWjQ&OCID=DELLDHP


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[LeftishBrit]

1. What amazes and depresses me is not so much those who back Brexit...

but all those, especially in the Labour Party, who think Brexit is a terrible idea, but nonetheless that they MUST vote for it, because 'it is the will of the people'.

The will of a narrow majority of those who voted.

Yet they are prepared to go along with all kinds of other things, e.g. NHS 'reforms', which a majority clearly oppose.

And AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS HAS DEVELOPED SINCE THE REFERENDUM!!! The accession to power of American Psycho changes everything. We will be driven into his arms if we leave the EU.

We condemn Neville Chamberlain for his appeasement; but at least he was doing it with the misguided aim of preventing a *war*. May et al are appeasing American Psycho in order to obtain trade deals to replace those that could be much more readily obtained in the EU. And most Tory Remainers, and even Labour Remainers, are facilitating this!

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. An example of the danger of May's embrace of Trump: he wants us to pay more for medicines

“We’re going to be ending global freeloading. Foreign price controls reduce the resources of American drug companies to finance drug and R&D innovation. I think you people know that very well. Very unfair to this country,” Trump said.

“Our trade policy will prioritise that foreign countries pay their fair share for US-manufactured drugs so our drug companies have greater financial resources to accelerate the development of new cures. And I think it’s so important. But right now, it’s very unfair what other countries are doing to us,” he added.

http://www.india.com/news/agencies/trump-calls-for-bringing-healthcare-prices-down-1800389/

So that's what to expect in the trade agreement the Tories are so keen on. Plus, of course, increased access to profit-making American companies cherry-picking bits of the NHS. In the EU, we'd have the collective clout to resist such things.

[T_i_B]

3. Most Labour constituencies voted to leave

And that has spooked a lot of Labour MP's. To the point that many of them on all wings of the party have pretty much given up on the whole concept of parliamentary opposition and holding the government to account.

Trouble is, people are not looking on this as enacting their constituents will on the part of both Tory and Labour "remain" MP's, they are just looking on their acceptance of the results as weakness. Pro EU MP's are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't.