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I found this on an EU Law specialist's Twitter feed... They'll very likely add a clickable contents list after the legal "verification" has taken place. The article nos may change they say, which is probably why there's no contents list yet.

The Gov Sell-Out Brexit protesters are back, and this time they're really going for it...

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently Gove was offered the job of Brexit > Secretary and one of the conditions was he had to > renegotiate the deal. So Theresa May wants to > renegotiate now (as she knows this one won't pass) I read that it was Gove who wanted to renegotiate. Anyway, Gove not resigning... ETA..He says he wants to stay to try and achieve the best Brexit outcome. Fine, so why not take the Brexit Secretary job then? Too busy sharpening his knife. Once a duplicitous back-stabbing lizard...

And this one from David Baddiel's Twitter feed... ‏ ''I feel I should take the job of Brexit Secretary now. If only so that when I resign, Theresa May can finally be proved right that No Deal is better than a Baddiel.''

Jacob Rees Mogg submits letter of no confidence in May...

Have you noticed how perfect the tarmac finish is in Downing Street, even the patch repair is super smooth, unlike our lumpy peasant streets... :)

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anyway I see a huge catfight coming (and not only > Larry). From Larry's Twitter feed... ?The Prime Minister offered me the position of Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. After careful consideration for three seconds, I have declined the offer?

In case you're wondering why there wasn't much publicity about Farage's call to arms yesterday to demonstrate outside Downing Street*... *Press and passers-by don't count Nige...

Thanks poch, from a personal point of view there's no point in another GE if Labour are still going down the Brexit route like they did at the last GE. Any form of Brexit will damage the economy and impact the poorest the most. So if anyone of a similar mind is writing to HH, please make a point of that, adding that a People's Vote is the only way out of this mess...

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > McVey Gone I heard on the radio this morning that if there are to be any resignations of an orchestrated nature, they tend to be on the hour, and right on cue McVey resigns an hour after Raab. Tick tock...

poch Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2nd referendum odds now 13/8 on! > > ps good day to SEND YOUR MP AN EMAIL if you > haven't already. Helen Hayes is backing another > vote, but it might be helpful to let Harriet > Harman know your views. > > 'If any agreement is voted down by Parliament, my > preference is for there to be a general election - > to try to get a Government that can negotiate the > best agreement for our country. However, if a > general election is not possible, all other > options for breaking the impasse must be kept open > including a public vote.' Is this a quote from Harman?...

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been thinking for a little while that May's > tactics have been to make such a hash of > negotiations that it will never get through > Parliament and so the UK will remain in UK. She > was a Remainer after all. But I'm probably just > being fanciful. May was never a staunch Remainer in the first place. No doubt there will be a blame game by Brexiters, but not one of them has ever wanted to own Brexit, hence why May was elected as leader. She was their patsy, it was common knowledge that if Brexit went ahead she'd then be kicked out. Looking likely that she may not even get that far...

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder how many additional letters of no > confidence in her will be written as a result of > this. Even if there was a vote, she could win it > as what other options are there? Thatcher won a vote of confidence but still resigned as she didn't carry an overwhelming majority...

Happy bedtime reading everyone... https://ec.europa.eu/commission/files/draft-agreement-withdrawal-united-kingdom-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-european-union-and-european-atomic-energy-community-agreed-negotiators-level-14-november-2018_en

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I bet Theresa May has something up her sleeve - > she may be really bad at some things but she's > always been good at finding ways of getting things > through parliament using every trick in the book. I reckon she'll use the ticking clock a lot, already has form for that, and is even doing it with her own Cabinet today. Having first seen the WA late last night, a document which by all accounts is 500 pages long, and very, very, detailed, they are expected to give a verdict on it this afternoon. Last December they couldn't even decipher a couple of A4s, which brought about the problematic issue of the Irish backstop. Expect it will go through with little fuss, then it will be interesting to see how May sells it to her party (and some Labour MPs in Leave seats). The obvious line will be the threat of No Deal, but that doesn't cut it with the ERG and DUP, or even Labour rebels like Hoey, who being Brexit ideologues would actually prefer that...

Something to lighten the mood, BBC Director and anti-Brexit protester go head to head :)... https://twitter.com/SimonNRicketts/status/1062684649749708800

Lots of analogies out there this morning, liking this one...Brexit is a Shetland pony with a traffic cone on its head... :)

*Faints...*

Statements like that don't really bother me at this stage, as there is an argument that to say something like ''there will be a 2nd ref'' would undermine their already tenuous negotiating position. At the moment it all feels like grandstanding at the eleventh hour, who will blink first. The consensus seems that whatever we end up with will get voted down and we'll end up in a full blown constitutional crisis with the clock still ticking. One under-reported event from last week is that the Gov lost an appeal against a case for the CJEU to rule whether the UK can unilaterally withdraw the A50 notice, thereby not needing the approval of all the EU27, as it currently stands. You'd think that would be a nice insurance to have should things get really sticky, but this Gov is trying to appeal again, this time to the Supreme Court, using 5 QC's, more than they used in the Gina Miller case. If it fails the case will be heard before the CJEU at the end of this month. This was one of the reasons why the Gov has been rushing to get a deal done for a Nov summit before then, but that doesn't look like it will happen now. Instead, it will be mid-Dec, which is good news and weakens the Gov's line that the only options are a bad deal or no deal. It also looks like the Gov will have to publish their Brexit legal advice. For a Gov that proposes Gov ''taking back control'', they have a funny way of showing it...

The new, improved maxxi has staying power. Week 12 points... Week 12 table...

Whatever happened to ''No deal is better than a bad deal''?...:)

I'd argue that JJ wouldn't have resigned were it nor for the 700k...

The thoughts of a financial expert... https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2018/10/initiative-q/