21 June 2018

Amendable or unamendable?

Does anyone really care about whether the Tory rebels or the government emerged the better from yesterday's arcane debate on "the ability of MPs to amend a government motion on the next steps to take in the event that Mrs May cannot strike a Brexit deal with Brussels"?

The Times gets to the empty heart of the outcome, probably:
The more fundamental question is whether any of this matters. As Mr Grieve himself said, the government failing to reach a deal would usher in one of the most chaotic political crises in modern British history. In that scenario, minor aspects of parliamentary procedure would not take centre stage.
Bald men fighting over a comb.  Meanwhile, the clock ticks on in terms of the government actually deciding what it wants from a settlement with the EU.

  

   

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