The UK parliament has just rejected Boris Johnson’s three-day timetable for debating his Brexit withdrawal deal.
MPs have voted to reject the government’s timetable for the passage of the bill that would implement the prime minister’s Brexit deal.
They voted against by 322 to 308; a majority of 14.
Boris Johnson said earlier today he would withdraw the bill and seek a general election if he lost the vote.
Confusingly, the government had earlier won approval for the withdrawal deal during its second reading by a comfortable majority of 329-299, giving the government hopes that its timetable would also pass.
Johnson now says that he will hit the ‘pause’ button on the legislation but insists he will proceed with the withdrawal plan.
I have no idea what happens now. With Brexit, there never seems to be any final outcome.
The bill got its second reading because, I think, some people wanted to be able to bring in amendments to it.
It lost on the timetable because 3 days to scrutinise a 110 page bill is ridiculous.
What now? Well, if the EU grant a long enough extension, I expect we’ll see a general election. Then the next Parliament/Government can try to sort out this mess.
I know right? It’s too much time for that bunch of whiners. Our Democrats got like 1 afternoon to look over a several hundred page tax giveaway to the rich in our last tax “reform”.
FFUUUUUCCKKKK everything going on right now.