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Nice one. I'm on the cusp of getting involved. I know how important it is, but just ... I don't know ... life and stuff. I just need to take the plunge.

Anyone on here been to any XR meetings or talks?

How did we get to this place?! About to leave the EU with no deal in place. Seriously, how!

This is Steve Baker refuting the claim that the ERG has refused to compromise since 2016

Thank fuck for that

Govt look set to lose by 46

And Caroline Lucas again showing her class:

"While parliament might be deadlocked by Brexit, other political imperatives have not disappeared, and some MPs are trying to make sure they are not forgotten.

On Tuesday the Green MP Caroline Lucas and Labour MP Clive Lewis are publishing a private member’s bill for a so-called Green New Deal, intended to introduce a radical, decade-long shift to move to low-carbon energy, with wider environmental protections.

The idea has been in the news recently due to efforts by Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others to push it in the US. But the concept has been around for longer – Lucas co-founded a UK group dedicated to the idea 10 years ago.

Taking its name from Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s, the Green New Deal would similarly seek to boost prosperity through government spending and intervention, in this case in areas such as more sustainable energy, homes and transport.

This is, Lucas and Lewis say, the first bill to reach the UK parliament, and they hope to gain some cross-party support. Lucas said: “We need to do what is required of us – not simply what is seen as politically possible.”

"Verhofstadt and other MEPs have for a long time been urging the UK to develop a cross-party approach to Brexit. Their stance reflects that fact that, in most continental countries, cross-party cooperation is much more common, and seen as much more desirable, than it is in the UK, where first-past-the-post and the adversarial nature of the House of Commons makes it a rarity."

I must be having weird Green fantasy dreams. When I saw that the tories were plotting to get rid of May, I came up with the genius (ridiculous) idea of the commons supporting a unity government headed up by Caroline Lucas. She is pretty universally respected, and as she is the only green MP, she would be forced to pick a government with MP's from all the other parties. The new government remit would be to come up with a consensus solution for Brexit, then hold a GE.

Then I saw that they weren't actually going to get rid of May, but just try and come up with another way to get her deal through again. Oh.

Yeah, they really need some form of transferable vote, where they can pick 1st, 2nd, 3rd choice etc.

Otherwise the vote is split 3/4/5 ways with no option gaining a majority of the house.

They just need to get into the 21st fucking century.

@Yasi + anyone else that can make it

We were thinking of either 2nd, 9th or 16th of April for the next games night at Proceed Clockwise. Do any of those dates work?

I think you'll find:
best interests of UK < best interests of Conservative party < best interests of TM

She has pretty much done exactly what the far right of the party wants, from the red lines to still allowing a no-deal brexit as a possibility .

At least with someone like JRM or Boris at the head of the party, there would have been an organised resistance, but May has subverted that because she was meant to be the resistance to these nutters.

Great. We are trying to organise another session in April, so will post the date up on this thread as soon as we know.

Or, you know, faced with such a shit show, May could compromise with the opposition, or change tack and try something different.

But no, exactly the same thing over and over until either it works or the UK is fucked.

These march for leavers sound special:
“My main reason for doing this is we’ve got a democracy and parliament is overthrowing democracy,” he said, on his first ever political rally. “I don’t want my grandchildren being conscripted by an EU army likely led by the Germans.”

This is a fucking shit show.

Government motion will pass, which basically assures that May will bring back the same deal again next week, but now the brexiteers will get behind it, otherwise extension. Fucking hell.

*Unless the 4th amendment passes tonight, which stops the government bringing the same deal back

No, May will just bring her deal back next week, and with DUP + ERG support, along with the few labour rebels who keep backing her, it will pass.

DUP and ERG are making noises about a compromise with the government now. We are pretty much just going to get May's deal passed next week and we'll be out, aren't we?

Labour whipping it's MP's to abstain from the People's Vote amendment

Just a reminder, a few of us are meeting at http://proceedclockwise.com/ at 6pm tomorrow, Tuesday 12 March. Come down if you fancy a game or two.

Hesitated to post this here, but found it really interesting and explained a lot of thoughts I'd had but couldn't articulate properly.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic

No expert on this, but pretty sure Good Energy generate their own renewable energy
https://www.goodenergy.co.uk/our-energy/

Pakistan have shot down 2 Indian planes and captured the pilots. India claim to have downed a Pakistani plane.

Imran Khan was elected on a platform of standing up to Indian aggression. And nationalist Modi is facing elections in 2 months.

Can't see this going wrong at all.