Utträdesavtalet negotiated for two years with the EU, has already been voted down on two occasions. In the last week, said Bercow that he therefore will only allow a new vote if the agreement is changed in any ”significant” way.
Many thought that the suspension with which the EU has given, with a change of utträdesdatum to the 12th of april, would suffice.
But this is not the case.
” I understand that the government is considering to hold a third vote, either in the morning [Thursday] or Friday. Therefore, I want to, in order to avoid misunderstandings, make it clear that I do not expect that the government will pass the test [on a changed agreement], ” said Bercow on Wednesday.
the president is not going to allow a new vote. He warned the government to try to round him, by holding a vote to disapprove the decision.
the Parliament’s civil servants have been given instructions that no such proposals or votes may be through, ” said Bercow harshly.
the Basis for the president’s decision is a rule dating back to 1604, according to which a government may not submit the same proposal several times during the same parliamentary term (which corresponds to a Swedish riksdagsår).
is about to become a very controversial figure in british politics, then he also decided to approve a wide-ranging debate about alternatives to the government’s Brexitplan.
“Colleagues, I very much look forward to this debate and its polls, which can give the house a chance to restart the process in a positive way, by showing what the house actually want to have,” said Bercow, when the debate began.
Later on Wednesday evening is expected to a series of ”indicative”, non-legally binding votes are to be held. Of the original 16 proposals, eight have been selected, ranging from a ”hard” avtalslös Brexit, to a new referendum and to stop Brexit completely.
the Idea is that the way to be able to work out a Brexitstrategi that has support in the house.
this is an open challenge, and she has warned that she does not intend to accept to change the government’s strategy, regardless of which proposal gets the most votes.
the Prime minister has in recent days made desperate efforts to get the rebellious brexitörfalangen in the ruling party, the Tories and stödpartiet DUP to vote yes to the agreement.
Just before the Bercows vengeance seemed these efforts have begun to bear fruit, then the profiled brexitörerna Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg said that they are now considering to vote yes to the agreement.
on Wednesday night marks the beginning of a meeting behind closed doors in 1922-committee, where all the Tory members are included. It has been rumored that Theresa May may then offer to resign, in exchange for the rebellious partikamraternas support for utträdesavtalet.
But there is no guarantee that such a tactic would actually lead to a majority for a yes to Mays agreements. And now, it can prove to be difficult or even impossible to get to a vote at all.
to be able to be that May ask the queen to suspend the parliamentary session begins, and then start a new one. But it will in that case hardly improve the prime minister’s relationship to the house of commons, diplomatically expressed.
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