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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:31 PM Feb 2017

watching Parliament vote on Article 50 bill....

http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/6c20216a-6561-414d-8ad9-2d3a0036cab1

Looks like it might pass.

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watching Parliament vote on Article 50 bill.... (Original Post) steve2470 Feb 2017 OP

3rd division steve2470 Feb 2017 #1

Brexit vote: MPs pass Bill to trigger Article 50 by 498 votes to 114 - live MADem Feb 2017 #2

It was obviously going to pass; three-line whips with both main parties.. LeftishBrit Feb 2017 #3

steve2470

(37,457 posts)

1. 3rd division

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:33 PM

Feb 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/feb/01/article-50-debate-vote-bill-pmqs-theresa-may-jeremy-corbyn-ivan-rogers-to-give-evidence-to-mps-about-why-he-quit-as-uks-ambassador-to-eu-politics-live

MADem

(135,425 posts)

2. Brexit vote: MPs pass Bill to trigger Article 50 by 498 votes to 114 - live

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:51 PM

Feb 2017

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/01/theresa-may-eu-bill-brexit-pmqs-live2/

LeftishBrit

(41,212 posts)

3. It was obviously going to pass; three-line whips with both main parties..

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Feb 1, 2017, 07:06 PM

Feb 2017

I was at a meeting last week at the Town Hall, packed with people concerned about Brexit, including a number of EU citizens potentially badly affected. Our city went overwhelmingly Remain. Yet of the two Oxford MPs, one, Tory Nicola Blockhead, did not accept the invitation to attend, and the other, Labour's Andrew Smith was totally opposed to Brexit in principle; supported various amendments to soften it; but said he would have to vote even for a hard Brexit, because 'the people have spoken' and 'we lost'. Depressing.

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