New day, new challenges, same as the old challenges.
With just 10 days left until the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, the divorce is again in disarray as U.K. politicians argue over whether to leave with a deal, exit without a deal or hold another referendum.
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said a vote should not be allowed on Monday as the same issue had been discussed on Saturday when opponents turned Johnson's big Brexit day into a humiliation.
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Bercow said the government could still secure ratification for the Brexit deal by Oct. 31 if it had the numbers in Parliament.
But the Speaker's decision means that the government will have to try to push on with the legislation needed for ratification that opponents are plotting to wreck with amendments that would destroy Johnson's deal.
How to translate all of this so it makes a lick of sense? Difficult, but I will try.
The extension was asked for since parliament wanted to first draft legislation agreeing to withdraw from the EU if they accept a deal. Stupid, but Brexit is stupid, and we have discussed this all before.
What wasn't included in the quote I gave was the government's plan to hold a vote on the withdrawal agreement inside of three days. Special note is that the legislation has not even been written yet. What was in the quote was the clear intent of many parties to sink this legislation by adding contingencies and amendments to the bill so as to make it impossible to ratify the Brexit deal. That it is a rushed bill that no one is yet able to see makes it even more controversial and likely to fail.
To avoid this failure, and to try and force parliament to put their votes on the record as to whether or not they accept the Brexit deal, BoJo has tried to put the matter to vote. Except that Bercow says that parliamentary rules mean that he cannot present the same deal over and over again until it gets the result he wants.
Problem with this ruling is that Bercow has undermined it by saying that it actually can be presented if BoJo gets enough votes for it to pass, but they can't take the vote to find out if it will pass or not. Also problematic is that this is a ruling to stop the bill form being presented over and over again, but the Saturday session actually never voted on the deal since it was preempted by this new silly legislation plan to make a law that says that agreeing to the Brexit plan means that they actually will follow the plan if they agree.
Shorter version: the extra and unnecessary bill that is being set up to fail spectacularly will have to go forward before parliament gets the chance to vote again on whether or not to accept the Brexit plan, even though there has been no first vote on this particular plan. The bill is being fast-tracked, further harming the chances of it succeeding. Another extension has been asked for by BoJo, but in a way that indicates that he himself does not want an extension, and the rushed bill is to make the extension moot, even though it is almost certainly not going to pass. The rest of the EU is confused, and has not decided whether or not to grant an extension, mostly because all of the UK's games have made it unclear if the extension is wanted, warranted, or will accomplish anything since parliament is trying to sink the withdrawal bill, and by extension the Brexit deal, with all their might.
So it is still the same, but kind of different, like seeing a chipped and worn coat of ugly paint and fixing it by throwing a thinned-out coat of the same ugly paint over top without bothering to remove the existing chips and wear.