Government shutdown & no more taxes ??

[AtW]

Good to see parliamentary sovereignty being asserted against the executive.

Duly elected representatives of the People fight unelected Mandarins!

[greenlake]

We are turning into the USA.

[Mordac]

So should the MP for North East Somerset vote to stay in the EU in alignment with the way his constituents voted?

He ought to vote in line with the Manifesto on which he stood as the said candidate for North East Somerset in the GE of 2017. As should Anna Soubry, and all the other Tory & Labour MPs who are preparing to vote against all forms of Brexit.
Don't these MPs even read their Manifestos? Don't bother to answer that, we all know the answer...

[Mordac]

If all MPs across all elected parties are supposed to do that, then why were all MPs not allowed to be part of the "negotiations"? Why were the negotiations purely based on a single party - and a party that didn't even manage to get 50% of all parliamentary seats?

+1
Excellent point. And why not involve expert negotiators from the real world as well? This is far too great an issue to leave to some civil servants who've never had to do any of this for real.

[meridian]

He ought to vote in line with the Manifesto on which he stood as the said candidate for North East Somerset in the GE of 2017. As should Anna Soubry, and all the other Tory & Labour MPs who are preparing to vote against all forms of Brexit.
Don't these MPs even read their Manifestos? Don't bother to answer that, we all know the answer...

Without looking it up, name one other pledge in either party’s manifesto.

[AtW]

[Old Greg]

He ought to vote in line with the Manifesto on which he stood as the said candidate for North East Somerset in the GE of 2017. As should Anna Soubry, and all the other Tory & Labour MPs who are preparing to vote against all forms of Brexit.
Don't these MPs even read their Manifestos? Don't bother to answer that, we all know the answer...

Was the Tory manifesto pro or anti May's deal?

[Mordac]

Was the Tory manifesto pro or anti May's deal?

May's deal didn't exist at that point. The Tory (and Labour) manifesto promised to implement the result of the referendum. Or to put it another way, both major parties stood on a platform of delivering an exit (albeit in different form) from the EU.

[meridian]

May's deal didn't exist at that point. The Tory (and Labour) manifesto promised to implement the result of the referendum. Or to put it another way, both major parties stood on a platform of delivering an exit (albeit in different form) from the EU.

My (Labour) MP was elected in 2015 with a very slim majority. She voted against triggering A50, and in 2015 made it very clear that she would campaign against Brexit, despite what it said in the manifesto.

She was re-elected with a massively increased majority.

Nobody cares what is in the manifesto, and I’m fairly certain that you don’t care about any other promises that might be in the manifesto, it just suits you to focus on this one.

[original PM]

My (Labour) MP was elected in 2015 with a very slim majority. She voted against triggering A50, and in 2015 made it very clear that she would campaign against Brexit, despite what it said in the manifesto.

She was re-elected with a massively increased majority.

Nobody cares what is in the manifesto, and I’m fairly certain that you don’t care about any other promises that might be in the manifesto, it just suits you to focus on this one.

So she thinks her job is to reject the vote of the general populace then is it?

Special.