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| Webster | Apr 19 2017, 08:37 AM Post #1 |
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White Tuesday saw British P.M. May call for a snap election, MPs' still have to grant their approval for it to happen in early June..... (The Guardian) What’s happening? --An evergreen question, but for now designed to steer you through Wednesday’s political action. On Tuesday, Theresa May said she wanted an election on 8 June. Today she has to persuade MPs to let her have one. The Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, which was supposed to keep us from the ballot boxes until 2020, can be tipped over if two-thirds of the Commons say aye. Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour MPs to support the early election; not all Labour MPs agree with him (another evergreen statement there). The Liberal Democrats and the SNP have said they will not block it – though Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon called May’s move a “huge political miscalculation”. So let’s recklessly guess that the super-majority will be won: what next? Labour talks late on Tuesday concluded that sitting MPs should be automatically reselected, despite reports that Corbyn had been less than keen on the idea. A policy burst in recent weeks – on free school meals, minimum wage and carers’ allowance – also helps lessen the risk of a rash of party manifestos reading: “Aargh, Brexit.” The Conservative manifesto will find room for grammar schools, alongside – speculates the Sun in an interview with May – possible breaks from 2015 commitments to foreign aid spending and the pensions triple lock. The prime minister insists the election isn’t all about Brexit (except, well, it mostly is, counters Lib Dem leader Tim Farron). It’s also, says May, writing in the Scotsman, a chance to give a second independence referendum the boot – while not quite answering the question of why one vote would sow division and the other unity: As well as presenting an unfair choice to Scottish voters between two unclear outcomes, [a referendum] would create uncertainty and division in our country at a time when we need to maximise certainty and unity to get the best deal for the whole UK. For those same reasons, a UK general election now is firmly in our national interest. Not in May’s interest, it seems, will be taking part in televised debates with other party leaders. “Our answer is no,” a No 10 source told the Guardian, meaning avid viewers will be denied even the sole PM v contenders face-to-face-off that David Cameron deigned to attend in 2015. |
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| Webster | Apr 19 2017, 10:05 AM Post #46 |
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(The Guardian) The 13 MPs who voted against an early election --Here are the 13 MPs who voted against an early election. Labour Ronnie Campbell Ann Clwyd Paul Farrelly Jim Fitzpatrick Clive Lewis Fional Mactaggart Liz McInnes Dennis Skinner Graham Stringer SDLP Alasdair McDonnell Independent Lady Hermon Natalie McGarry Michelle Thomson And the two tellers for the Noes were Margaret Ritchie and Mark Durkan, who are both SDLP MPs |
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