UK Politics Thread

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MPs will vote shortly to approve legislation that will pass the EU-UK post-Brexit deal into UK law.

Parliament was recalled to put the agreement into UK law, one day before the UK stops following EU rules.

Proceedings in the House of Commons started at 09:30 GMT with a vote expected around 14:30 GMT

The EU (Future Relationship) Bill will then pass to the House of Lords for their approval.

Once both Houses have agreed to the bill, the Queen will be asked to give her consent, known as Royal Assent.

EU bosses officially signed the agreement in Brussels earlier - it has been flown to London by the RAF for Boris Johnson to sign.

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Lovely story on the BBC today about how Rory Bremner ( supreme UK impersonator) unknowingly thwarted a Eurosceptic coup against John Major in 1993. (even more lovely if you were a remainer....)

Bremner was wanting to see if his John Major voice was good enough to fool anyone, so he phoned up senior Tory MPs to test it- as you would. At the time the top Eurosceptic MP Sir Richard Body was planning to challenge Major's leadership at the next Tory conference, when he received a 'frantic' call from Major, begging for support, as did other MPs. Body then changed his mind and called his dogs off, not realising he had been spoofed, and history might well have been altered. 26 more years of EU membership followed, along with the Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May and Johnson governments

When the mistake was realised there was a row between Westminster and Channel 4, the calls were never broadcast and Ch4 gave an undertaking that any future calls would require the permission of the C4 CEO- then Michael Grade.

Rory Bremner had no idea about this at the time, and described the calls as being like safe cracking "suddenly the doors open and you're in"

Sir Richard wrote to Major apologising for being taken in, who in turn ticked the note twice and added "Good".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55477424

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MPs have overwhelmingly approved the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU in a parliamentary vote.

A bill bringing the deal into UK law was backed by the Commons by 521 to 73 votes after Parliament was recalled.

The majority of Labour MPs are thought to have voted for the agreement after leader Sir Keir Starmer said a "thin deal was better than no deal".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55478513

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I suspect Theresa has forgotten to take her medication.

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Meanwhile far up north...

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Boris Johnson's father applies for French citizenship.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55499773

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b1781323.html


France, which very much remains a member, banned pulse fishing within its territorial waters in the summer of 2019, months after the EU reached a deal enabling member states to immediately ban the practice within their coastal waters.

The move came amid anger among French fishermen, who said the practice by their Dutch counterparts – who pioneered the practice – leads to unsustainable stock depletions.

What’s pulse fishing’s legal status in the EU?

While Britain lags behind France in banning pulse fishing, it is only marginally ahead of the EU itself, which is set to implement its own ban in July, though it will apparently allow an exemption for six boats following pressure from the Dutch fishing industry.

The bloc had previously allowed member states to equip up to five per cent of their vessels with pulse fishing equipment.