Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was beaten down for an amazing, unprecedented, pitiful third time by the British Parliament.
London - Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was beaten down for an amazing, unprecedented, pitiful third time by the British Parliament on Friday, with all bets off now on when or how the United Kingdom will leave the European Union.
May said, "I fear we are reaching the limits of this process in this House. This House has rejected no deal, it has rejected no Brexit, on Wednesday it rejected all the variations of the deal on the table and today it has rejected approving the withdrawal agreement alone." A few thousand pro-Brexit demonstrators descended on London's Parliament Square to protest the delay. Some took part in a 270-mile "Leave Means Leave" march that started a week ago in the north of England.
Recall: Johnson once described May's deal as something akin to donning a "suicide vest," but on Friday said that not voting for it posed the "risk of being forced to accept an even worse version of Brexit or losing Brexit altogether." The withdrawal agreement also includes the controversial "Irish backstop," an ironclad guarantee to preserve the open, invisible border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - with trade-offs that have been a stopping point in the past.
European diplomats watched the British proceedings with increasing alarm - yes, apparently it was still possible for them to get more worried - and were hashing out the day-after scenarios for a disorderly Brexit.
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