Ash Sarkar is usually a smooth performer on TV, her “I’m literally a communist” riposte to Piers Morgan went viral and launched a dozen t-shirt sales. On Marr yesterday she claimed “The idea that Corbynistas have been misty-eyed about Venezuela is largely a myth.” Unfortunately they literally were misty-eyed for the Caracas Corbynisim…
This video compilation is roll call of misty-eyed Corbynistas, including Corbyn himself. Suemas Milne, Owen Jones and Diane Abbott all lauding Venezuelan style socialism as a template for Britain. Voters are being warned…
H/T: Video compilation by Ben
Firm line from Sajid against a customs union. It’s a “complete non-starter”…
Sajid squashes renewed speculation that a general election could be on the cards this year, whether before or after the UK formally leaves the EU. A politics-weary country is unlikely to look kindly on the party that forces a fifth major vote in six years on them…
"I abhor what's gone on in Venezuela… We speak out against human rights abuses not just when it's a right-wing country, but also when it's a left-wing country" – Barry Gardiner, Shadow International Trade Secretary #Marr https://t.co/9hUuHrAlnj pic.twitter.com/OGs78pF5q2
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 3, 2019
Barry Gardiner says you have “no moral platform” if you don’t speak out against human rights abuses in left-wing countries as well as right-wing countries. He might need to have a word with his party leadership…
Sinn Fein on the Irish border: “There will be no hard border”
Leader of Sinn Fein Mary Lou McDonald tells #Marr there’s a lot of “hot air and rhetoric” surrounding the backstophttps://t.co/9DiuTY2A9j #Brexit pic.twitter.com/vQ8S3EHVYN
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 3, 2019
Even Sinn Fein are saying there won’t be a hard border in Ireland. The “hot air and rhetoric” on the backstop is coming from the EU…
#Brexit: The government will “listen very carefully” to calls to remove the Northern Irish backstop, says Health Secretary Matt Hancockhttps://t.co/LUddstfYmj #Marr pic.twitter.com/DCkxlHHmuT
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 27, 2019
Matt Hancock has given the clearest public signal yet that the Government is considering getting behind moves to remove the backstop from the deal, provided Bercow calls the appropriate amendments on Tuesday. There are rumours of a mass walkout if Bercow again abuses his position to not call a Government-backed amendment with a decent chance of securing a majority…
Irish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney on the backstop: Nobody has come up with “a pragmatic, sensible and legally sound” alternativehttps://t.co/LUddstfYmj #Marr #Brexit pic.twitter.com/Yw7uMLYpXh
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 27, 2019
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney insisted on Marr that the backstop couldn’t be changed because nobody had come up with a “pragmatic, sensible and legally sound” alternative way to avoid a hard border.
That’s despite Michel Barnier saying on Wednesday that the EU would find an “operational way of carrying out checks and controls without putting back in place a border” in the event of no deal and that his team had “worked hard to study how controls can be made paperless or decentralised”. Ireland knows there won’t be a hard border either way but won’t admit it as it will undermine their hardline position on the backstop…
Labour’s Yvette Cooper on her plan to delay #Brexit: "We can’t just carry on with a game of chicken"https://t.co/LUddstfYmj #Marr pic.twitter.com/cKZRnU3oo1
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 27, 2019
Yvette Cooper has said that she “hopes” Corbyn will come out and back her power-grab amendment on Tuesday – obviously without Labour frontbench support it’s not going through. Four years after he defeated her in Labour’s leadership election Corbyn might be about to hand her the power she never managed to win herself…
#Marr: Does Labour’s #Brexit deal need a backstop?
Shadow Brexit Sec Keir Starmer: “At this stage, any deal probably does require a backstop”https://t.co/RPprKkiZxW pic.twitter.com/jw0nXlJep1
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 20, 2019
Parliament does not have the right “to hijack #Brexit and in effect, steal the vote from the people” says International Trade Sec Liam Foxhttps://t.co/E0eKrEmh73 #Marr pic.twitter.com/uqkV1ZxnJq
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 20, 2019
Shadow #Brexit Sec Keir Starmer: Labour’s Brexit policy is now in a new phasehttps://t.co/E0eKrEmh73 #Marr pic.twitter.com/k9A4NthASm
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 20, 2019
On #PeoplesVote: If you don’t get a general election, do you then go for a People's Vote?
I would rather get a negotiated deal now, says Jeremy Corbyn#marr: https://t.co/Kyr1Li4hWc pic.twitter.com/JNVEkYgq05
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 13, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn explicitly confirmed to Marr this morning that if his no confidence vote fails and he does not get the General Election he is after, he “would rather get a negotiated deal” than back a second referendum.
Marr: “Why are you against the free movement of people?”
Corbyn: “I am not against the free movement of people.”
"In my view there should not be a second #Brexit referendum" – UK PM Theresa May says it would divide the country and it could not be held before March 29 https://t.co/oqrR38fGIw #marr pic.twitter.com/gk5nTSPsuZ
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 6, 2019
Theresa May has firmly reiterated her position against a second referendum, even if Parliament tries to play silly games with one. Parliament can pass as many motions as it likes, the bottom line is there isn’t going to be a second referendum without a Government that is willing to push one through in law…
Classic blooper from Andrew Marr as he asks May if she watched “I, Daniel Craig” on the BBC last night. Funnily enough she hadn’t…
“I have been clear with my colleagues… Two things: One, I am not going to call a snap election, and secondly I am not going to be leading the party in to the 2022 general election” Theresa May tells #marrhttps://t.co/RVlA6DlwPF pic.twitter.com/pP0nNViH16
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 6, 2019
May tells Marr she is “not going to play that game” when Marr tries to pin her down on whether she expects to be PM for a “few more months or a few more years”.[…] Read the rest
