DYSLEXIC DAVE INVENTS NEW AIRPORT

This is the sleepy village of Stanstead in Suffolk.  The population is just over 300, spread across 140 homes and definitely no airport nearby.  Yes, hot on the heels of his 'Tabilan' tweet, the grammatically challenged Dave Lammy has struck again.  The man who would be our foreign secretary managed to misspell the name of the airport he was using to attack the government...

We used to refer to Lammy as 'Daft Dave', but it's becoming increasingly apparent that he's more like a 'Dyslexic Dave'.  Some of those in the comments sensed an anti-Brexit message in Lammy's tweet.  One of them was his former Labour colleague Kate Hoey, now Baroness Hoey of course and an independent...

Kate's response was by far the most popular response to Lammy, with more than four thousand 'likes'.  It still remains to be explained by Dave and his Europhile posse how Brexit has somehow managed to create travel chaos across much of Europe and spiralling inflation across the West?

It's not Brexit, dummy.

STARMER LACKS 'CHARISMA AND ABILITY'

Leading Brexiteer and ex-Labour MP Kate Hoey told Politics Live today that Keir Starmer has neither the 'charisma or ability' to be PM.  The deputy leader of Scottish Labour predictably disagreed.  Jackie Baillie said Starmer's lengthy speech during his party conference last week set out 'clearly who he is and what he's about'.  Really?  After one hour and twenty eight minutes the truth is that no-one is any the wiser.

Click below for the clip.

Kate Hoey currently sits in the House of Lords as an independent peer, having resigned from Labour following the 2019 Brexit impasse.  She had previously served as the Labour MP for Vauxhall in London since 1989.

BERCOW WAS 'APPALLING'

Ex-Labour MP Kate Hoey* has hit out at John Bercow in an interview with GB News, calling him the 'most appalling speaker'.  Speaking to fellow Brexiteer Andrew Doyle, she described Bercow's Remain bias during the Brexit impasse as 'shocking'.

* Her correct title is Baroness Hoey, having ascended to the House of Lords last year as an independent.  Meanwhile, John Bercow's title remains John Bercow.

INSIDE THE HOUSE OF REMAIN

Brexiteers Fox and Hoey

Baroness Fox spoke in support of the government as the House of Lords debated the Internal Market Bill on Monday.  As expected, the Remainer-loaded second chamber voted heavily in favour of removing parts of the bill that overruled the EU withdrawal agreement.  More than forty Tory peers were among those who threw out these clauses in crushing defeats of 433-165 and 407-148.  Heavily outnumbered, but undeterred, new peer Fox denounced attempts to block the bill in a nine minute speech (see below).

Intriguingly the former Brexit Party MEP was flanked by Baroness Hoey, the former Labour MP and fellow Brexiteer.  While Fox is a former member of the pro-IRA Revolutionary Communist Party, Kate Hoey is a Northern Ireland protestant and Unionist.  One wore a poppy, one did not, but Fox's speech revolved around respecting the territorial sovereignty of the United Kingdom.  Great speech, odd couple, strange times...

HOEY HITS OUT AT BILL CRITICS

Former Labour MP and Brexiteer Kate Hoey has hit out at MPs planning to vote against the Internal Market Bill.  Speaking to TalkRadio's Mike Graham on Monday morning, Hoey described opposition to the bill as "the last gasp of people who have never wanted us to leave the European Union".  She also said they didn't care about Northern Ireland, adding: "If you do accept that somehow it's going to threaten the peace process by having a border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, why is it not then breaking the Good Friday Agreement to have a border down the Irish Sea?"

As an Ulster native and proud Unionist, Kate - soon to be Baroness Hoey when she joins the House of Lords - knows a thing or two when it comes to politics in Northern Ireland.

Watch the full interview below.

HIGH PRAISE FOR BRILLO

End of the road for yet another Andrew Neil vehicle

When the BBC announced 520 job cuts in its news division it was perhaps no great surprise to see Andrew Neil's show was one of the casualties.  His latest show was only commissioned last autumn and had not broadcast since March.  In recent years Neil's presence on the Beeb has become increasingly sparse.  Daily Politics was canned in 2018, This Week finished a year later and he is seldom seen at the helm of Politics Live these days.

As is always the case when there is any suggestion Andrew Neil is binned, there has been a backlash.  The BBC have stressed that they are in talks with him about a new venture, but there are rumours that the 71-year-old has been approached by other broadcasters.  Presumably ITV are one of those clamouring for his services.  We can only hope they are lining him up to replace the awful Robert Peston!

Prominent figures in journalism and across the political divide heaped praise on Neil following news of the BBC cancellation.

https://t.co/tY26mBlNYC
As @amolrajan writes: "In one particular style - forensic, unrelenting scrutiny and interrogation of those in power - @afneil is the best in the business".

— Alastair Stewart (@AlStewartOBE) July 15, 2020

In @afneil the BBC has Britain’s best interviewer. Scrapping his show is a further flashing light on the dashboard - warning us that the Corporation no longer understands what public service broadcasting looks like https://t.co/VZW3YAIzNd

— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) July 15, 2020

The cancellation of @afneil's show is great news for those in power wishing to avoid scrutiny and a shame for everyone else. https://t.co/2yRL5O8Jrf

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) July 15, 2020

The Cancel Culture Gang - who claim cancel culture doesn't exist – will be delighted Andrew Neil has been cancelled

The BBC splurges £100million on "diverse" content, then axes their No1 political journalist

Total madness!https://t.co/GwJpluYXS0

— Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) July 15, 2020

Andrew Neil is by some distance the best journalist working at the BBC - it is shocking, and stupid beyond belief, that this brain-dead corporation pays six figure salaries to mediocrities who would perish and die in the open market place and yet have no place for @afneil

— Tony Parsons (@TonyParsonsUK) July 15, 2020

If @afneil no longer on the BBC makes it much easier to stop watching ANY of their political coverage @DefundBBC Latest BBC Cuts https://t.co/im3TPwgz7T via @guidofawkes

— Kate Hoey (@CatharineHoey) July 15, 2020

Some on the hard left were less complimentary, because their little spiteful minds can only recall instances when Neil has mauled their idols.  But let's not forget that following his decimation of Jeremy Corbyn ahead of the election, Boris Johnson avoided Neil like the plague and never did sit down for an interview.  He wouldn't have refused to meet Neil if he thought his interviewer was going to give him an easy ride.

Remain campaigner Femi Izawally invoked Neil's ire with a tweet in which he labelled the broadcaster "biased and scarily right-wing".  Bad move.

We've never met or talked. You have no idea what my views are on any major issue today, tho you think you do. To call me "scarily right-wing" is inaccurate, a smear and a hard left trope. You should withdraw it. https://t.co/gOf3XQjGln

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) July 15, 2020

As for Little Owen, who has been involved in a long-running spat with Andrew Neil, some would have expected a gloating response.  However, Jones has his own problems worrying about job cuts at The Guardian.  Jones tweeted: "Andrew Neil falsely claimed that I repeatedly tried to get his BBC career cancelled.  He's still refused to withdraw this claim.  So let me put on record that I don't support this decision, while standing by holding Neil to account for his public record".

The ever classy Neil later tweeted that The Spectator was a broad church and didn't see why Jones couldn't work for the rag if he got the boot from The Guardian.

We are a broad church of many faiths and none. Paul Mason writes for us. So why not? It's up to the Editor. Not me. https://t.co/tIgtXMRvoP

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) July 18, 2020

This seems as good a time as any to revisit their famous bust-up on This Week...

On Saturday morning Neil tweeted that The Spectator was booming while other media outlets are in decline.  He notes that his newspaper now outsells weekday editions of The Guardian.  Brutal as ever.

TAKING THE KNEE NOT FOR KATE

The delightful Kate Hoey spoke to TalkRadio's Mike Graham yesterday about the Black Lives Matter insurrection and the reasons Labour got thumped in the general election.  Kate, who was the Labour MP for Vauxhall for thirty years, said she agreed with Dominic Raab's comments about 'taking the knee' and that she'd not be "taking the knee under any circumstances".  On Labour's election thrashing, Brexiteer Kate said she and others had warned the leadership about the dangers of a second referendum, but the likes of Keir Starmer pushed ahead with the policy anyway.  Listen below.

KATE CONDEMNS BBC BIAS

Former Labour MP Kate Hoey has joined in condemnation of the BBC over a series of anti-government stories that included a phoney story about PPE (see above).  The BBC retracted its story on Friday in a small correction on its website.  Kate demanded a full on-air apology...

They didn’t just report this story - they led their news bulletins on it all morning and now they slip out a short press release. They should apologise on air. #happenstoooften https://t.co/TqrjMR69d7

— Kate Hoey (@CatharineHoey) April 17, 2020

Kate also lashed out over a broadcast in which a GP was introduced as a guest, but the presenter failed to inform viewers that he was until very recently a Labour MP.  Dr Paul Williams lost his Stockton South seat to the Tories in December, but he is also the Labour candidate for Cleveland Police Commissioner in next year's elections.

Did @BBCNews know this and just not tell viewers or was their research inadequate ?

BBC News GP is Standing as Labour Candidate https://t.co/JNPTjg32vb via @guidofawkes

— Kate Hoey (@CatharineHoey) April 17, 2020

In yet another incident last week BBC News introduced a nurse to discuss concerns over PPE.  Again the Beeb failed to mention that he was a member of the Labour Party.

KATE'S NOT VOTING LABOUR EITHER

Labour's Kate Hoey appeared on a debate show last night on LBC in which she was pushed on who she would be voting for in the coming election.  Kate is not contesting her Vauxhall seat this time, but presumably she's still a member of the party.  Therefore, she answered Iain Dale's question in a very clever way, avoiding any potential expulsion from the party.  She's voting DUP in her native Northern Ireland, she says, although she stresses that if people want Brexit they should vote either Tory or Brexit Party.  Watch below.

While she didn't specifically endorse the Conservatives, several of her former colleagues have been more candid.  Ian Austin, John Woodcock, Gisela Stuart and most recently Tom Harris have all said they are voting Conservative at this election.  It's a stunning admission for one former Labour MP, but for so many it's surely unprecedented.

Corbynistas will point to several ex-Tory MPs who have said they are not voting Conservative, but there are two key differences.  Firstly, none of them have said they are voting Labour.  Secondly, they are all Remainers who know that a Tory majority will get the withdrawal agreement through Parliament.  The former Labour MPs endorsing the Conservatives include both Leavers and Remainers.  That says a lot.

Additional reading

Farewell Kate

FAREWELL KATE

I’m pro-union, I’ll do anything to make sure that the United Kingdom has Northern Ireland as an integral part of it on the same terms as any other part of the United Kingdom when we leave the EU”.

(Kate Hoey)

by Richey Edwards

Parliament has been dissolved and the gloves are off.  Dozens of MPs have either retired, bottled it or (in Labour's case) been purged.  One of those purged MPs is Kate Hoey.  She is the only Labour MP to have consistently voted in favour of Brexit (a clean break Brexit) in every single Parliamentary vote.  While many Leave voters rage about MPs going against their Leave voting constituencies, Kate Hoey actually went against a 78% Remain vote in her Vauxhall seat.  Steadfast in her lifelong Eurosceptic views, her refusal to adopt a London Labour Remain attitude put her at odds with her constituency party.  They pulled out the stops to ensure she would not be re-selected as Labour's candidate and rather than fight a losing battle, at the age of 73 Kate threw in the towel.  There was a suggestion that she may stand for the Brexit Party in the forthcoming election, but that now appears unlikely.  She referred to her troublesome local activists in her emotional farewell speech (see below).

Kate Hoey always stood apart from her comrades on the left.  While the overwhelming majority of Labour MPs hail from the metropolitan elite, Kate was an Ulster Protestant who was brought up on a farm.  This fact alone put her at odds with her fellow Marxists.  She was not ashamed to say she was British and that she didn't share their support for a united Ireland.  Despite this she managed to obtain the Labour ticket for the 1989 Vauxhall by-election following the resignation of the incumbent.  This was not without controversy as she was not the preferred candidate at local level and was foisted upon them by the National Executive Committee.  Her Labour opponent was the mother of Kate Osamor, the controversial Labour MP for Edmonton since 2015.

Despite the resentment over her appointment, Hoey went on to represent Vauxhall for an unbroken 30 year period, during which she more than doubled the Labour majority from less than 10,000 to more than 20,000 at the last election.

A keen athlete in her youth, Hoey later worked for several professional football clubs as an advisor.  She was Minister for Sport in the Blair government.  Over the years she moved away from the hard left and adopted a more libertarian ideology.  She rebelled against New Labour many times and opposed the war in Iraq, the introduction of ID cards and the smoking ban.  Her support for foxhunting also put her at odds with her metropolitan colleagues.  However, it was her Euroscepticism for which she will probably be most remembered.  She opposed both the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties and still believes that Britain will one day leave the European Union.

Farewell Kate Hoey, one of the decent ones.

Vauxhall general election result 2017

Kate Hoey (Lab) 31,576 (57.3%) +3.5%
George Turner (Lib Dem) 11,326 (20.5%) +13.6%
Dolly Theis (Con) 10,277 (18.6%) -8.7%
Gulnar Hasnain (Green) 1,152 (2.0%) -5.6%
Harini Iyengar (Women's) 539 (0.9%) New
Mark Chapman (Pirate) 172 (0.3%) -0.1%

LABOUR BOTTLE IT A THIRD TIME

As promised, Labour MPs overwhelmingly abstained in the PM's third attempt to get a general election.  Boris says he'll keep trying, but it seems that Labour are intent on paralysing Parliament for months to come.  The electorate will not forget this quickly, nor will we forget who is to blame for blocking Brexit yet again.  The longer they block an election (and Brexit), the bigger their eventual defeat will be.  They can run, but they can't hide.

Ex-Tory Remainers who joined Labour in abstaining included the usual suspects of Grieve, Hammond and Letwin.  The only Labour MP who voted for an election was, rather predictably, Kate Hoey.  Ex-Labour MPs Ian Austin, Frank Field, Ivan Lewis and John Woodcock also supported the motion, an exceptional gesture considering they will almost certainly lose their seats in an election.  Many others are clearly desperate to hold on to their gravy train seats for as long as possible.  It was no great surprise to see Anna Soubry and her shrinking number of colleagues in Change UK (or whatever they're now called) opposing the motion.

38 Labour parasites ignored the party whips and voted against the motion.  They were all Remainers, with the sole exception of chief barnacle Skinner:

Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower)

Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West)

Margaret Beckett (Derby South)

Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)

Bambos Charambalous (Enfield Southgate)

Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)

Neil Coyle (Bermondsey & Old Southwark)

Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)

Janet Daby (Lewisham East)

Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe)

David Drew (Stroud)

Jack Dromey (Birmingham Erdington)

Bill Esterson (Sefton Central)

Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme)

Preet Gill (Birmingham Edgbaston)

Rupa Huq (Ealing Central & Acton)

Ged Killen (Rutherglen & Hamilton West)

Peter Kyle (Hove)

Lesley Laird (Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath)

Dave Lammy (Tottenham)

Ian Lucas (Wrexham)

Holly Lynch (Halifax)

Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North)

Seema Malhotra (Feltham & Heston)

Rachael Maskell (York Central)

Ian Murray (Edinburgh South)
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn)
Danielle Rowley (Midlothian)
Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall)
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
Dennis Skinner (Bolsover)
Jeff Smith (Manchester Withington)
Owen Smith (Pontypridd)
Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central)
Paul Sweeney (Glasgow North East)
Matt Western (Warwick & Leamington)
Martin Whitfield (East Lothian)
Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge)

Interesting to note that this sickening list includes several MPs who are standing down at the next election, but who are clearly not in any hurry to depart the Westminster gravy train.  Also worthy of note is that all but one of Scottish Labour's MPs appears on the list, clearly fearing a wipeout at the hands of the SNP come the next election!

MANN'S REVENGE

Bassetlaw MP John Mann has announced he is leaving the House of Commons on Monday to take up his government role as their 'anti-Semitism tsar'.  It's not clear if this means he is standing down as an MP altogether, if so one of his final acts will be to vote in favour of a general election, defying the Labour whips one last time.  Hopefully he will be staying on for a wee bit longer, if only for Brexit debates where pro-Leave votes are hard to come by on the opposition benches.

When Mann takes up his new post he will probably appreciate the irony of being called a 'tsar', seeing as the original tsars were so vehemently opposed by the communists (hopefully he doesn't meet the same end as said tsars).  Having endured years of abuse from Corbyn supporters, he appears to be plotting as much damage as possible when he stands down.  In the last two days he has tweeted several times about exposing cases of sexual harassment and sexual assault he claims have been covered up by the party.

And of course one reason I know they have been sat on is that I personally raised them before, as did others, and on three complaints nothing has been done. https://t.co/S47HnVraG3

— John Mann (@JohnMannMP) October 25, 2019

Some people think they can get away with covering up sexual harassment and assault in their Party. These people are factually wrong.

— John Mann (@JohnMannMP) October 24, 2019

There are serious and credible allegations of sexual misconduct that have been sat on. I will be writing tomorrow to challenge those who have chosen to sit on them

— John Mann (@JohnMannMP) October 24, 2019

I will tomorrow be making a submission to the IIsca Enquiry on child abuse about Lambeth Council .

— John Mann (@JohnMannMP) October 24, 2019

If Mann has been aware of these cases over time then it does suggest that he too has been 'sitting on' the allegations, so he may not have the moral high ground here.  However, his decision to use this information to hurt the leadership is no great surprise, having been bombarded with abuse for the last three years from those who swear undying loyalty to the Great Leader.  Actions have consequences and former Labour MPs have been increasingly dishing out vengeance over the last year.

Ian Austin, Chris Leslie, Ivan Lewis and John Woodcock have become even more fierce in their condemnation of Corbyn since they left the party.  The recent speeches from Austin and Lewis were a joy to behold.  Woodcock, an otherwise hardcore Remainer, astonishingly voted with the government on several crucial Brexit votes last week.  His love for membership of the EU is clearly now outweighed by his hatred of Corbyn.  Luciana Berger will undoubtedly get her revenge by wrecking Labour's hopes to retake the Tory marginal of Finchley at the next election, while even Kate Hoey (still under the Labour whip) has not ruled out joining the Brexit Party and perhaps making a high profile stand against a big name Labour Remainer.  Diane Abbott's bizarre assertion yesterday that Hoey is "no longer a Labour MP" will undoubtedly have given Hoey that little bit of extra motivation to do so.  Kate Hoey versus Yvette Cooper (with Tory candidate stood down) - now that would be a very interesting contest!

LABOUR'S WITHDRAWAL 19

Boris Johnson enjoyed a rare victory on Tuesday as nineteen Labour rebels helped him to a majority of 30 on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.

This was the vote where we finally uncovered those Labour MPs who had postured about supporting Brexit, but had yet to deliver.  They finally defied the whips and the hard left threats of McDonnell and Lansman.  The nineteen were as follows.

There were some surprises here, in particular the names of Mike Hill, Jo Platt and Lisa Nandy.  There were also some notable absences.  Despite flirting with the notion of a Brexit deal for months now, Stevie Kinnock backed out and voted against the bill.  Two-faced Lucy Powell also voted against the bill, while Justin Madders and Yvonne Fovargue abstained.  Hardcore Brexiteer Kate Hoey also abstained from the vote, but she never backed May's deal either and she is less likely to back Johnson's deal given her Protestant Northern Ireland background.  It's complicated.

Sadly, most of the 19 Labour rebels reverted back to form and voted down the timetable for the bill they had just voted for.  It won't spare them awful abuse from Remainers on social media though.  Only Barron, Fitzpatrick, Flint and Mann backed up their initial vote, with Kate Hoey providing the fifth Labour vote.

The PM has now put the bill on hold, for motives unknown, a decision that led Donald Tusk to announce his intention to extend Article 50 (collective groan).  Even die hard supporters of Boris Johnson are now beginning to ask serious questions about his apparent lack of countermeasures and the now strongly suspected absence of a masterplan that would have got us out next week.  A general election between now and the next Brexit deadline of January 31st is now inevitable.  The problem for Boris is that he is going into this election having failed to deliver Brexit and as such the Brexit Party will still be in play.  He simply has to swallow his pride (if he has any left) and cut a deal with Nigel Farage.  The Brexit Party can take out Labour MPs in the north of England, but it can only do so if the Tories stand aside.  The Brexit Party can then stand down elsewhere, in order to allow the Tories a free run in Labour marginals, particularly in the south of England.  It's a no brainer, but having seen the debacle of the last few weeks, we have to ask if there are any brains on either side of the Commons.

THE LABOUR SIX

It's not clear at the moment what the next step will be.  Will the dreaded letter be sent and if not, what then?  What is clear is that despite various MPs arguing that this amendment is not about frustrating Brexit, one only has to look at the reaction of Remainers to it.

Credit where it is due there were six Labour MPs who opposed this amendment.  They were:

Kevin Barron
Ronnie Campbell
Jim Fitzpatrick
Caroline Flint
Kate Hoey
John Mann

Former Labour MPs Ian Austin, Frank Field, Ivan Lewis and John Woodcock also opposed the amendment as did the currently suspended Kelvin Hopkins.

Four Labour MPs abstained, as follows:

Sarah Champion
Rosie Cooper
Melanie Onn
Derek Twigg

HOEY MOCKED BY CLP

Kate Hoey has been the Labour MP for Vauxhall in London since 1989.  During those thirty years her majority has only dipped below 10,000 once (in 2005).  Her majority is currently 20,250 - the highest Labour majority in that seat since it was created in 1950.  She won this record majority in 2017, despite being an ardent Brexiteer representing a 78% Remain-voting constituency.  That's impressive.

How does her local constituency Labour party (CLP) thank her for three decades of service?  By giving her a unanimous vote of no confidence and mocking her on Twitter.

Let’s hope Kate’s retirements plans don’t include opening a restaurant.

She’ll probably not bother washing her hands before cooking your food if someone told her it was an EU law. https://t.co/0BaZwGLJZG

— Vauxhall Labour (@VauxhallLabour) August 10, 2019

"Pathetic" replied Hoey.  Indeed.

THE LABOUR ONE

The latest Parliamentary attempt to stop Brexit from happening was voted through by 315-274.  The cross-party motion, proposed by Tory Alistair Burt and Labour's Hilary Benn, was designed to prevent the next PM 'proroguing' Parliament in order to ensure we leave in October.  16 of Burt's Tory colleagues voted with him in securing the motion, including the usual suspects Dominic Grieve, Sam Gyimah, Justine Greening, Oliver Letwin and Guto Bebb.  Margot James quit her ministerial post in order to back the motion, but given that she'll be out of a job next week anyway (should Boris win) it's no great sacrifice for her.  There were numerous abstentions and absences for the vote, most notably Ken Clarke.

The DUP voted against the motion, but there were only two other opposition MPs who voted with them.  One was Ian Austin, the former Labour MP, and the other is still a Labour MP (for now).  Can you guess who it was?

That's right, despite all the bluster of Labour's recent 'Leave converts' the only Labour MP to vote down the motion was the one and only Kate Hoey.

Rotherham MP Sarah Champion said only three days ago that she would back no deal if it came to it.  "We have to leave" she told Politics Live.  Two days later she voted in favour of a motion that would block no deal.  Disgraceful.  What of Caroline Flint, Melanie Onn, Ruth Smeeth and Stephanie Peacock?  All of whom have recently voiced support for the Leave mandate.  Every one of them supported the motion.  Disgusting.

It just goes to show that no matter how they talk, you just can't trust a Labour MP.  If Britain does leave in October and a general election is the next step, here's to a Parliamentary breakthrough for the Brexit Party across the Labour heartlands.  Bye bye two-faced pretend Leave converts and bye bye unapologetic Remainers like Yvette Cooper and Mary Creagh.

BREXIT BLOCKERS DEFEATED

The first attempt by Remainer MPs to stop Brexit from happening in October failed this evening.  The motion, supported by Labour, the SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid and Green MP Caroline Lucas, was defeated by 11 votes.

As the Tories cheered the result an angry Corbyn shouted across the chamber "You won't be cheering in September".  Quite what he meant by that is anyone's guess.  Perhaps he meant to say October, that would have made more sense.

Eight Labour MPs voted against the motion, crucially 17 abstained.  Several opponents of a second referendum were among the abstentions including Ruth Smeeth, Melanie Onn and Gareth Snell.  However, despite all her recent bluster, Lisa Nandy supported the motion.  Note to people of Wigan - remember this.

Ian Blackford was furious about Labour's rebels and abstentions, directly blaming them for the motion's defeat in a furious tweet.  "Unforgivable" he chuntered.  Thankfully all ten DUP members were present and duly voted against the motion.

The eight Labour rebels who opposed Labour's motion were:

Kevin Barron
Ronnie Campbell
Jim Fitzpatrick
Caroline Flint
Stephen Hepburn
Kate Hoey
John Mann
Graham Stringer

On the Tory benches there were ten rebels that supported Labour's motion.  All but three represent Leave-voting constituencies:

Guto Bebb - constituency voted Leave 52%
Ken Clarke
Jonathan Djanogly - constituency voted Leave 53%
Justine Greening
Dominic Grieve
Sam Gyimah - constituency voted Leave 54%
Phillip Lee - constituency voted Leave 53%
Oliver Letwin - constituency voted Leave 51%
Antoinette Sandbach - constituency voted Leave 52%
Caroline Spelman - constituency voted Leave 59%

Make no mistake, this won't be their last attempt to stop us leaving in October.  They will be back again soon with more of the same and the Speaker will be only too happy to oblige them...

HOEY BLASTS COLLEAGUES

Amid a sea of virtue signalling hate-filled Labour morons, there is Kate Hoey...

We'll be watching out for the Labour MPs joining up with the protests later today and will name and shame in due course.  Corbyn himself will address the crowds, with the likes of Emily Thornberry, Dave Lammy and Richard Burgon expected to be among many MPs in attendance.  Labour is dead set on destroying our relationship with the US, wrecking any hopes of a post-Brexit trade deal and turning our nation into a global pariah.  They must be called out at every opportunity.

NO COMPARISON

Remoaners furious at Labour's expulsion of Alastair LOSER'S VOTE Campbell have hit back in a trademark hissy fit by calling for Brexiteer Kate Hoey to be expelled too.  On what basis, you may ask?  Did she campaign for a rival party?  No.  Has she indicated she voted for another party?  No.  They are calling for her sacking on the basis that she campaigned with Nigel Farage during the referendum campaign three years ago!

Talk about clutching at straws.  The referendum was not fought on party lines and MPs were free to campaign with whichever campaign group they desired.  Kate Hoey chose Grassroots Out, a group supported by the likes of Tories Peter Bone and Liam Fox, George Galloway and, of course, Nigel Farage (then of UKIP).  She later expressed support for Leave Means Leave, a group set up after the referendum to campaign for the Leave mandate to be implemented.  Again, this was a non-partisan cross-party group, a fact pointed out by Hoey in the following tweet.

Why are Labour remoaners not screaming for the expulsion of Gisela Stuart, the now former MP?  She not only supported Vote Leave - she chaired it.  No, the real reason they want rid of Hoey is because she is the only Labour MP that has voted in favour of Brexit at every single opportunity since 2016.  Ultimately they want her replaced by a Remain candidate, giving themselves yet another Brexit blocking vote in the Commons.

These outlandish and unfounded calls to expel Kate Hoey are just more sour grapes, albeit with a long-term Brexit-blocking purpose in mind.

LABOUR BACK REMAIN

Seeing that John Bercow selected only Remain options tonight, it certainly wasn't his intention to see all of them defeated.  Hilarious scenes, though it's doubtful he saw the funny side.

A majority of Labour MPs voted in favour of each option, the breakdown as follows;

Clarke motion:  Remain in customs union - 230 Labour for, 10 against

Boles motion:  Remain in customs union and single market - 185 Labour for, 25 against

Kyle/Wilson motion:  Second referendum - 203 Labour for, 24 against

Cherry motion:  Revoke Article 50 - 121 Labour for, 18 against

Only five Labour MPs opposed all four motions.  Surely by now these names will be familiar...

Ronnie Campbell

Stephen Hepburn

Kate Hoey

John Mann

Graham Stringer

Compare this paltry figure with the number of Labour MPs who voted in favour of all four motions - a whopping 85!  Clearly these MPs were so desperate to overturn the referendum result they wanted a majority for at least one of the options.  Those representing Leave constituencies are in bold...

Rushanara Ali

Rosena Allin-Khan

Adrian Bailey - West Bromwich West 69% Leave

Roberta Blackman-Woods

Paul Blomfield

Ben Bradshaw

Kevin Brennan

Lyn Brown

Chris Bryant - Rhondda 60% Leave

Karen Buck

Richard Burden - Birmingham Northfield 62% Leave

Ruth Cadbury

Bambos Charalambous

Neil Coyle

Stella Creasy

Marsha De Cordova

Thangam Debbonaire

Emma Dent Coed

Anneliese Dodds

David Drew

Angela Eagle

Maria Eagle

Clive Efford - Eltham 52% Leave

Chris Elmore - Ogmore 59% Leave

Bill Esterson

Paul Farrelly - Newcastle-under-Lyme 62% Leave

Vicky Foxcroft

James Frith - Bury North 54% Leave

Hugh Gaffney

Ruth George - High Peak 51% Leave

Preet Kaur Gill

Roger Godsiff

Helen Goodman - Bishop Auckland 61% Leave

Kate Green

Lilian Greenwood

John Grogan - Keighley 53% Leave

Fabian Hamilton

Harriet Harman

Mark Hendrick - Preston 56% Leave

Rupa Huq

Sarah Jones - Croydon Central 50.3% Leave

Peter Kyle

Lesley Laird

Clive Lewis

Holly Lynch - Halifax 59% Leave

Steve McCabe

Conor McGinn - St Helens North 58% Leave

Alison McGovern

Shabana Mahmood

Sandy Martin - Ipswich 56% Leave

Rachael Maskell

Christian Matheson

Stephen Morgan - Portsmouth South 52% Leave

Ian Murray

Chi Onwurah

Kate Osamor

Albert Owen - Ynys Môn 51% Leave

Teresa Pearce - Erith & Thamesmead 55% Leave

Matthew Pennycook

Jess Phillips - Birmingham Yardley 60% Leave

Luke Pollard - Plymouth, Sutton & Devonport 54% Leave

Stephen Pound

Faisal Rashid - Warrington South 51% Leave

Steve Reed

Rachel Reeves - Leeds West 53% Leave

Matt Rodda

Danielle Rowley

Chris Ruane - Vale of Clwyd 57% Leave

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Virendra Sharma

Barry Sheerman - Huddersfield 52% Leave

Andy Slaughter

Jeff Smith

Karin Smyth

Alex Sobel

Paul Sweeney

Gareth Thomas

Stephen Timms

Stephen Twigg

Keith Vaz - Leicester East 54% Leave

Matt Western

Alan Whitehead

Martin Whitfield

Phil Wilson - Sedgefield 59% Leave

Mohammed Yasin - Bedford 52% Leave

Bear in mind there is another list of Remainer MPs stemming from these votes.  They are so extreme that they cannot bring themselves to accept any motions that allow this country even to partially leave the EU - so the Clarke and Boles motions were a no-no for them.  They'll never vote for May's deal either, perhaps not even when staring no deal in the face!  There were only six of them, but that's still one more than there were Brexiteers.  They all voted in favour of a second referendum and revoking Article 50...

Dave Lammy - abstained on Clarke/Boles

Owen Smith - voted against Clarke/Boles

Jo Stevens - voted against Clarke/Boles

Wes Streeting - abstained on Clarke/Boles - Ilford North 53% Leave 

Paul Williams - voted against Clark/Boles - Stockton South 58% Leave

Daniel Zeichner - abstained on Clarke, voted against Boles

Labour's behaviour during this process continues its truly shameful trajectory.