How Do They Vote On December 11Th

[emmie]

On Brexit MP's are asked to say yes or no to the deal on the table, do
they do a secret ballot and if so how do we know who voted for
what.

[Ken4155]

If anyone would care to do a link, there's a helpful little piece on page 5 of today's D Mirror explaining how she can/cannot get the deal through.

[dannyk13]

As things stand at the moment a no vote is likely.

[Jackdaw33]

Simple majority. If 300 vote Yes and 301 vote No then the Noes win.

[retrocop]

ken
Is this the link?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/how-mp-vote-brexit-how-13589749

[emmie]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/

not sure if what you are asking in in here but its uptodate

[Old_Geezer]

gulli wishful thinking again. No Tory party is going to call an election, especially after their last attempt. And the fall out from trying to renege on the referendum result would be disastrous; both for the country, and for untrustworthy politicians and their parties. And the EU confirms we're going out anyway. (If we're stupid we can ask for an extension so there's more time (and money) to be wasted before facing up to the task. But that's it.)

[emmie]

how soon will we know the vote?

[Ken4155]

Neither, but thanks both JD and Emmie. The piece i refer to is actually a chart of sorts showing how, if none of her colleagues rebel and the DUP stay on side, she will get the necessary votes (326). However, it is more than anticipated that the DUP are to vote against her so, whether or not her party rally round, she cannot possibly get the deal through.

[Ken4155]

^
Not JD but retro, sorry.

[emmie]

lets hope the chinless wonders in the Tory party who have squeaked a lot but done nothing will cast their vote to a No Deal. I am hoping that come 11th December it will be just that.

[Jackdaw33]

// if none of her colleagues rebel and the DUP stay on side,\\

and pigs might fly.

[emmie]

is there a specific time they will vote?

[Buenchico]

MPs vote, quite literally, with their feet. They have to get up out of their seats and proceed to the correct division lobby in the House:
https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/business/divisions/

You can see how each MP voted in a division on the Hansard website:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/Divisions?house=commons

There are also independently run websites which let you search by your postcode (to find votes by your local MP), by an MP's name or by particular topics of interest. e.g.
https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/

[Old_Geezer]

If they vote with their feet, does that mean most get two votes ?

[youngmafbog]

It will be interesting.

I wonder how many MP's, from all ides of the house, will wake up and look at how their constituents voted rather than how they feel.

Ignoring the electorate can, and no doubt will be for the arrogant, a career ender. I have no doubt many will want to punish Treason and her cohorts if they push this through.

[Buenchico]

No, O_G. Any MP who's recently been speaking will almost certainly have put his foot in his mouth ;-)

[Zacs-Master]

YMB,The results of the EU referendum weren’t counted by parliamentary constituency, so we don’t know for sure how constituencies voted but Professor Chris Hanretty combined official results and the BBC data with statistical methods and came up with some fairly surprising results.

His concuslions show that while the national result of the referendum was relatively close, with 52% voting Leave and 48% voting Remain, a much larger majority of parliamentary seats voted to Leave – with 64% of seats in Great Britain voting Leave.

So if MP's were to vote in accirdance with their constituencies, it should be a firm Leave. But I doubt MPs will be 'loyal' in this way.

[Old_Geezer]

As you say, it was a nationwide vote, and therefore the MPs have a duty to be loyal to the nation in this scenario.

[Kromovaracun]

How many times have we all been certain that Theresa May was toast? Only last week it seemed likely that she would be out within days.

I confess I can't really see a way out for her in parliament myself, but she must have known this would be a problem well in advance and have some kind of strategy for it. One theory (expressed by Robert Peston) is that she actually plans to lose the vote and rally support for some kind of re-vote once MPs are staring down the barrel of no-deal. Which could of course work but is risky beyond belief and has plenty of pitfalls. It could also be that she has something on a sufficient number of MPs to swing them, but the DUP's recent disloyalty would suggest otherwise.

I have no idea what's going to happen on Dec 11th. Thinking about it makes me queasy.

[ToraToraTora]

"How Do They Vote On December 11Th" - well hopefully the vertibrates among them will vote with UK, ie reject the non deal. I just hope there are enough of them.