division_name: European Union (Withdrawal) Act &#8212; [9th Allotted Day]
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b1020.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House approves for the purposes of section 13(1)(b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the negotiated withdrawal agreement laid before the House on Monday <phrase class="date" code="2019-11-26">26 November</phrase> 2018 with the title &#8216;Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community&#8217; and the framework for the future relationship laid before the House on Monday <phrase class="date" code="2019-11-26">26 November</phrase> 2018 with the title &#8216;Political Declaration setting out the framework for the future relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom&#8217;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1025.8/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;would have legal force in international law and&#8230;be relevant and cognisable in the interpretation of the&#8230;Agreement&#8230;albeit they do not alter the fundamental meanings&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1027.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;for regulatory purposes GB is essentially treated as a third country by NI for goods passing from GB into NI.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1027.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;as much an instrument of pain to the European Union as&#8230;to the United Kingdom.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-12-03">3 December</phrase> 2018; Vol. 650, c. 555.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1035.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is time that they grew up and got real.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1035.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There is nothing to see here.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-12-03">3 December</phrase> 2018; Vol. 650, c. 557-563.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1035.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Therefore, despite statements in the Protocol that it is not intended to be permanent, and the clear intention of the parties that it should be replaced by alternative, permanent arrangements, in international law the Protocol would endure indefinitely until a superseding agreement took its place, in whole or in part, as set out therein.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1035.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There are numerous references in the Protocol to its temporary nature but there is no indication of how long such temporary arrangements could last.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1035.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;GB is essentially treated as a third country by NI for goods passing from GB into NI&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1035.0/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Protocol appears to assume that the negotiations will result in an agreement.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1036.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There is no way the UK will negotiate a trade deal with the EU by December 2020. Even 2022 is optimistic. Mid-2020s more likely.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1036.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As a matter of international law, no there is not&#8212;it would endure indefinitely, pending a future agreement being arranged&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-12-03">3 December</phrase> 2018; Vol. 650, c. 553.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1037.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it is the duty of the parties to negotiate a superseding agreement. That must be done using best endeavours, pursuant to Article 184 of the Withdrawal agreement. This is subject also to the duty of good faith, which is both implied by international law, and expressly created by Article 5 of the Withdrawal Agreement&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1037.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The duty of good faith and to use best endeavours is a legally enforceable duty. There is no doubt that it is difficult to prove.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1037.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;definitely, 100%, going to happen&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1037.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I have heard those concerns and I will now do everything I possibly can to secure further assurances&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1037.0/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Prime Minister has been clear that the vote will take place when she believes she has the legal assurances that Parliament needs that the backstop will not be permanent.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-12-10">10 December</phrase> 2018; Vol. 651, c. 25-84.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1037.0/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;very difficult to support the deal without changes to the backstop&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1039.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The European Council also said that, if the backstop were nevertheless to be triggered, it would only apply temporarily, unless and until it is superseded by a subsequent agreement&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1039.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;they do not alter the fundamental meaning of its provisions as I advised them to be on <phrase class="date" code="2019-11-13">13 November</phrase> 2018.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1048.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we will not have truly left the European Union if we are not in control of our own laws.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1048.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national interest.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1061.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This was one of those awful periods which recur in our history, when the noble British nation seems to fall from its high estate, loses all trace of sense and purpose, and appears to cower&#8230;frothing pious platitudes&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1063.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;for regulatory purposes GB is essentially treated as a third country by NI for goods passing from GB into NI.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1066.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;should not be afraid to put that deal to the public.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1073.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if it becomes clear by the end of 2021 that the European Union will not agree to remove the Northern Ireland backstop, the United Kingdom will treat the indefinite continuation of the backstop as a fundamental change of circumstances&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1076.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1078.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;won&#8217;t ever be as good as it is today.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1078.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;like ripping all the wires out of the back of a huge mainframe, and then when you are standing there with all these wires, it will take an awful lot of time to rewire us into a different trading system.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1078.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we are trying to rebuild what we may have taken apart.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am sick and tired of being told I didn&#8217;t know what I was voting for. I knew exactly what I was voting for.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Britain is not facing an economic crisis. It is confronting a deep political crisis. Parliament has brought this on the country. It voted overwhelmingly to hold a referendum. The public were told they would decide.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;ultimately it will be the judgment of the British people in the referendum&#8230;You will have to judge what is best&#8230;Your decision. Nobody else&#8217;s. Not politicians&#8217;. Not Parliament&#8217;s. Not lobby groups&#8217;. Not mine. Just you. You, the British people, will decide&#8230;It will be your decision whether to remain in the EU on the basis of the reforms we secure&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;or whether we leave.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;After the uprising of the 17th June</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">The Secretary of the Writers&#8217; Union</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/14" pwmotiontext="yes">Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/15" pwmotiontext="yes">Stating that the people</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/16" pwmotiontext="yes">Had forfeited the confidence of the government</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/17" pwmotiontext="yes">And could win it back only</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/18" pwmotiontext="yes">By redoubled efforts.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/20" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Would it not be easier</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/21" pwmotiontext="yes">In that case for the government</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/22" pwmotiontext="yes">To dissolve the people</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1086.0/23" pwmotiontext="yes">And elect another?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1087.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Westminster parliament has played its part in making amends, but without the carrot and stick of European institutions would we enjoy the level of protection from discrimination that we now possess?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1091.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will unleash an unprecedented level of disillusionment in British politics which will be unparalleled in our history&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1094.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;An enormous effort by thousands of hardworking civil servants has been made to ensure that if we leave the EU without a deal, &#8216;crashing out&#8217; over a &#8216;cliff-edge&#8217; is simply not going to be an option, and it is purely a political decision not to make this clear to the public and nervous backbench MPs. But if the Government was frank with Parliament and the country&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1094.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;what justification would be left for its disastrous Withdrawal Agreement? What would Remainers do without a Project Fear? They would need to think up convincing positive arguments for staying in the EU, something that has so far proved beyond them.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1098.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;not a single job will be lost&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1102.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the friends and sponsors of the new Europe&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1102.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;must champion its right to live and shine.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1107.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am working for a Brexit right for North Dorset that will support business, protect jobs and workers&#8217; rights, promote local farming, safeguard the environment and give opportunities for our young.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1108.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;can lead to a spectrum of different outcomes&#8230;as well as checks and controls&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1114.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am not against the free movement of people.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1116.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;subject to changes being made in the Withdrawal Agreement and in the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol so that the UK has the right to terminate the Protocol without having to secure the agreement of the EU.&#8221;&#8212;(Mr Baron.)</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1116.6/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b1116.6/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 24, Noes 600.</p>