Feels Like the first Time.

For the first time in my dim 5 watt memory, it seems that Parliament have actually debated something and come up with a decision.

In previous decades the incumbent party have been so strong that their motions tend to carry with no interference.

The May Government is so weak it had to listen yesterday as the House of Commons actually debated and voted on several amendments and come to a sensible conclusion. And no-one could predict how it would go. This was a proper debate.

Just how the House was designed to work.

All the stupid amendments were defeated and the sensible one (amending or removing the backstop) was carried.

So, Tessie May goes back to Brussels with a clear mandate to sort the backstop issue. Let's see how that goes.

Of course EU representatives were on the news last night and this morning saying the backstop is not up for negotiation. But that's a negotiating standpoint, just like we say we are prepared to leave without a deal.

Somewhere in between those two is where the agreement lies.

I just hope Tessie doesn't slide on some other part of the agreement so we have to go through this whole rigmarole another time. But her negotiating skills seem weak, so she could come back with an even worse deal, who knows.