Theresa May Takes Her Darkest, Most Desperate Turn Yet

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4. As Muriel says, it's not passed yet.

The most recent vote was the Second Reading in the House of Commons. Bills get batted backward and forward between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, committee stages, etc. before finally becoming Acts and passing into law through Royal Assent. The current state of affairs and the stages to come are set out here:

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/europeanunionwithdrawal.html

The next stage is consideration by a Committee of the Whole House (of Commons).

There's hope that serious concerns will be raised in the Lords (the reviewing chamber which will also be bypassed by the proposed legislation; the Tories don't have a majority there, but I'm not holding my breath for the Labour Lords to put up concerted opposition), which may make some amendments of its own, though how meaningful they'll be is another matter.

A number of us saw this coming from the moment it was proposed, and apart from the idiocy of Brexit as a whole, it was a major objection. It's also likely to grab and centralize powers over matters until now devolved to the Scottish, Welsh and Irish assemblies.