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Lords voting: Conservative (241), DUP (4), Labour (178), Liberal Democrats (96),
Ulster Unionist Party (2) UK Independence Party (1) Green Party (1) Plaid Cymru (1)
Non-affiliated (29) Independents (6) Crossbench 183
Commons [650 seats]
HM Government: Conservative Party (365)
HM Most Loyal Opposition: Labour Party (203) Scottish National Party (48) Liberal Democrats (11) Alliance APNI (1)
Sinn Féin (7) (abstentionist) Plaid Cymru (4) Green Party (1) SDLP (2) Democratic Unionist Party (8)
Vacant: Vacant (0)
Speaker: Speaker (1)
More worrying, the Irish Parliament:
Fianna Fail 38, Sinn Fein 37, Fine Gael 35, Green 12, Labour 6, Social Democrats 6
Pending (and then confirmed) news
- 2017-09-24
Germany has no Government after failure to form coalition
- 2017-12-14 FCC Net neutrality vote goes
AGAINST
- 2017-12-14 Next 'Brexit' summit in EU -
little to no progress
- 2017-11-20
Temporary protected status - 57,000 Haitians to leave by 2019-05-20
- 2017-11-06 Temporary protected status -
2,500 Nicaraguans to leave by 2019-01-05
- 2018-01-08
Temporary protected status - 200,000 Salvadorans - to leave by 2019-09-09
- 2018-01-31 Temporary protected status - 7,000 Syrians - to (provisionally) leave by
2019-09-30
- 2018-04-26 Temporary Protected Status - 9,000 Nepalis - to leave by 2019-06-24
- 2018-05-04
Temporary
protected status - 57,000 Hundurans - to leave by 2020-01-05
- 2017-12-21 Brexit date
set at 2019-03-29
23:00:00Z
by Law (with change possible!)
- 2017-12-23 Next phase of
Brexit
talks in March 2018!
- 2018-01-08 At the end of January
2018, formal negotiations due to begin on a transition period after Brexit.
- 2018-01-08
EU wants finalised 'Brexit' agreement by October 2018 (!)
- 2018-01-11 Brent Crude tops $70 per
barrel for first time in ~4 years.
- 2018-01-12 US Dollar (USD) very weak
against major currencies. Accelerates decline. 14% decline in one year.
- 2018-01-12
Trade deficit between China and USA hits $300bn record for 2017. ~$1000
per person per year. (+14%, same as the decline in the USD)
- 2018-02-05 Jerome H. Powell
installed as Fed. Chairman
- 2018-02-05 Largest points drop ever
in DJIA
- 2018-02-07 German coalition finally
sealed
- 2018-02-08 USA Gov't funding
runs out (again)
- 2018-03-05 DACA program(me)
supposedly ends
- 2018-05-12 Iranian nuclear deal
renewal due (over-ridden by Trump prior to this date)
Last
year, Trump directed the Commerce Department to investigate whether
automotive imports pose a threat to national security, with a report
due no later than 2019-02-17. If the report finds cause for
concern (as everybody expects), it would give him the authority to
impose tariffs within 90 days. He has already proposed a 25% tariff
on imported autos.
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