The band with the best bandname ever: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – here with the magnificiant ‘Instant Repeater 99’. Love this song.

One of my favourite bands. From Gothenburg Sweden. The singer, Ebbot Lundberg is absolutely brilliant.

You can listen to the song here: Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Instant Repeater 99

British MPs have tonight after a nine hour long debate for the first time voted in favour of a Brexit withdrawal bill. It happened when the Parliament, House of Commons, voted by 329 votes to 299 – a majority of 30 – to approve the Prime Minister’s Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB).

At the same time, just after this historic event, Commons voted down the Prime Minister’s timeplan to get the WAB aporoved in time for UK to leave in nine days on the 31 October.

Boris Johnson, who has delivered on making the EU open the previous Withdrawal Agreement, re-negotiated a deal, removed the backstop and secured a new deal with the EU27 in three months, can add winning Parliament approval for the deal to the list – but will now face difficulties for UK to leave the EU next week.

The Prime Minister announced that he will pause the WAB legal process, talk to the EU27 Heads of State and at the same time ramp up No Deal preparations. The Brexit saga continious.

Sources: Sky News, Telegraph

The EU’s Brexit negotiator is widely regarded as having done a good job after maintaining EU unity and striking 2 deals with the UK.

Michel Barnier will lead a “U.K. Task Force” in the next European Commission, effectively continuing his work as EU Brexit negotiator into the next phase of talks on a future trading arrangement, according to a Commission official and an EU27 diplomat.

An official announcement on the new role could come as early as Tuesday, following the weekly College of Commissioners meetings on the margins of the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg.

The “U.K. Task Force” label would replace the current “Taskforce on Article 50 negotiations with the United Kingdom” (or Taskforce 50 for short) as a sign that the EU is done with the divorce phase of Brexit and is moving on to the future relationship. That will only be possible if and when the U.K. parliament and the European Parliament ratify the deal reached between London and Brussels last week which was endorsed by EU leaders on Thursday at the European Council.

One Commission official confirmed that the Commission chose the name “U.K. Task Force,” because the acronym for Task Force U.K. (TFUK) sounds like an expletive.

The new group led by Barnier — a former French minister and two-time commissioner — would be effective once the Commission officially starts its work, which is likely to happen on December 1, a month later than expected. One diplomat said the task force would not sit within any one directorate general (notably DG Trade.) Rather it will coordinate the work of several DGs. Since June, Sabine Weyand, a trusted deputy of Barnier’s, has been DG Trade’s director general.

Barnier is widely regarded as having done a good job since 2016 as Brexit negotiator. He has, by and large, maintained the unity of the 27 remaining EU countries and managed to negotiate not one, but two Brexit deals with two different U.K. governments. He had been mooted as a potential candidate for French commissioner after Emmanuel Macron’s nominee, Sylvie Goulard, was rejected by the European Parliament.