I’ve been on the March To Leave for a week, and just got a day off to visit family and give my plates of meat a rest. I’m back on the march tomorrow, so no time for a big write up yet. Here is my simple summary, as delivered to ITN news two days ago, and below, some more complex analysis of the current situation from Chris Pearson on twitter

4. Which means EU dates become irrelevant and we still leave on 29 March.
5. Unless, that is, Remainers sieze control of Govt business from the back benches and across party?
6. But can they? To stop UK leaving on 29 March requires primary legislation – it is the law if the land.

7. To do so would set a precedent effectively trashing 400 years of parliamentary democracy. Unwise.
8. The Conservatives must have finally realised two key facts…the WA is truly dead and …
9. To force it through as a Fake Brexit, pro-EU, Remain Minus, German-written, tribute-paying, vassal-state, Union-breaking, for absolutely nothing in return, would incur electoral oblivion from their own members & the rest of the country.
10. What is the first duty of the party?
11. To get re-elected.
12. So they have a binary choice now, as does the country. Leave or Remain. Leave on WTO in 5 days or Revoke A50.
13. Every other option less than leaving on WTO boils down to (effectively) remaining or worse.
14. All the other options short of Remaining (or worse) are fantasy cherry picks which the EU will not accept.
15. All these other options, except revoking A50, are ONLY available AFTER the WA is signed. (Ask the EU – but this is the case)
16. So, if WA is dead, and it is, the whole indicative votes farrago is pointless. They have already all been proposed and rejected as amendments anyway.
17. Therefore we have either WTO or Revoke A50.
18. Revoking A50 is Parliament versus the People…
19. Revoking A50 tells not only 17.4 million people that their votes are worthless, but tells the entire electorate that if, in future, they don’t vote for what the EU masters want then the ruling technocrats have the right to ignore them again. And again. And again.
20. And how do we think revocation might play out in the UK? Not well I suspect. Possibly in Civil War. 
21. But regardless it will be the end of the Conservative party.
22. So the Conservatives can only conclude that their best option is WTO (by stealth).
23. If their analysis is any good they will finally have realised that 17.5 to 19 million voters are not going away. 
24. They can win these voters instantly to the Conservative cause by going for WTO. The alternative is end of party.
25. It very odd but we have 500 odd MPs and the entire MSM all fighting to woo the Blairites – because that’s what they all are.
26. The loudest voices are the Soubry, Adonis, Umuna, Starmer, Elwood brigade. They and MSM (and TM) all inhabit the same thought space.
27. What they have in common is they that are all despised by Leave voters of every hue.
28. The UK is an amazing, wonderful, resilient, law-abiding nation full of opportunity for people of any and every background and identity.
29. Economists, and their forecasts, are always very wrong, sometimes 100% (500k unemployed vs 500k more employed) because they don’t understand what it is to be “a nation of shop keepers” (that so annoyed Napoleon).
30. British business will always thrive if free to do so.
31. But it’s not about the money…
32. It is about taking our place in the world alongside first tier non-superpower nations such as Japan, Australia and Canada.
33. It is about rejecting being the naughty child cash cow trading colony of the EU superstate project.
34. So…all May has to do is nothing until Friday.
35. WTO will be disruptive of course, but it won’t be Armageddon.
36. A mutually beneficial FTA with the EU will undoubtedly follow rapidly, along with fair payment for membership cancellation.
37. You made it this far? Well done. 
38. Ladies and gentlemen I commend to you all of the above course of action.
39. It is the only one to respect the vote, save democracy, avoid chaos, provide business certainty, save the Conservative Party and keep the U in UK and G in GB.

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Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Orange County Register address Governor Newsom’s declaration of a state of emergency to allow the state to waive environmental extremist laws and regulations that are needed so that Cal Fire can proceed with actions to clear dead trees, remove excessive…

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In-house lawyers at Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs have successfully fought off climate-related proxy resolutions sought by activist investors with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently granting the banks’ motions to exclude the resolutions from shareholder consideration.

The in-house lawyers at San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. and New York City-based Goldman Sachs have successfully fought off climate-related proxy resolutions sought by activist investors.

The proposed resolutions asked the banks to work to reduce the full carbon footprint of their loan and investment portfolios in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming.

But the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently granted the banks’ motions to exclude the resolutions from shareholder consideration. A number of other banks in the world have already committed to decrease the climate impact of their loans in accord with the Paris goals.

But since the U.S. does not accept the Paris agreement, most U.S. banks have committed to lowering their own operations’ footprints but not to reducing loans or investments in fossil fuel companies.

For example, Wells Fargo has promised $200 billion in financing through 2030 to businesses that support the transition to a low-carbon economy, including $100 billion toward clean technology and renewable energy projects. Goldman has committed to financing and investing in clean energy with an expanded target of $150 billion by 2025.

Attorney Danielle Fugere, president of the nonprofit group As You Sow, which promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility, said Tuesday she was disappointed in the SEC’s decision and in the banks. Investing in clean technology is not enough, she said.

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