2 November 2026
Members narrowly back rejoining the EU, as most of the day's other votes go one way
The day's tightest call was also its biggest question: refnation members narrowly voted for the UK rejoining the European Union. It was a narrow result by some distance, and the debate behind it was oddly lopsided. The Yes side's last standing argument was a rebuke to rivals over the Euro, while the No side filled the thread with Poland, Brussels and the 2016 mandate, a few conceding they had lost the argument but would keep their vote anyway.
The verdicts
Members were far less hesitant elsewhere. They overwhelmingly refused to back government action on Poundland and its 12,000 jobs, and the most-respected No case aimed at the owners rather than the shoppers, calling it "textbook asset stripping" with no job for the taxpayer to fund.
On the press, members voted overwhelmingly for barring any single owner from buying up multiple major UK newspapers, worried that "one person could dictate the narrative". The No side's best-rated lines shrugged at a medium it called dead and asked for existing law to be enforced instead.
Members also backed, overwhelmingly, limiting party donations to people registered to vote in the UK. The sharpest lines came from the losing side, which called it a "Sneaky anti Farage question" and kept steering toward union money.
Members voted against making private landlords fit solar panels, with the sharpest No line asking when the government would "stop assuming landlords are all cash cows". Yes backers kept adding "where it is possible", which did not rescue them.
A veterans month fell narrowly: members voted against making November an official month honouring the UK's armed forces veterans. Yes voters pointed out that other groups get a month while veterans get a day; No voters replied that more months only mean more tokenism.
Members comfortably backed Heathrow's third runway going ahead, despite the most-respected No case being a single line: "Build a new airport somewhere else". Yes voters countered with capacity, competitors and a plea to stop the delay.
Finally, on the new law keeping children under 12 from being left alone with XL bully dogs, members comfortably voted that it does not fall short. The debate was muddied by a question voters called confusing, and by No voters pulling in opposite directions: some wanted "Ban them all", others wanted owners licensed, not dogs banned.
A fresh ballot is open today, and the profiles keep building with every vote.
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