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Confusion in London after Prime Minister Theresa May canceled Tuesday's planned Parliamentary vote on the Brexit, knowing that the deal she struck with the European Union would go down in flames with little support, not even from within her own Tory party.  "If we went ahead and held the vote tomorrow, the deal would be defeated by a significant margin," May told Parliament to jeers and derisive laughter.  Few were satisfied with this, and it is likely the matter is on hold until MPs return from the Winter Holiday on 7 January. 

"The government has lost control of events and is in complete disarray," scolded Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, "The fault for that lies solely at the door of this shambolic government.  This prime minister is trying to buy herself one last chance to save this deal.  If she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required, then she must make way for those who can."  But Mr. Corbyn resisted calls for a no-confidence vote, even though from this angle it looks like Ms. May would have a hard time surviving.  The leader of the pro-European Union Liberal Democrats Vince Cable, Scottish National Party chief Nicola Sturgeon, the Greens, and the leaders of the Welsh regional Plaid Cymru party all said they would have Corbyn's back and support a no-confidence motion if he would just call it - which Jeremy is not going to do unless he is sure he has the votes.  So far, no Tory has come forward to say they'd vote against their own government.

Instead of the Tuesday vote, Ms. May will now go to Brussels this week to try and convince European leaders to give her more concessions - especially on the "backstop", an assurance within the Brexit deal that guarantees no checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, should no comprehensive trade deal between the UK and EU be reached.  Phew.  This could be unlikely, as European officials have consistently warned the UK that the current deal is as good as it's going to get and there will be no re-negotiations.  Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar reiterated as much before May decided to cancel the vote, and EU President Donald Tusk said it yet again afterward.  Mr. Tusk has confirmed that the Brexit will be the prime topic at Thursday's EU meeting in Brussels.

But the European Court of Justice has thrown London a lifeline of sorts.  The ECJ says the UK can cancel the Brexit without getting permission from the rest of the EU member states.  Find a way to opt to stay and all this nonsense goes away.  Just sayin'...

Anyway:

French President Emmanuel Macron is promising a minimum wage hike and tax concessions after four weekends of violent protests that has resulted in economic disruptions, hundreds of arrests, thousands of injuries, and four deaths.  In an address to his nation, Macron admitted that the anger expressed by the Yellow Vest protesters was "deep, and in many ways legitimate".  The minimum wage will be increased by 100 Euros per month from 2019; the government will cancel taxes on overtime, cancel a planned tax increase on pensioners, and encourage employers to give tax-free end-of-year bonuses.  But he refused to reinstate a tax on the wealthy, claiming "this would weaken us, we need to create jobs", and ignoring the evidence that it is economic growth in the middle class that creates demand and therefore jobs - not the charitable whims of the billionaire caste which all available evidence shows simply hoards the gains of tax cuts.

Japanese prosecutors formally charged Nissan's former boss Carlos Ghosn with severely under-reporting his income by about AU$61.4 Million over five years.  Police also re-arrested Ghosn and his closest ally on the Nissan board Greg Kelly for allegedly concealing yet another $49 Million in a separate time-frame.  Meanwhile, the Financial Times is reporting that Nissan is trying to prevent Ghosn and members of his family from returning to an apartment in Rio de Janeiro the company believes was purchased with its money, and might contain a safe holding documents that prove it. 

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has left the solar system and is now speeding off into interstellar space.  Researchers say that on 5 November, Voyager 2's sensors detected a sharp dip in the number of particles from our Sun, indicating that it had crossed the heliopause - the point where the solar wind from our sun and the cosmic wind from deep space meet.  That is way, way beyond Pluto - 18 billion kilometers from Earth.  So, yeah, 47 years after launch it's still sending back data to Earth.  Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause on 25 August 2012, so we've now got two man-made objects whizzing along in the space between the stars.