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This looks like a great opener to:

#MontageGate (Part 2)

Last week I looked into a montage that the @BBCPolitics had used to argue people knew a vote to leave meant leaving the Single Market.

It didn’t hold water, but there is always the possibility that people would hear what was said and assume.

So based on the Andrew Marr argument that “You can’t say people didn’t know”, I looked at the behaviour of politicians after the vote in that context.

For example, this was Chris Grayling saying “No, we’ve just voted to leave the Single Market”.
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Britain is in trouble if it continues to go through with Brexit as it is doing currently. Our institutions are not working as they should and to prove it we only need to look at the government policy of leaving the Single Market.

#MontageGate (Part 1)
Here is David Davis explaining part of the rationale of leaving the Single Market. It’s because “It was plain”, and “that means that”.

(In Part 1 we’re going to take that on face value)
George Osborne doesn’t say we’ll leave the Single Market in his Marr interview, so we can assume that David Davis was referring to this montage that @BBCPolitics “put together”.

There are more than a few problems with it.
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Is 50 tweets too long for a thread about why if we continue with Brexit we're doomed as a country? I have a lot to say...
OK, so I've decided to do this in multiple parts. Hopefully tonight I'll be revealing the first part of #MontageGate.
Since the twitter algorithm is prioritising this. I posted it.

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