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Three points of interest in this piece about the Soros-sponsored effort to stop Brexit via a 2nd referendum
1. The acknowledgement that the vote to reverse would have to won by a "convincing margin" to make it stick (Blair says >60%; I say >66%) uk.businessinsider.com/anti-brexit-gr…
2. The odd and EU-centric justification for reversal - to avoid "creating a hard-to-fill hole in the European budget".
Plays straight into the hands of Leave who believe money is the UK's strongest card.
3. The point that the pro-EU movement is split between "Stoppers" and "pro-EU Soft Brexiteers".
I don't put any value on this as I think the latter group are mostly just using different tactics to reach a stop.
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Maastricht-era euroscepticism died on 23/6/16 - buried under a tidal wave of reactionary, immigration-based, post-2004 Brexit politics.
This 1990s form of euroscepticism - marked by Maastricht battles, 'White Wednesday', avoiding the €uro, being sanguine about migration, looking longingly at the Swiss & Norwegians, and pragmatism in the face of EUtopian over-exuberance - is finished.
Its 2016 "Liberal Leave" manifestation is dead too.
Protagonists have mostly either been swept along with the No Deal reactionaries or instead 'cling to the wreckage' (represented by May's Deal). Some have wavered between the two, unsure what to now think.
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@IanDunt I suspect it's very logical. Suppose Brexit is an article of near-religious faith for you i.e. you've believed this so long and it's so clear to you based on stuff you keep reading in your confirmation bias bubble that you've blocked any psychological escape route from that faith
@IanDunt And yet Brexit is now under severe pressure & may not even happen. How can this be, "as it is so obviously needed"? You need a way out and the only unblocked door in your psychology is No Deal. You convince yourself that's therefore what you always wanted and what everyone wanted
@IanDunt You mentally sweep away any blockers including all facts about No Deal because you can do no other. To outsiders you may appear to double-down on stupidity in the full face of truth. again because you can do no other. All that you've ever believed depends on this happening.
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The time has come to work towards revoking Article 50.
(I write this as a Leave voter in 2016.)
The last two years under TMay - driven by plan-less and detail-lite SW1 Brexiters, from Nick Timothy to Boris Johnson - have brought us to this sorry pass. Basically a horror show from start to finish.
It seems the legal status quo ante has NOT gone but the political status quo ante almost certainly has. If Art50 is revoked, the expected turbulence from Brexit would then move from economics to politics. I imagine the UK’s post-Art50 membership of the EU being frozen/paralysed.
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1. Sick to the back teeth of hearing the PM stating vaccous nonsense in Parl incl that she is implementing what the BritishPeople voted for.

No politician can now say what the People want..she has no right to subvert a false Will of the Ppl to her own Party political interest
2. She states 80% of ppl voted for parties backing #Brexit. This is arrogant rubbish as proven by any research undertaken. Many votes were tactical & a multi issue GE can't be taken as backing a given version or indeed any version. She lost her mandate Labour didn't win one!
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Accept #Brexit Deal/No Deal OR
#Reject #Revoke #Remain #Reform
Nothing else can be valid
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My mind keeps returning to this extraordinary and ridiculous #Brexit tweet from Downing Street earlier:


1/12
Commemorative copies of the EU (Withdrawal) Act.

Seriously, commemorative copies of the EU (Withdrawal) Act?

The Brexit equivalent of Charles and Diana commemorative mugs, as one wag said to me on Twitter.

2/12
Ultimately history will judge whether the Withdrawal Act was an important staging post on the route towards Brexit.

Trying to pre-judge the historic-ness of it (or not) just looks crass. Like something from The Thick of It.

3/12
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1) "Parliament follows" - a #Brexit story
Been engaged in a long thread with @0Calamity and others with the common Corbynite theme:
"But what can Corbyn do? He's not in power"
For a "popular movement" there seems to be a lack of awareness of how they work.
So, what *can* he do?
2) well firstly we need to recognize two fairly obvious things.
a) unfortunately, 80% of our current MPs are, well, sheep. They follow, especially public opinion, they don't lead
b) the prerequisite for stopping Brexit is public opinion. This *must* be shifted or it won't stick
3) this is when Corbynistas chime in & say "look at the polls,enough people haven't shifted, if Corbyn opposed Brexit it would be political suicide"

Putting to one side the "party before country" bias which is obvious to any non Labour supporter, isn't this what Labour is about?
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So the #Brexit folks (@danarohrabacher's friend, Farage, and Wigmore) were doing the exact same thing that the Trump fam and surrounding #MAGAs were doing. Not surprised one bit. No doubt the real story is much worse. (Murdoch owns The Times.)

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An interesting paper from Warwick University linking the timing and outcome of the #Brexit vote to the austerity programme that started after 2010
Compare and contrast Brexit vote with UKIP support in the 2014 euro elections. No surprise here. But why did UKIP support suddenly surge?
The analysis shows UKIP support rose sharply after austerity kicked in over 2011-13.
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Follow this thread for live-tweeting coverage, and forgive my typos...
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We’re about to kick off...
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