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Schona Jolly QC @WomaninHavana
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Nothing to look at here, folks.

Just a country losing all control.

Nobody can even articulate why.

#ThinkAgain #PeoplesVote
Any time @UKLabour want to step in & stop this Brexit wrecking ball, that’d be grand.

Change policy, Labour.
Back a #PeoplesVote
Back Remain.
Articulate why.
It’s not hard.

That other way, madness lies.
Y'know that feeling when you quickly do your homework on the back of a crisp packet on the school bus...

Brexit #WhitePaper now heavily delayed, like, well everything else except Brexit itself.
Remember the big blue boxes of blank that filled sections of the last Brexit #WhitePaper?

Looks like @DExEUgov are improvising on the next #WhitePaper but sticking within the overall theme of #redwhiteblueBrexit.
Two years, two years, and nobody can agree what this #redwhiteandblue Brexit should look like.

Meanwhile, IDS says all we need is imagination & courage.

Say stop to this parboiled Idea. It's self-sabotage on the grandest scale.

Come on @UKLabour. It's time to #SayStop.
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“This Court is of the view that the mass killings of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere in November 1984 were in fact “crimes against humanity”. They will continue to shock the collective conscience of society for a long time to come.”
I haven’t had the chance to read the whole jmnt yet & will post more when I do.

I am privileged to have played a v small role in the work that led up to this milestone #1984 conviction. A day when the day job feels worthwhile.

Thank you @hsphoolka,Jagdish Kaur & so many others.
For those interested, I recommend reading @PavSingh84 #1984 India’s Guily Secret. A meticulously researched book laying out what happened, how it’s been carefully hidden away & why justice is late, but not denied. #SajjanConvicted #1984SikhGenocide

And why these weren’t “riots”.
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“Impassive Aggressive”.

If that’s a thing, I think it is a fitting description of Theresa May.

Some thoughts on why, for all the spectacle of being a lone figure battling on all sides, May does not deserve a nation’s sympathy. /1
All throughout this process, and Brexit is very a much a process (to which I will return), there have been a series of choices. At each turn, May has made very poor choices.

It is those choices which have led us to the precipice on which we sit as a nation today. /2
Of those choices, to my mind, it is the failure of transparency which has had the most serious ramifications.

Indeed, it can’t even be described as a failure of transparency.

It was a conscious choice in May’s part to keep reality cloaked in darkness during her premiership. /3
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On a night of political turmoil, it’s such a delight to switch off Brexit and celebrate the work of ⁦@BarHumanRights⁩ and wave farewell to our wonderful Chair ⁦@Kirsty_Brimelow⁩, in conversation with the marvellous Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. #ThankYouKirsty
Lovely words of encouragement and thanks from @Kirsty_Brimelow on behalf of @BarHumanRights to our many partners in the room, to our hardworking Drafting Committee and to our student members, future human rights lawyers to keep checking a cycle of backsliding in #humanrights.
International trial observations, which @BarHumanRights specialise in conducting, throw a spotlight on specific #humanrights issues. @Kirsty_Brimelow talks about our work in Turkey this year, and her own trial observation in Bahrain, & Colombia.
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1) Corbyn supporters & adopting the attitude of Brexiters

I appreciate there's been some spats between #FBPE and Corbyn supporters & there's even a #BlockFBPE hashtag going around. Both sides accuse each other of not listening and being abusive

But here's some reflections
2) Remainers can be sympathetic with the Bunker mentality that springs up when a group feels under attack, its what kept Remain going to a certain extent

However, in my own view this is in danger of turning into an adoption of brexiter attitudes & even language,which is worrying
3) Firstly, the very idea of the #BlockFBPE hashtag is itself destructive. We all need to block sometimes but group silencing people as a default just because of a hashtag is a very disturbing action and is reminiscent of similar shutdowns by brexiters
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#Brexit #thread
1/ If you don’t follow Brexit every day, here’s some advice. Let go of any illusions that this drama is about trade protocols, residency rights or the status of the Irish border. Brexit is the story of a proud former imperial power undergoing a mid-life crisis
2/ The rest of the world is left listening to Britain’s therapy session as they drone on about their ex-spouse, unable to see, admit or address their own flaws.
3/ The promise of Brexit was that it would make Britain feel big again. “Britain is special,” the Brexiteers assured British voters, who cast their ballots accordingly. But Brexit has proven that for the first time in modern history, Britain is small.
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Brexit is like the appendix telling the other organs its leaving to forge a brighter, better life. "Stop holding me back" it screams as it leaves. No matter what the other organs do or say, the appendix is adamant the deal it can make with some hungry vultures is better. #Brexit
"I don't need any of you, haven't you heard how good life is after removing yourself from a symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship that you never took notice of but took fully for granted can be?"
"Sitting here twiddling my thumbs, looking at you all, mocking you, what do you offer me! Nothing! I look out of my tiny window and see the brown flow by, trying to come over here, not really effecting me at all ever, being dealt with somewhere else. I'm sick of it!"
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Unite Members:

57% backed #PeoplesVote
24% leave voters backed #PeoplesVote

West Midlands car workers:
“Only now have voters started to see through the initial referendum campaigns and truly understand the implications & costs of leaving the EU."

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Unite union:

"open to the possibility of a vote on any deal the Tories come back with"

"members fears that the Tories' in-fighting and destructive red lines will bring ruin to their jobs and communities"

Unite Statement:
unitebrexitcheck.org/unite-policy-c…

#PeoplesVote
Great speech by Julie Ward MEP on why she marched with #WomenForEurope for a #PeoplesVote

Women and the young will be the most affected by #Brexit



#PeoplesVote
#StopBrexit
#FBPE
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#Brexit 1
Cadbury moved factory 2 Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved 2Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover recently agreed 2 build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, same company who trashed our steel industry & emptied workers pension funds.
#Brexit 2
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
#Brexit 3
Dyson gone 2 Malaysia, with EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone 2Poland with EU grant,employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone 2far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys & models gone from UK along with patents all with EU grants
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#Brexit
1) Thread - All Brexits are bad and what we voted for
It's often said by brexiters that "it's not all about economics"
However, the *actual* Leave campaign was almost wholly about economic arguments

With the leak of this 2-8% report those arguments are now trashed
2) We seem to have forgotten this however economics played a huge part in the Vote Leave campaign, making up over 2/3rds of the primary arguements. The clear message was we would at the least be no worse off and at best much better off. 4 of the 6 below state this clearly
3) & the fact is voters believed we would be no worse off. People prioritized immigration certainly, but against a backdrop of there being no consequences from Brexit - few are prepared to actually pay for ending FoM
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