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1. This now politicises John Bercow's position, at a time he's under fire for bullying.
2. This means Brexit media will now go on hunt for more allegations in order to have him forced out.
3. If they succeed, the election for his replacement will be a proxy Brexit vote.
4. Whoever wins that election will be seen as biased by half the population and the losing side of the parliament.
5. And so another institution gets dragged into Brexit's maw. ENDS
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My latest piece on Brexit. This time I focus on its corrosive effect on the British constitution.

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The strength of the SNP has made it hard for either of the English based parties to win a working majority.
The lack of working majority meant Cameron had to appease what are (more or less affectionately according to taste) called the “swivel-eyed loons”
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No Brexitation Without Representation. Thread.

bestforbritain.org/right-to-vote
2. I'm against a second referendum and support Nick Boles's Norway+ proposals. But this is genuinely new and deserves serious consideration.
3. It makes a serious argument about why the first referendum was wrong (not a few dubious claims about Facebook ads) but a proper, principled democratic argument
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What @MacronInEnglish can learn from Thatcher's victory in the Miners strike. 1/
2/ Make tactical concessions, but prepare for a new showdown, because they will too.
3/ Divide broad supporters from hardcore fanatics using both policy and rhetoric (what PR consultants call narrative)
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1. One of the biggest problems in the #Brexit debate is the total lack of media literacy where the ignorance of the public is exploited and important issues turned into click-bait trivia. This is why so many important issues are written off as "project fear".
2. One such example is the "Brexit threat to sandwiches" headlines - which of itself seems risible but sandwiches are an £8bn industry which is worth a magnitude more than fishing and and employs tens of thousands of people.
3. Sandwiches do not pass through a membrane from an alternate dimension. they depend on complex logistics and food safety systems all of which are interwoven with our customs controls and thy depend on JIT supply chains and an array of suppliers for seasonal ingredients.
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1. So that #Brexit plan.

I won't be wasting a nanosecond examining the detail because it isn't a serious proposal, it doesn't address the core issues, it's issue illiterate and Brussels will refuse it because it violates their major red line.
2. So is it a betrayal of Brexit? No. We voted to leave the. We did not vote to terminate all formal relations with the EU and most reasonable people recognise that we need a deal and there will be compromises.
3. Being that trade requires a high level of regulatory cooperation it stands to reason that at the very least we would want a comprehensive agreement on the movement of goods not least for the sake of Northern Ireland.
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THREAD:

1. So who do I mean when I refer to the "Brexit Blob"? There's the usual suspects. Redwood, Rees-Mogg, Paterson and the other nonentity backbenchers, and then there;s the Tufton Street sock puppet think tanks and then the ayatollahs of #Brexit.
2. These will be people like Lawson, Ruth Lea, Hartley Brewer, Brendan O'Neill, John Longwoth, Kate Hoey, Gisela Stuart Low Fact Chloe, John Mills and so on and so forth. The ones who aren't lying are stone stupid.
3. These are the people who colluded to ensure that novbody outside the Westminster bubble got a voice in the campaign. That is why The Leave Alliance has struggled to win any exposure. Partly thanks to Hannan's sabotage early on - aided by the Bruges Group.
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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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1. Worst national leadership in my lifetime forcing through the most damaging, misguided & missold policy I can remember. Ideology & vested self interest replace statesmanship, soundbites replace sound judgement & autocracy subverts democracy.
#Brexit harms us irreparably #FBPE
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3. A mere 37% of voters/26.5% of the Ppl voted leave in a legally Non-Binding test of public opinion which has been corrupted, on the basis of an illegitimate political promise & interpreted as being the irrefutable Will of the Ppl.
The 1st is insufficient to claim the latter!
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