Lots of ppl (rightly) outraged about the Telegraph & its readers bandying around accusations of treason. Well, sorry everybody but this is the logical & inevitable consequence of not pushing back harder on the “Will of the People” as a concept in our political discourse. (1/4)
Once you tolerate politicians & media referring to a monolithic yet ill-defined national policy objective as “The Will of the People”, you are implicitly accepting that anybody who stands in its way (or just asks difficult Qs) is an “Enemy of The People”. (2/4) 
And from there it is only a very short hop to start referring to those who don’t wholeheartedly buy in to the project as “traitors” or accusing them of “treason”. #BrexitDemocracy (3/4)
Frankly ALL those who’ve ever unthinkingly referred to Brexit as “The Will of The People” (incl moderate, middle-of-the-road MPs & media commentators; BBC interviewers etc who just allowed themselves to be browbeaten by this bullshit authoritarian rhetoric) share the blame.(4/4)
Some examples:
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And another
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And this mini-thread
As you can probably tell, this is something I feel quite strongly about. 🔚😳😬
