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Alex Andreou @sturdyAlex
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A total absence of any factual support or rational argument in Boris Johnson’s speech; just “waaah this isn’t what you promised!” Pointed out May policy shifts, but made no case on why rigidity would be better for UK. Said we all just need to BELIEVE MORE. Televangelist politics.
He was most warmly supported and congratulated by Nadine Dorries and that is probably tells you everything you need to know on the quality of his statement. An idiot’s delight.
They have now given up arguing why their vision for the future is better for the UK. In effect, the only remaining argument for hard Brexit is: it is fulfilling a mandate as interpreted by a small band of extreme right wingers and keeps a promise to the people nobody ever made.
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Strip away noise. This is what happened: Commons gave gov’t 18 of 24 months to get deal; then 3 months to present it. Gov’t overreached and stole another month, leaving only 2. Commons refused to reward this bad faith by giving the gov’t a TWENTY-THIRD month for its blackmail.
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THREAD: 1. The whole May vote delay has a whiff of theatre to it which makes this imposed four-weeks before voting the cliffhanger mid-season break. Everything feels meticulously staged. My sense is a backstop time limit is already agreed; this panto is to give May momentum.
2. We saw a dry run of this before. Just like a few well-placed leaks in 2017 that “the EU is demanding £100bn as settlement” when all previous estimates had been around the £40bn that we eventually agreed to. The £100bn rumour was floated purely to give May a perceived victory.
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