Thread by @nicktolhurst

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Thread to explain why, strange as this sounds, (& many still don't get this!) - there are no hard Brexit MPs. Even Mogg & Johnson are kind of soft brexiters. Both wanted frictionless trade with EU & no real economic change.

So what happened?

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What Mogg, Johnson & rest wanted was a "soft Brexit on UK Terms". They were so sure this would happen that they barely considered what wld happen if there "hard Brexit talk" didn't result in a "soft Brexit on UK terms".

Thus the fight is not btwn hard & soft Brexit but btwn..

3/ the fight now is btwn those that want to accept reality of situation: that the longed for soft Brexit occurs on EU terms not UKs - and those that are "winging it" for something they never actually wanted & do not yet understand but have talked themselves into...

4/ this is why it's worse than remainers complaining we won't get the Brexit many thought they were voting for. It's actually more bizarre than that: nobody will get the Brexit they voted for - even Mogg. Brexit has left the realm of hard vs soft it's now come down to one thing..

4/ #brexit now purely about how Britain as a nation copes with loss of pride: soft Brexit or remain will be humiliating but no deal will be humiliating loss of power/wealth. Brexit has left realm of economics it's now abt how our country comes to terms socially with this reality.

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Anything now possible from Corbynite socialist backlash against posh elites who caused this, to a nationalist Tory govt convincing half the people it's all Europeans fault. One thing clear, whatever happpens the postwar era of normal managerial UK politics is smashed. Forever.