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Andy Ballingall #FBPE #PeoplesVote @cnapan
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Are you a #Brexiter who voted in good faith for #Brexit, hoping for a better life for you and your family, and don't see why so many people now want a #PeoplesVote? Let's revisit the things #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw and @LeaveEUOfficial told you back then. 1/n
Then: "There will be no downside to Brexit - only a considerable upside" (David Davis).

Now, The "benefits" of brexit may take "up to 50 years to appear" (Jacob Rees Mogg), or "never" (Nigel Farage).

Hate austerity? Brexit = constant austerity.

theguardian.com/politics/short…
Then: "Turkey is joining the EU" (Psst If you don't vote for Brexit, Turks, Syrians and Iraqis will overwhelm our country)"

Now: @michaelgove admits they lied to you about it, and "regrets" this. theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Then: "Your food will be cheaper!".

Now: "There will be adequate food"

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Then: "Save the NHS! 350m a week for it! And our video shows that queues will vanish once we're out!"

Now: Stockpiling medicines, staff are deserting: 40,000 nurses short, 10,000 doctors short, and doctors warn Brexit will be a catastrophe for the NHS. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Then: "We are not sovereign till we leave the EU".

Now: EU: pay, obey, no say. Must join the WTO, despite not being able to vote for them or have any say. We need to accept substandard food from the US. Must turn a blind eye to atrocity, for trade deals. uk.businessinsider.com/peter-westmaco…
You care about your family's future. Think how love for your country was used to deliver something that won't benefit you.

Ask who really benefits.

Be angry. Demand a #PeoplesVote ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/02/08/219…
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It looks likely that both Conservative and Labour will try to force hard brexit through without a #finalsay or #optiontoremain.

How do we respond?
Thread for discussion! #waton #fbpe #stopbrexit
1/ Problem: If we have a fragmented collection of smaller efforts and parties, we will never get the gravity. We need a single political entity which stands solely for saving the country - an Emergency Alliance to Save Britain.
2/ This alliance could be formed from @libdems, @TheGreenParty , @theSNP, @Plaid_Cymru, @Renew_Britain, with help from all the campaigning groups: @ofoc @ffs @bestforbritain etc. but most importantly, MPs from Conservative and Labour who prepared to jump ship to join the effort.
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1) Why Labour #Brexit Conference policy is flawed

Unfortunately Ben is wrong here, Corbyn is following the agreed policy here because that policy let's him do exactly what he wants on Brexit, not what the members want

The policy is a well crafted stitch up
2) there's 2 consistent themes from Corbyn supporters
a) this is the policy Labour conference overwhelmingly supported
b) Corbyn's following that policy to the letter
Both of these are true, but neither stand up to critical examination if we're being honest
3) in terms of the first "this is the policy conference supported" well, as a remainer its essentially the same as the non meaningful vote May tried to create
May's choice was her deal or no. Deal which, if true, is no deal at all
It was the same with Labour conference policy
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Every so often I find it fun to try and re-articulate my worldview from scratch, often in the hope that there will be some new or interesting bit to it
1. We are cluelessly born into the middle of a bustling, chaotic story. We are tiny ants on a leaf on a branch on a tree, and everyone around us certainly seems to be in a great hurry
2. We start out as extremely local beings, embedded in our families, our peers, our communities. We inherit their beliefs, their aspirations, their traumas, their flags - most of which they inherited in turn. As children we are onboarded into their rituals and superstitions
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1) #Brexit - reality check, only Remain makes sense for our long term sanity

It's time to state some home truths, this is a mess, and it's only going to get messier. Leaver or Remainer, it's time to step back and recognise there's only one way out - Remain
2) firstly, the reality is there is little love for #Brexit left in the country. Maybe 35% of the country max still actively crave it, the rest are either resigned to it or hate it.

"Just get on with it" is a brief step from "just make it go away"
3) even #BBCqt, that great fortress of Leave support, is changing. Hartley-Brewer's cry of "we've had a people's vote!" would normally guarantee a whoop & a cheer, not any more, it got barely a ripple

Faith in Brexit is draining away

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1) BBC journalists - a thread on #Brexit balance.
2 years ago you took an editorial decision to write off "Remain" as an option.

This survey shows that that was a catastrophic failing in your duty of balance informed reporting

@AndrewMarr9 @bbcnickrobinson @EvanHD @bbclaurak
@AndrewMarr9 @bbcnickrobinson @EvanHD @bbclaurak 2) week after week you, at best, pitched Tory spokespeople (who support #Brexit) against Labour (who also support Brexit)

Sometimes you even presented 2 sides of the Tory Brexit position as "balance"

This survey shows that this was a terrible failure of duty
@AndrewMarr9 @bbcnickrobinson @EvanHD @bbclaurak 3) despite this writing off of Remain (Nick Robinson said essentially "the debate is over, the only Q is the form of #Brexit"), despite pleading "but Brexit must happen", even despite attempts to reinforce the inevitability of Brexit, Remain has grown

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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1. Labour Schism: the threat's real if there's not a major shift in #Brexit policy at Conference.
A #BrexitShambles harms UK
A #PeoplesVote is Democratic
A #FinalSay Confirms the Will
#Remain + Current Deal is Best Deal
Prob is the Leadership Stance
#FBPE
ft.com/content/e03f1e…
1a Big diffs between 1980s & today's #Brexit emergency which play to a new Centrist Grouping not being SDP2..
1. Politicised Remainers
2. Party loyalty less strong
2. Far Right infiltration of Tories
3. Macron
4. LibDems a Catalist with a base
5. Big Funders
A new party is Viable
1b IMHO #Brexit must be stopped before a Gen Elect...time's too short for that & a Ref & this #BrexitShambles can't be sorted in a multi issue GE unless Labour stands full square behind
#Reject #Revoke #Remain #Reform
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An interesting paper from Warwick University linking the timing and outcome of the #Brexit vote to the austerity programme that started after 2010
Compare and contrast Brexit vote with UKIP support in the 2014 euro elections. No surprise here. But why did UKIP support suddenly surge?
The analysis shows UKIP support rose sharply after austerity kicked in over 2011-13.
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