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Economists for Free Trade - who don't understand economics or free trade - have teamed up with Jacob Rees-Mogg, like some kind of evil Justice League. And guess what? They're talking dogshit politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/09/…
I haven't read the full repot - life is too shot. Honestly, I couldn't even highlight everything they got wrong in the press release because it was taking too much time.
But this is an important moment to recognise. The ERG alternative Brexit plan isn't coming out. Johnson has no proposals to offer, just a series of lewd metaphors. This repot is all the hard Brexiters have got.
And it is nothing. It is magnificently, vigorously, gleefully wrong about everything.
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Strongly advise you watch parliament right now parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e5…
It's full of business motion, amendment blah de blah - but in reality it is parliament kicking back against a government which has undermined and ignored it at every turn
Ken Clarke: "I find it unbelievable that people are putting such effort into excluding the possibility of the House expressing its opinion. I say to my honourable friends who are getting over excited, that perhaps they should don a yellow jacket and go outside."
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Quick reminder that most Tory MPs - not some, most - are deeply misinformed.
Their constituents have tried. They have been sent material constantly over the last two and a half years and regularly emailed, all of it to inform them about basic facts over Brexit. They've ignored them and read the Telegraph.
Echo chamber culture is not just about social media. It is in parliament too.
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I really do try with the echo chamber thing, but nearly every day I have to unfollow someone on the other side just because of the rampant conspiracy theory tosh.
There are still lots of Leave voters in my stream, but all of them have either changed their mind, or become so disillusioned by Brexit that they're just mostly in pain or resignation.
Anyone still actively and enthusiastically supporting it has had to go through so many emotional and intellectual contortions that they've start to look quite insane.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg's attack on Mark Carney yesterday for being biased, Canadian & wrong represents the coming together of three strands of British political culture, the combination of which is now harming the way our politics works. If you'll indulge me, a short thread... 1/5
1. Britain lauds the amateur. It's why we love Strictly, X-Factor & Bake Off. But in public life, reverence for the determined amateur has morphed into contempt for professionalism. We disparage & suspect the experts who help run our country (from Mark Carney to Olly Robbins) 2/5
2. Our political elite is dominated by generalists (like me). The public school/Oxbridge/politics nexus still delivers Renaissance men with great rounded education. And generalists like Rees-Mogg think clever people are just as good at economics as economists. They're wrong. 3/5
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Jacob Rees-Mogg on @LBC now.... taking your calls on 0345 60 60 973.

Ferrari: "Pronounce on the health of the Chequers' deal..."

JRM: "The pulse is very faint. Brexit is a fundamental error..."

Ferrari: "Brexit?"

JRM: "Chequers.... Chequers is a fundamental error."
JRM: "There comes a point when the flogging of a dead donkey has to stop...."

"I think rival plan is a Canada-plus. He (Barnier) made it clear a Canada-plus deal would be available."

Ferrari: "You weren't ganging up on the PM?"

JRM: "How would I gang up on my own PM."
JRM: I don't think Mr Carney's term should be extended. I don't think we should play ducks and drakes with the position.

Says he has been politically biased. Backs former Treasury select committee chairman and MP Andrew Tyrie to take over.
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I was inspired by the marches in the US and UK. They look like the Civil Rights Movement and that reminded me. There is evil in the world but fighting one form of hate with another version of the same hate isn't the answer.

This will be a thread about hope for our country.
In the 1960s. Martin Luther King had every reason to hate. He'd been discriminated against, beaten, and segregated from society. Yet he built his civil rights movement on hope for the future. He had a dream that all people were equal.
A men who spent his entire life locked up in jail, beaten and tortured by his captors, had every reason to hate them. Yet Nelson Mandela chose a path of peace and reconciliation.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg was supposed to board the Brexit fishing boat at Embankment pier. But he's just been told he's not allowed on because no one asked TFL's permission
Blocked from boarding his Brexit boat, Jacob Rees-Mogg is now having to walk to Parliament instead
A cyclist stops at the side of the road to inform Jacob Rees-Mogg that he (Jacob Rees-Mogg, not the cyclist) is "our next prime minister"
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‘Jacob Rees-Mogg to fling fish from trawler on Thames in protest for fishermen 'betrayed' by May's Brexit deal’

I want my country back 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Retweeted by a Brexiter who possibly thinks I’m being pro-JRM. Worrying.
Jacob Rees Mogg: “I follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.”

*Jacob flings dead fish into the Thames in protest at Brexit transition deal*

Hmm. Didn’t Jesus magic up lots of fish to feed the poor? Jacob screws the poor, then throws their dinner in the river. How very Christian.
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