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Theresa May: “throughout this process I have treated the EU with nothing but respect”. You mean like that time during GE2017 when you made the outrageous claim that they were meddling, in order to manipulate people’s patriotism for electoral purposes? theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Here’s a thread I wrote at the time.
“Threats against Britain have been issued by European politicians and officials. All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election which will take place on 8 June.” A disgusting and utterly untrue claim invented for electoral purposes.
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Reminder to The Sun: during the EUref campaign, Jo Cox was murdered not at random by some random individual but by a man who shouted “keep Britain independent” as he stabbed her.
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John Rentoul is impressed with the quality of Michael Gove's piece defending May's Brexit deal. He loves this: "Does it deliver 100% of what I wanted? No. But then we didn’t win 100% of the vote on 23 June 2016." This sounds plausible but is in fact a completely bogus argument.
You can only justifiably invoke your electoral mandate delivered at the ballot box if you campaigned honestly & unambiguously. If Leave had offered a clear, unitary, achievable prospectus then 52% would mean something.
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Unpopular opinion: everybody outraged about Marr's behaviour towards Shami Chakrabarti but she fucked up & was naive. Use the "I voted Remain but I'm a democrat" line if you must* but "I'm a democrat, I don't know about you, Andrew" foolishly makes it about the interviewer. (1/3)
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And then, the sheer assault to decency of her of all people invoking Jo Cox’s name. Utterly appalling.
Have you no sense of decency madam? At long last, have you left, no sense of decency?
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"Just as they cannot accept anything that threatens the integrity of theirs" =
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