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Sorry did Johnson just say that Chequers "is not democracy"?
The only possible take-home message is that Theresa May is a treasonous prime minister selling Britain off to a foreign power.
This is extraordinary
Remainers/People's Vote should be ecstatic at this. Johnson essentially promising to vote against May's deal if it resembles Chequers.
By angrily saying you can't take up the fight from outside the EU, he is actually dismantling the Brexiters' most credible strategy. All but guarantees May's deal will be rejected in the Commons.
Well that was fucking mental.
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Remainers and Brexiters should make a pact now to neither exploit the far-right demonstrators outside Westminster, or encourage them politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/01/…
Tim Montgomerie and Brexit secretary Steve Barclay both disgraced themselves over this. They should retract what they said.
But all of us should take a hard look at what's happening down there and put limits on how we speak. No more talk of traitors. No more threats of violence on the street.
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This seems quite dangerous and like it's on the edge of turning violent. It's the same guys in each video.
I understand police have a very delicate job to do there. But they seem to have very little effective presence despite there being rather a lot of them around.
Nothing has happened yet, but it feels on the verge of it - and like normal people will start staying away, which is intolerable given it's parliament.
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I think this is the most challenging question for Remainers on the 'traitor' norm. Obvs it does not stop you looking into the links, or saying that certain policies are useful to Russia, and actively pursued and encouraged by Russia.
But I do think it should discourage us from calling anyone who is ie pro-Brexit a Putin stooge, or instinctively ruling out their views as the result of Russian propaganda.
But I get that this is a sticky wicket and I can imagine myself, in a moment of anger, landing on the wrong side of it.
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