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One of the many horrible ironies of the moment: May is a terrible prime minister but it'd be a disaster if she faced a leadership challenge.
It'd turn into a Tory arms race of ever-greater macho Brexit bullshit. And all the while the clock would keep ticking down.
Would also be the height, the very bloody pinnacle, of Conservative party irresponsibility.
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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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