Or:
‘We Leavers have a critique that before Ref establishment ignored strongly-held opinions on identity & immigration they were in a minority &/or unable to be in representative politics because of structures (FPTP, few working class reps)...’
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‘We Leavers have a critique that before Ref establishment ignored strongly-held opinions on identity & immigration they were in a minority &/or unable to be in representative politics because of structures (FPTP, few working class reps)...’
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‘...now that we are the establishment, we wish to make exactly the same mistake, by defining those who voted Leave as ‘the people’, & everyone else as ‘not the people’ so we can ignore them...’
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‘We say another Ref would undermine The People’s faith in democracy. We don’t care that the manner we Leavers carried on the Ref *&* subsequently ran the government & negotiations have undermined the faith of Not The People.
The Not The People don’t matter...’
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The Not The People don’t matter...’
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‘...we don’t care that, by repeating same power dynamic from previous status quo, we’ve doubled down on failures of UK democracy & governance...’
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‘...we don’t care that we’re part of driving events so that the UK is having its own Dreyfus’s Affair, where qs of substance became qs of identity & poisoned French politics for 2 generations...’
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‘...The loudest Remainer leaders aren’t acting any better, so we don’t have to. Just because we’re in government does not mean we need to act w statecraft for long-term fabric of UK, or take responsibility for choosing way of delivering on Ref result that guarantees harm.’
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