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28 months ago, the Conservative Party elected Theresa May leader with 60% of the vote.

29 months ago, 51.9% of voters supported leaving the EU.

On one of these, it’s fine to ask if people have changed their minds. To do so on the other is apparently an affront to democracy.
To save a lot of people making the same point:
And another one, for the “But one was implemented, one wasn’t” brigade:
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Two million people will have read the Mail’s ill-informed diatribe against legal aid lawyers in today’s paper.

Please share with them this important reply by @TuckersLaw. tuckerssolicitors.com/response-to-th…
Let’s be clear - the cowardice in being responsible for a young woman’s death and fleeing to evade justice is repugnant. He deserves - and will receive - suitably condign punishment when he’s caught (and he will be).

But this has nothing to do with legal aid.
The Court of Appeal has only granted legal aid and given permission to appeal against the conviction because it believes that there are arguable grounds that the conviction is unsafe.

Nobody - even people on the run - should be unsafely convicted.
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📅 Worth pointing out, for context:

💰The MoJ cut the prison budget between 2010 and 2015 by nearly £1bn

⚖️The #ProtectTheProtectors law makes no practical difference (see inews.co.uk/opinion/commen…)

⬇️Even with the new recruits, there are 15% fewer prison officers than in 2010.
If we’re really interested in prison achievements, let’s also add:

🚑 Serious assaults against prison staff have TRIPLED since 2010

🚑 Self-harming in prison has increased by 88% since 2010

👨‍🎓The number of prisoners completing accredited courses is down by 22% since 2015.
📈58% of our prisons are overcrowded.

❌ Sexual assaults in prison have tripled since 2012

📖 The number of English and maths qualifications achieved at level 1 or 2 (GCSE equivalent) has nearly halved since 2012.

☠️ 299 people died in custody in the year to March 2018.
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Shame on @spectator for uncritically publishing this dishonest guff about legal aid, full of the usual canards and lies that have been conclusively debunked. [THREAD]
@RossjournoClark has been hawking this same column around for years. It wasn’t true when he started, it’s not true now. I even take the time to deal comprehensively with these claims in my book, which I reproduce here for free.

Firstly, the “most expensive legal aid system” lie:
(continued - the myth of “most expensive legal aid system in the world”). TLDR: The comparator legal systems are completely different. It’s comparing oranges with meerkats.
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How @DailyMailUK twisted the results of @Survation poll and created a nice little frontpage to support Theresa May with some beautiful YESes in red and some lovely supporting words, even though the front page does not actually reflects the results of the poll...
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A few choice quotes to recall from the Brexiteer leaders:

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Ignore the polls and get out there and #Vote on November 6th. Relying on polling is a relic of a time gone by.
I’m not saying looking at @FiveThirtyEight’s model and charts and stuff isn’t cool, because it is and provides some insight. But no matter what the numbers say, it’s most certainly NEVER an excuse to not #Vote because you feel your peeps are a “lock”
Need nothing further than to point to 2016. Which by the way, @FiveThirtyEight didn’t really have wrong, but the “selected not elected” mindset existed before 2016. Why else would over 100 million people choose NOT to participate in their civic duty to choose their leaders.
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