Thread by @tony_nog

#Marr
1) honest, straightforward #Brexit politics
There's now 4 major players in the Brexit debate
- Remainers
- May's Deal supporters
- Hard/No deal brexiters
- Labour Leadership

Labour Leadership are the most dishonest & duplicitous by any measure by some margin
#PeoplesVote

2) Remainers - are clear on their offer and objectives. Do not pretend that a reversal would be easy but are the most clear on exactly what Remain means.
The economic impacts are most clear as well, because Remain has no negative impact in the short or mid term

3) May's deal - for all its faults May's deal is at least real & achievable. There's a level of dishonesty as to what it means & the implications, and a pretence that it's "better for the country" but in general people can assess it

Like Remain, the EU will accept it

4) Hard brexiters - there's a lot more dishonesty here because these people have pivoted from "cake & eat it" to "we always wanted a hard Brexit".

They also move between no deal, "managed no deal", "let's walk out", "let's play hardball in negotiations" as the situation suits

5) as they did in the referendum they refuse to be tied down on exactly what No Deal means, and most options put forward actually require some level of EU agreement.

But, there is some logic, albeit twisted, to the hard Brexit position - we cast free, & take the consequences

6) before we get onto Labour, Remainers, May supporters & Hard Brexiters can at least say they represent someone and have a degree of genuine support in the public

Labour only have support in the Labour leadership and absolute core supporters who downgrade Brexit in importance

7) by a significant degree the Labour leadership is the most dishonest of all 4 players

Of the 4 they have by a clear margin the most unicorn like position
- SM without FoM
- CU with Veto on EU trade deals
- unlimited state aid
There's absolutely no way the EU would accept this

8) the Labour leadership also work harder than any of the #Brexit groups in downplaying the economic impacts of Brexit, with their nonsense talk of a mythical Jobs first Brexit & a refusal to admit that Brexit will impact their members

9) Labour leadership want to end FoM on a "immigrants are taking our jobs" platform but they refuse to admit it openly, and play down this aspect, hiding it behind a "close relationship with the SM" theme that is meaningless

10) Labour Leadership also says they want a GE, knowing this would solve nothing because the EU would not even look at their version of Brexit. They continue to pretend they could negotiate a better deal when there's 3 months left

11) but most importantly - Labour leadership represent no-one but themselves. They do not represent the Labour membership or Labour voters and have sidelined and attempted to crush the conference will for a #PeoplesVote

12) shamefully, Corbyn's Labour has positioned itself to be even more dishonest & evasive than the hard/no deal brexiters. They present a fantasy "Vote Leave" level unicorn, call for a GE that will solve nothing and override their own members
Quite an achievement
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