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Femi @Femi_Sorry
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I don't have a party to run / election to win, so maybe it's rich of me to stand on principle; maybe I'm naive, but...
I'm not willing to pretend that a good Brexit deal is possible just because I'm scared people (who I should have won over on Brexit) might think I'm ruining it.
I get why some might choose that due to their own strategic priorities. But if we go down the path of "keep trying Brexit until every last person is convinced it can't work":
a) We risk crashing out.
b) People would blame the EU not Brexit #HowWeGotInThisMess
c) It's dishonest
🔻The Tories want to endanger the Belfast Agreement which the EU won't allow. And even this Brexit will be rejected.
🔻Labour's Brexit must meet the 6 tests. That means Single Market & Customs Union. Parliament would never approve that for the same reasons we're stuck now.
So unless we can guarantee that every one of the 17million Brexit voters would have voted for No Deal, doing anything other than calling for a vote on the deal right now, is either time-wasting, political opportunism, intentionally causing a national disaster or all of the above.
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#Ridge
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🗣️"But he never said the word veto"🤭
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