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Ian Dunt @IanDunt
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The difference between Labour's Brexit policy and the government's is that they are promising to take much better care of their unicorns.
They will be free-range unicorns, fed with locally-sourced, ethically produced rainbow seeds.
Quite enjoying watching the Gardiner video on silent and imagining that he's assuring viewers how well he'll care for the unicorn.
'We've named her already, She's called Aasifa. It was all done through a formal membership voting process. We're a beautiful allotment we've created for her....'
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Strongly advise you watch parliament right now parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e5…
It's full of business motion, amendment blah de blah - but in reality it is parliament kicking back against a government which has undermined and ignored it at every turn
Ken Clarke: "I find it unbelievable that people are putting such effort into excluding the possibility of the House expressing its opinion. I say to my honourable friends who are getting over excited, that perhaps they should don a yellow jacket and go outside."
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Quick reminder that most Tory MPs - not some, most - are deeply misinformed.
Their constituents have tried. They have been sent material constantly over the last two and a half years and regularly emailed, all of it to inform them about basic facts over Brexit. They've ignored them and read the Telegraph.
Echo chamber culture is not just about social media. It is in parliament too.
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I really do try with the echo chamber thing, but nearly every day I have to unfollow someone on the other side just because of the rampant conspiracy theory tosh.
There are still lots of Leave voters in my stream, but all of them have either changed their mind, or become so disillusioned by Brexit that they're just mostly in pain or resignation.
Anyone still actively and enthusiastically supporting it has had to go through so many emotional and intellectual contortions that they've start to look quite insane.
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1) Corbyn - unable & unwilling to lead
With 88 days to go & with 2 public defeats on the Government Corbyn had a chance today to show leadership & set the tone for Labour on #Brexit

Essentially 30 minutes filming an empty chair would have been just as useful
2) there were some minor crumbs that some will cling to but nothing knew was said, nothing meaningful was promised, and the entire speech was an exercise in dishonesty & misdirection

It's yet another shameful day for Labour Leadership & another let down for its voters
3) Corbyn again reiterated the nonsense that he would push for a CU where the UK would have a "say" on trade deals. He must know by now this is unachievable.

He calls for a "close relationship with the SM" which we've known for years is a meaningless phrase
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Why have I changed my mind since the 2016 EU Referendum and why it is wrong to continue to support Brexit?
Nothing has convinced me otherwise.
Let the people have the final say
#PeoplesVote #RemainerNow #tory #labour #libdems #brexit
The country is divided and some of the reasons many of us who voted Leave have been laid bare: immigration, lack of respect, fear for your job and squeeze on public services.
#PeoplesVote #RemainerNow #tory #labour #libdems #brexit
Trust me, sovereignty was way, way down the list!
We lashed out upsetting the apple cart and gave the government a bloody nose and like many got joy at watching David Cameron lose his job.
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1) #Brexit, what does democracy actually mean & @jeremycorbyn - thread

There's a simple fact at the heart of Brexit, when enough people realise that any Brexit, no matter how soft, is worse than staying in the EU then it will die

Labour Leadership is keeping the lie alive
@jeremycorbyn 2) after all what is democracy? What does it mean? Surely the foundation is that everyone who votes must as much as possible have an informed choice.

They can ignore that information of course but the information must be clearly available to all otherwise democracy fails
@jeremycorbyn 3) the fundamental truth of Brexit is that every possible deal will leave us worse off. It's perfectly valid to know that and yet still believe that other priorities are more important, as long as everyone knows it in the first place.
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1) Thread - All Brexits are bad and what we voted for
It's often said by brexiters that "it's not all about economics"
However, the *actual* Leave campaign was almost wholly about economic arguments

With the leak of this 2-8% report those arguments are now trashed
2) We seem to have forgotten this however economics played a huge part in the Vote Leave campaign, making up over 2/3rds of the primary arguements. The clear message was we would at the least be no worse off and at best much better off. 4 of the 6 below state this clearly
3) & the fact is voters believed we would be no worse off. People prioritized immigration certainly, but against a backdrop of there being no consequences from Brexit - few are prepared to actually pay for ending FoM
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1) That #Brexit election conundrum
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By all accounts Rees Mogg is making his bid for Tory Leadership, which in turn may lead to yet another GE.
But this next GE, as things stand, will likely lead to another hung parliament because of #Brexit
2) that's because each party is polling roughly 42% and remain/leave is still roughly split 50-50
But both parties have leavers & remainers as supporting voters.

Maintaining the current status quo ("our Brexit is better than their Brexit") will lead to a similar GE outcome
3) nothing will have changed particularly (other than perhaps it being clearer that Labour "accepts" Brexit) so there's no reason to assume 30 seats will shift either way.

Labour will be no more attractive to Tory voters than they were last year and the same goes for Tory party
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#Brexit as a concept is increasingly drifting from having anything whatsoever to do with the mechanics of leaving the EU. It is now primarily a culture war and both sides will totally ignore the details except for when they are temporarily convenient.
The consequence of this is that our future relationship with the EU will be just as readily ignored as our activities as a member. They said Brexit would make us isolated, self absorbed and insular but it seems that was always the case and there are no signs of that changing.
As ever the details will be delegated to officials and civil servants while our establishment politics drifts further into its cycle of decline, unable to usefully influence external events making us entirely passive and reactive to events rather than self-interestedly engaged.
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