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Brexit: we are in the last stages of denialism for Britain's xenophobic right. 1/ May to "toughen" the deal, eradicating the backstop with a time limit. 2/ Boris Johnson to vote for it after all; 3/ Ditto the DUP... (to nobody's real surprise)...
Let's spell it out for these white nationalist, Neo-imperial fantasists: accepting May's deal makes Britain a permanent rule-taker from Europe. And for anybody in Labour prepared to back it: it is an attack on workers rights... you vote for it, you own it...
People like me have been putting "country before party" on Brexit now since July. I will be cock-a-hoop politically if the Tory right and the DUP defy 61% of Leave voters who want no deal - because good luck mobilising the Tory base after that...
Johnson, Arlene Foster, Mogg et al: if they called it a vassal state and then voted for vassal status... try selling that in Mansfield, Morecambe and Preseli... - meanwhile the liberal centrists in the Tory party would be marooned...
There's nothing the left can do if the Tories and the DUP suddenly unite around May's vassal state project; but there's something we can do to any Labour MP who defies a whip to vote it thru... withdraw the whip and select new candidates.
Finally, this is why it is crucial for Labour to whip support for @YvetteCooperMP and other amendments next week. Stopping No Deal, and the collapse of sterling and GDP, is not a conscience issue: it's a matter of party policy. ENDS
