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If a parliament elected to represent our interests, and whose sovereignty is at the heart of our constitution, chooses not to ensure we avoid a #NoDealBrexit the British Medical Association calls "catastrophic" for the NHS, our democracy is broken beyond repair.
#BrexitAmendments
The first responsibility of Parliament/Government is to protect its citizens.
Parliament is actively abandoning its responsibility to protect the country from the effects of No Deal.
#WithdrawalAgreement #BrexitDebate "Cooper Amendment"
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Can people in their 60s stop saying "We'll just take the hit" on Brexit.
YOU WON'T BE THE ONES TAKING THE HIT.
Your careers are either already established or finished.
Some of us are are trying to get started. Some of us will have to support families in Brexit economy!
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I've made this very clear time and time again. So please be aware that there are those who are intentionally choosing pretend they don't understand what I mean and what I don't mean.
The hashtag & "quotation marks" show I'm referring to specifically to what someone said on question time.
If I'd said 'Could people with their own popcorn stop stealing mine" that wouldn't mean that everyone with popcorn is stealing mine. (esp. with the hashtag #ThePopcornThief)
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If you voted Brexit wanting/expecting a deal with the EU but now you want #NoDealBrexit, then YOU have changed your mind about what relationship you want with the rest of the EU. If you have that right, WE ALL DO!

The 2016 referendum didn't permanently put the 52% in charge!
Deal and No Deal are completely different relationships with the EU.
(Arguably Deal is closer to Remain than No Deal)
"Leave" just ends our current relationship. It can't give Brexiteers carte blanche to decide which one *most* of 37% of the electorate want.
#TyrannyOfTheMajority
Actually, a young guy we met in Leeds yesterday called that the "Tyranny of the minority of the majority" because ending up with No Deal would be something that only a small part of those who voted Brexit actually wanted at the time.
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THREAD - Yorkshire Man on the Train
On the train from Halifax to Leeds I met a man (pro-Brexit, low seventies, from Ripon in North Yorkshire). He didn't want his picture taken so I'll try not to reveal more than that, but he deserved a THREAD.
He spotted my t-shirt, and asked me about it. He voted out and opposes a second referendum, but also thinks we weren't given enough information and that the referendum should never have been called. But that wasn't the crux of the conversation.
I asked him what change he felt the country needed and he spoke for 30 minutes straight and not once did he mention the EU.
"Get rid of the House of Lords...It's a retirement home for old codgers"
"The politicians live by different rules to the rest of us"
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