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When you say "I want the Brexit I voted for", despite knowing that others voted for different ones, you're saying "I know that my Brexit version was probably voted for by fewer people than voted Remain, but I want the country to do it anyway."
Now I was about to follow this tweet up by saying "and those who want Brexit have have 3 years to agree among themselves what Brexit they want", but it's worse than that!
They've had 20 YEARS to agree on some kind of Brexit that respected the Good Friday Agreement! They haven't.
If any version of Brexit actually happens, it will be a Brexit that has less democratic legitimacy than staying in the EU, because it will not be what all of the 52% wanted.
Not by a long shot!
People who voted to stay, voted for something codified by 2 treaties and decades of legislation, and fixed by the UK'S EU Act of 2011 which says that no new power can be transferred to the EU level without a new UK referendum.
So 16 million people voted for something concrete.
People who voted to leave voted for wildly differing things ranging from "I've waited 50 years to be free of this EU monstrosity. The EU is evil and we must cut all ties to protect our children."... to this man...
(BE NICE! He didn't have to be honest.)
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WARNING:
▪️Parliament knows an Article 50 extension is needed.
▪️The EU won't grant one just so we can keep faffing around.
▪️The only way to guarantee that we'll have a final answer on the deal is a ratification referendum.

This will be painted as "the EU making us vote again".
Politicians will blame the EU for their failures (which is historically what got us here)
They failed to inform the public in a referendum they called, failed to take control of a clearly disastrous Brexit. Now their only way out is to blame the EU for resorting to a referendum.
Just wait... Politicians will be saying "It's not our fault. The EU is telling us it's either No Deal or #SecondReferendum and there's no time left".
These are the same politicians who will have been sitting on a deal they knew wouldn't change for the better part of 5 months.
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I'm out of words for Theresa May.

She concluded the deal in November.

She knew it would be neither approved nor changed in November

She's delayed Parliament's ability to act until 17 days before a national disaster

No morality. No dignity. No Democracy
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Theresa May is running down the clock to force Parliament to choose between a deal she knows both Leavers and Remainers hate, or a No Deal which her own government minister & head of Vote Leave said would break the promises his campaign made in 2016.
I get it though... She's busy with important business.
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#IDontUnderstandPeopleWho think a couple of pro-Brexit politicians and journalists are more trustworthy when it comes to what the NHS needs than the British Medical Association, Royal College of Nurses, Royal College of Midwives and Royal College of GPs.
If I need tips on renting London City bicycles or how to style my hair so it looks like I just got out of bed during a tornado, I'll give Boris Johnson a call. But if I need to know how much UK hospitals rely on European medical supplies and professionals, I'll ask NHS workers.
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