Thread by @mikegalsworthy

You wrote an article titled “Why won't Remainers talk about family?”

... at a time when hundreds of thousands of British-European families like mine are anxiously struggling with Android-only settled status applications.

Is this a joke? And there’s more 1/n

https://twitter.com/giles_fraser/status/1099019026976698368

You start with an anecdote about an unknown person’s misbehaviour -

then link to Remain-voting George Osborne (this is enough to make the whole “attitude” associated with Remain)

Then use this to invoke the need for a “a full-on Brexit – No Deal, please” to teach ‘em all.

ie - you develop a straw man to whip up your fury — and that justifies a crash-out no-deal damaging Brexit that will hurt countless families and livelihoods— but none of that matters next to your petty rage over a George Osborne headline that needs to be punished.

Values?

Then you post the damn thing under the tweet:

“Freedom of movement and social mobility undermine family life...”

As if social mobility is a bad thing and Free Movement is something that we should deny people... Take away their choice. Enforce social control.

You even end with:

“Brexit seeks a reclamation of something we have lost. The ability to stay put and care for each other”

WE NEVER LOST THAT

You can still bloody do that!

And in my case -with my Brit-Slovene family - Free Movement has helped our family do just that...

So what you’re talking about is forceably restricting other people’s choices, dog-in-the-manger style, to enforce they conform to your preferences...

...even if your very actions, through their short-sightedness, undermine all that family stuff you profess to care about.