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