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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Labour are playing an extraordinarily dangerous game of chicken with Theresa May. They're planning to abstain so that her deal passes, on the condition that there's an amendment made that subjects it to a people's vote validation.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
However:
A) We've seen the contempt with which the Government treats amendments
B) They will have no control over the wording of the referendum, nor the timing. What if TM makes it "my deal vs no deal"
C) It's abdicating their responsibility: they know her deal's junk, but...
D) What if some other amendment is later passed to strip theirs out, as the bill bounces between the HOC/HOL and back
E) What if TM finds another way to wriggle out
Remember, she only needs her deal to pass. She couldn't care less how. Once it passes, that's Brexit done & dusted.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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If you're a betting person, Brexit fears have made Easter holidays abroad super-cheap. (But watch out for the small print in travel insurance policies because most won't cover Brexit disruption).
Just wait until the Government's no deal Brexit ads start airing on TV, supposedly in the next few days. Any remaining air will gush out of the travel market like a burst balloon. It would sadly be no surprise to see tour operators go bust, unable to carry the losses.
And if they do, all the blame should be laid on the Brexit cheerleaders and enablers. We are quite consciously, deliberately and methodically inflicting this on ourselves. (Crazy, eh?)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Brexiters talk about having to implement the result of the referendum as if it were a divine commandment. But Brexit itself isn't affected by the vote to leave. A lemon is a lemon, whether you're a Leaver or Remainer. Gravity affects people of all political persuasions the same.
Yet magically Brexit is supposed to be different, because of how the referendum turned out? Cause and effect don't work like that. You can't vote to win the lottery. You can't vote for your team to win the football. You can't vote for Brexit to be a success.
Once you figure that out, you'll realise that we're all on the same side. We are fighting the consequences of Brexit. The manner of our struggle may be different. Some may want to vanquish Brexit by remaining in the EU. Others by pushing to change the terms of our departure.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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According to Nick Timothy (TM's former policy advisor): "Theresa’s instincts have been that economically, this [Brexit] is a risk to be managed, but politically this is an opportunity and that main opportunity is to recover control of immigration."
theguardian.com/politics/blog/…
That's ridiculous logic because non-EU migration (over which we have complete control already) keeps going up and up and up, and recently hit the highest level since 2004. So the problem (if one exists - debatable) isn't Brexit at all, it's policy failure!
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-474006…
In other words, whether we leave the EU or stay in won't make a hill of beans difference to non-EU migration. That's already something we can control. We just choose not to! And it's the non-EU migration that's the main contributor to migration figures, not people from the EU.
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