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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #FBIR 🔶
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This from @NorgroveOliver touched me immensely.

I knew before the referendum that those of us with close ties to Ireland processes our relationship with the EU differently.

Imagine if our MPs showed half his courage & decency

irishtimes.com/opinion/why-br… via @IrishTimesWorld
We THINK we are going to be angry when people speak out like him. Full of “I told you so’s”.

Nope. Somehow he has made it easier to understand how some Leavers processed their decision making.

Can someone can ask him to unblock me so I can tell him how grateful I am?
“Process” in tweet 1. Why do I never notice until the send button has been pressed?

Another very small example of the benefits of hindsight.
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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #FBIR 🔶
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What do you think now @NickBoles after today?

You have a Government that has misled Parliament and is setting fire to our country in the process. It said it WOULD seek a long extension if the WA ot passed.

And you WANT the Tory whip?
This is a Gov without honour or care.
2/. Here is Lidington spelling out not only that the gov would seek a long extension if the WA was not passed prior to the EU Council, but that a short extension would be contrary to the resolution passed by the house the night before as it would INCREASE the risk of NO Deal
3/. Here is a link to that section of the debate.

bit.ly/2TCP3Jy

Further the pre debate DexEU briefing note ALSO misled Parliament, given the PM’s letter today.
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This is absolutely magnificent from Betty Boothroyd.

Every sentence a gem
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“Would he (Gov Minister) please explain to young people who have reached adulthood why they cannot have a say on an issue our generation has manifestly bodged?
3/

“Brexit will shape these young people’s futures for the next 50 years. Not ours.....I’ll be alright, Jack. I do not have any children. Nor any grandchildren. But what about the Jack and Jill’s out there?
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1/ “ Brexit is a fabulous form of displacement – it acknowledges a profound and genuine unhappiness about how the British are governed but deflects it on to Europe. irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…
2/ Let’s just say that if Theresa May were the head of a newly liberated African colony in the 1950s, British conservatives would have been pointing, half-ruefully, half-gleefully, in her direction
3/ and saying “See? Told you so – they just weren’t ready to rule themselves. Needed at least another generation of tutelage by the Mother Country.”
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