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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Brexit Resistance Checklist
Here are a few things that could make a difference, if we all do them. A million little pebbles equal an avalanche!
- Sign the petition to revoke Article 50
- Write/email your MP
- Join the People's Vote march in central London tomorrow, if you're able
- Call radio phone-ins
- Write a "Letter to the Editor" of a newspaper that carries them, either online or in print
- Use well-sourced facts to call out lies on social media (politely, or the effectiveness is lost)
- Spread the word, and encourage others to act too.
Good luck! 🍀
Here's the petition (yesterday the site was having a lot of problems so please persevere and keep reloading if it goes down)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/2415…
Here's an easy way to write to your MP...
mysociety.org/wehelpyou/cont…
Here's all the info you need about the People's Vote march tomorrow...
Finally, a threat compiling various Brexit fact threads I've written in the last few months.

(Sorry, you'll have to find the radio phone-ins and newspaper letter pages yourself, I don't have a list.)
Parting thought: we've all got our own unique stories to tell, so wherever possible *make Brexit personal*. Talk about your EU colleague who left, your prescription that couldn't be filled, your specific fears about no-deal, etc. Stories connect hearts to hearts - v effective!
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Brexit has caused massive fault lines to appear in both the Tory and Labour parties, but different scenarios are likely to impact them to a greater or lesser extent.

No deal Brexit cracks both open like a nut, but the Tories probably come out of it with more damage than Labour.
A soft Brexit splits the Tories, but wouldn't bother Labour so much.

A pre-Brexit snap GE would be disastrous for Labour because it would lead to internal civil war over what Brexit stance to take. Tories as the party of Brexit are less affected.
Revoking Article 50 and staying hurts Labour, but destroys the Tories.

A post-Brexit GE hurts the Tories (because stuff will have gone wrong, and blame game in full swing) but probably unites Labour, since the concern over which Brexit stance to adopt will be gone.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Theresa May has singlehandedly radicalised millions of Remainers with her rock-solid inability to compromise on Brexit in any way, shape or form.

Looking back at the morning of the referendum result. I'd been up all night, watching the result come in, ageing at a year an hour.
Then David Dimbleby pronounced the final verdict, like a doctor communicating a terminal illness.

I was shocked. Utterly blank. I cried. The rest of the day passed in zombie mode, not least because of the all-nighter (note to self: what's ok as a student isn't 25 years later.)
I was angry. Confused. Lost. But after a while I started to think about the future. My Norwegian friend seems to do OK - perhaps if the UK could be like Norway it wouldn't be too bad.

Then the red lines came in. And the interminable circular speeches.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Brexit has shown there are genuinely decent upstanding Tories, just as it has revealed the responsible adults in Labour and other parties. But I can't help but direct my ire at the Tory Party because they are the Government. The situation is too dire for nuance.
So to the decent MPs, I say this gently: When you look in the mirror, if you think, however fleetingly "I feel ashamed to be a Tory right now" why not DO something about it? There has never been a more propitious time to gather with like-minded souls regardless of old allegiances
Tear down the system, and build something new and wonderful in its place. A new kind of politics, driven by outcomes not by rigid party structures, in which collaboration and opposition come on a policy by policy basis, not as a matter of rigid obligation. If not now, when?
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