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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Jess Phillips: "This is just some psychodrama in the Tory Party." Fantastic speech. That's just a snippet. Head and shoulders highlight of the afternoon. Why? Because it was unfiltered. She spoke her mind without running anything through a "is this politically acceptable" filter.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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When it comes to the environment, workers' rights, human rights, food standards etc. do you trust the current UK Government *and all future UK Governments* to always look out for the best interests of the UK more than the EU does?
Once we leave, nobody's watching the watchmen. We will set our own environmental standards, oversee our own food standards, with our own monitoring and compliance bodies. Right now, EU law sets a minimum "floor" below which the UK cannot go.
We can aim higher than that floor, of course - the EU sets minimum not maximum standards. But we can't erode things below that safety net. Outside the EU, we're putting 100% faith in our Government never to bow to outside interests and whittle away at our protections.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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The EU warns of what we know to be true: a UK Government administering its own post-Brexit environmental laws could sell us all down the river compared to the EU protection we currently enjoy. If not the current Government, any future Government could.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Why? Because no UK Government can "tie the hands" of a future Government under domestic law. EU law would trump that. So right now, what the EU environmental laws do is provide a FLOOR below which we cannot weaken our own laws. (We can make ours stronger than that, if we want.)
After Brexit, that protection is gone. There is no floor any more. Boils down to this: "Do you trust the current UK Government, and all future UK Governments to come, to always look out for the best interests of the UK more than the EU does?"
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Late for breakfast, so my brain may be fuzzy. But do you concur with my logic here? Looking at "revoke A50" petition signing patterns, it becomes interesting when the number of signatures exceeds the number of votes for the 2nd place candidate at GE2017.
livefrombrexit.com/petitions/2415…
That would appear to mean that, assuming those signing the petition also vote the same way, the votes garnered by the second place candidate can only increase (assuming they're the soft/no Brexit candidate)
So for example (fictional numbers)

Candidate A: 17,472
Candidate B: 12,624
Petition signatures: 14,232

That would suggest that Candidate B should get at least 14,232 votes at the next GE if they're the obvious "stop the disaster of a hard Brexit" candidate.

What do you think?
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Paul Daly
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The impending débâcle attributable to the Attorney General's advice that yesterday's theatre in Strasbourg does not change the Withdrawal Agreement in any meaningful way is, sadly, only the latest illustration of HMG's flawed approach: all tactics, no strategy

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Trying to get @Geoffrey_Cox on board was a reasonable tactical move.

Have him provide a fig leaf (or codpiece) to allow dissenters to climb down whilst retaining their modesty.

But it was risky and has now backfired spectacularly.

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This is only the latest in a series of disastrous tactical moves since Theresa May became Prime Minister.

Supporting the Brady Amendment and essentially voting against her own Withdrawal Agreement was another.

Get the party onside!

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Sergio Graziosi
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What the hell is @jeremycorbyn doing?
Why is he enabling #Tory #Brexit?
Is this the final betrayal?
No, it isn't.
It's the predicted effect of decisions taken 2-3 years ago. All things considered, it's not as bad as it could have been (thanks to #StopBrexit crowd).

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To understand why, I need to outline 2 important mechanisms that most people, politicians and commentators seem to ignore, dismiss or simply don't get. They have different and somewhat opposite consequences, but are both decisive in the current & foreseeable predicaments.
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1st and foremost: the biggest constraint that applies to political decision-making comes from the past decisions & policies.
It is a massive constraint.
Cameron COULD NOT convincingly campaign for #Remain, because his own policies CREATED the discontent channelled by #Leave.
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Ragnorakishere
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Today I read this article goo.gl/uYwFm8 & wondered what had become of James Bundy. He remains a member of the #Tory party with a interest in National Identity goo.gl/AbwRad We have seen the rise of identity politics in the #USA & #Europe
The rise of right wing populism in politics resulted in this latest episode goo.gl/PL1zjW Strange is not then when Tories are in power division and hate grows.
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South Cambs LibDems
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A short thread on how we got to where we are:

#Tory Party 2015:

Cameron:
Those extremist Eurosceptics in my party need to be stopped.
I'll call a Referendum on Europe once and for all
I'm a winner, I've just won a GE no one expected & Scottish Indy campaign
I know how to win
#Tory Party 2016:

Leaver #Tories: Let's
Take Back Control
They need us more than they need us
Those German Car makers will get Merkel to give us a good deal
It'll be the easiest trade deal in the world

People: Ok - let's #Brexit

Cameron: I know I started this but I'm off
May:
I'm here.
Strong and Stable.

May:
There will be no General Election till 2020
We will be out of the Customs Union
We will not be under ECJ rule
I'll remove your rights to live & work in EU but I'll call it a good thing because Immigrants are bad
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Damo #GTTO
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Tory Racism - a thread. Not just any ordinary Tory though. Sure most parties have bad elements to deal with, but everyone in this list aspires to national or local leadership. Ask yourself, if the leaders are like this, what reflection is that of the whole party? #GetTheToriesOut
In 1989 David Cameron, fresh from making hang Mandela T-shirts, was given a paid-for jolly to South Africa, by a group lobbying for the apartheid sanctions to be lifted. He eventually apologised for this…17 years later. #GetTheToriesOut
In 2001, prior to becoming health minister, Andrew Lansley gave this statement to The Telegraph. #GetTheToriesOut
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Brexitshambles
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#Tory conference on the horizon & the 'no deal' #Brexit vultures circle the carcass. All the usual suspects incl' Littlewood, Singham and @SteveBakerHW for the IEA. @isaby, @Jacob_Rees_Mogg, @DanielJHannan, @patel4witham, @andreajenkyns for @matthew_elliott's BrexitCentral......
Thick as thieves...... Hannan and Singham again, Bromund of 'Anglo-American Relations,' Steifel of the Cato Institute, for the Heritage Foundation. The IEA again, this time with Arlene Foster and Nigel Dodds of the #DUP.
Flies on a turd..... Elliott's infamous 'Tax Payers' Alliance,' with Priti Patel again, and, of course @LowTaxChloe. The Bruges Group, with Patel (again), Jenkyns (again) and @OwenPaterson.....
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