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Almost every politician who pushed us to vote for Brexit in 2016 said we'd get a good deal with the EU.
We then vote for Brexit.
Now they tell us No Deal was always what was on offer.
17 million people voted to leave the EU, many of whom didn't even consider No Deal as an option... They expected a decent deal. Like this man.
Let's be really clear on something:
It was the Remain campaign who said we'd be leaving the Single Market and Customs Union and you called them Project Fear.
The Leave Camp promised everything from a Free Trade Deal to full Single Market access.
All of these guys for example...
@DominicRaab even said it would be SCAREMONGERING / PROJECT FEAR to suggest we'd be leaving without a deal...
David Davis...
And Michael Gove, one of the heads of the Official Leave Campaign, Vote Leave said this was never about No Deal.
Then of course there's Farage and Norway...
Is it possible:
Farage & Brexiteers pushed Cameron into a referendum on a 100% undefined Brexit, told us the EU need us so badly we'd get a good deal so we'd vote Leave, then waited for talks to fail leaving us with the most extreme version that very few but them actually wanted?
Like I said...
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Femi
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If you're bored of Brexit, you don't want us negotiating the actual trade deal with the EU for the next 5+ years.
You want a referendum this year so we can move on to other things.
I'll be blunt: No Deal isn't an option. We have no right to trash the Good Friday Agreement like that. So it will (in my view) be between a deal which will remove rather than add sovereignty or EU membership.
While I'm confident we'd reject the deal, if we don't, that's on us.
To those of you saying "But we voted to take back control. The only Brexit option can't be one that means less control".
In a globalised world, one country's power is always balanced against another. We sought to shift the balance in our favour by picking a fight with 27 allies!
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
I just want to make this thread, because you've seen the "who funds you" trolling on all my tweets and I know it will continue into the People's Vote campaign when it happens. The whole point of it is to suggest that my words are motivated by financial interest, not civic duty.
It's really important for them to question our motives at @OFOCBrexit, because they know why we're dangerous:
The UK has a crisis of faith in politicians and business experts because people don't trust their motives. Whereas young people fighting for their own futures is pure.
The best way to be sure whether I do this for financial reasons or because I feel morally obligated to, is to look at what I did before we started getting support from all of you.
i.e. Which came first: The campaigning or the funding?
So...
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@Femi_Sorry
The UK exports half of the fish it catches. 2/3 of that goes to EU countries with zero tariffs.

No Deal puts the UK outside of the EU's Common Extermsl tariff, which means (other than for mackerel) UK fishers will face tariffs of 9-23% selling to their main market.
Just to back that up... google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
Sorry, I shouldn't joke, but this is a direct quote from @isaby, the editor of @BrexitCentral, and it is simply TOO PERFECT not to use in this thread....
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