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Jo Maugham QC
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This, for me, is the great mystery of Brexit. I've never understood how it happened or why it happens. Why is it still politically potent to badge as an "ideological" position one held by a majority of the country?
If you've heard me speak you'll have heard me try and articulate the - for me genuinely shocking and incomprehensible - act done to our language by the Referendum. How did it become, how was it made, taboo to talk of Brexit not happening? I keep looking for an explanation.
"moral and political aberrations almost always start with linguistic neglect" (via @SE25A). cirsd.org/en/horizons/ho…
Thank you for writing that, @ChristineGraeff.
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Are Channel Four also paranoid conspiracy theorists, @RobBurl, or do you only defame those without a media platform to defend themselves?
I am also aware that the BBC started and then dropped a piece of investigatory journalism into collusion between Vote Leave and Darren Grimes. I have the emails in which they say exactly that.
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Jo Maugham QC
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If you want to increase public spending ditch Brexit altogether. Keeping it involves only degrees of bad.
Here is what we can see about what has happened to our economy since we voted for Brexit (chart from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility).
Here is the Government's own Long Term Economic Analysis of different models of Brexit (November 2018)
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Thought experiment thread 👇; can one explain British history as a country regarded as a commodity for sale by its rulers? Would that interpretation principally explain #Brexit?
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To clarify, I am remain, but I feel a 2nd ref is monumentally risky & perhaps dangerous:-

1. Polls haven't changed much, result could easily be the same
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1. The one component missing from #Brexit is an intellectual foundation. Eurosceptics once had one. There was a committee meeting twenty years ago in a Salisbury farmhouse twenty years ago and that's the last time we collectively gave it any thought.
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By all accounts Rees Mogg is making his bid for Tory Leadership, which in turn may lead to yet another GE.
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Maintaining the current status quo ("our Brexit is better than their Brexit") will lead to a similar GE outcome
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Labour will be no more attractive to Tory voters than they were last year and the same goes for Tory party
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