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Alex Andreou
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Professional dissenters like @Fox_Claire, who built careers on unpopular opinions, now drone on about the absolute sanctity of The Will of The People. When their views are unpopular, they’re libertarians. The moment they get to 52%, they hug majoritarianism. Hypocrites, in short.
They infantilise an entire electorate, likening it to a tantrum-prone toddler, by warning of the violent offence it will take at any suggestion it may have been wrong. Having spent years berating majorities for taking offence at them just “saying it how it is”.
Problem is, historically, we KNOW majorities often get things horribly wrong. This is a matter of incontrovertible fact. Is it respectful for our elected representatives to keep shtum, when they see looming disaster, for fear of injuring people’s sensibilities? Is that democracy?
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So, @LanceForman, owner of bespoke smokery @hformanandson, a multimillionaire who's made his fortune selling smoked salmon to the metropolitan elite at £70 a fillet, is now standing as a candidate for the Brexit Party. Promising to smash the metropolitan elite. For realzies.
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Please stop talking about how denying the EU our £39b (over ten years) will get UK a better deal. It will get UK an "alright then, off you fuck". EU27 have an annual GDP of £15 TRILLION. Germany has £300b sitting in its current account. They can cover this from their coin jar.
It is not about the £39b and it never was. The same thing the UK has failed to understand over 45 years is still the thing that plagues its exit negotiating strategy: The EU is a rules-based organisation. The rules are supreme and will not be broken for a non-member.
The notion that this economic giant will compromise its internal cohesion, weaken the glue that holds it together, make longterm decision that can turn into existential challenges for f'kin pocket money, is possibly the most deluded one touted by Brexiters.
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After which, dear Twitter, he blocked me.

#BulldogSpirit
Full disclosure: I did also call him "an utter shaven bollock". Maybe that's what did it.
On the bright side, I think I have discovered The Tweet Where Grammar Goes To Die. Bigots like @ddent140674, attacking my English while making a dozen mistakes in two sentences, are the best.
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