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Schona Jolly QC
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History will not remember Corbyn kindly as he fudges & obfuscates his way, surrounded by advisors who refuse to see Brexit for what it is.

And this promised land of workers’ rights protections with a @UKLabour deal? The unedifying shame of so few people trying to dupe so many.
There is something seriously contorted about Labour’s insistence they have had “fantastic discussions” on #workersrights with this govt that has shown zero interest in protecting rights, or doing anything other than playing games and spinning time.
I’ve offered privately to speak to @UKLabour MPs about what protection of #workersrights & other rights, means post Brexit. It has not been taken up. We are at crunch time.

I’m starting to conclude Corbyn’s team simply don’t want to hear hard truths.
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Schona Jolly QC
@WomaninHavana
For a glimpse of why we were outclassed & out-negotiated by a transparent EU27, Storyville’s Brexit: Behind Closed Doors is a bird’s eye look into how Britain had its “head in the f***ing clouds”. The mortifying incompetence & arrogance of #GlobalBritain. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Mark Rutte, Dutch PM, privately talks about a meeting he had with PM May. British press reported he would plead for more flexibility which wasn’t true.

“The British press..should not always listen to the spin coming out of Downing St.”

Think how much time we’d have saved.
It feels almost creepy to watch May’s early Brexit speeches. It was all so transparent, so much was predictable - & predicted.

So much of our media (but not all) obsessed/es over the personalities of Brexit, not the predictable & painful complexities of Brexit.

#LocalBritain
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Schona Jolly QC
@WomaninHavana
Journalists need to stop using lazy “ultra-Remain” language. Remainers are still the same Remainers wanting a status quo. Not suggesting we join the euro or Schengen or any more entrenched version than we already have.

We vote for Remain parties wanting the same thing.
There was a time when many Remainers may have accepted the pointlessness of a truly soft Brexit.

That time has long gone.

The duplicity, disrespect, division, disruption & the sheer incompetence of 3 years of Brexit stagnation, plus the lies & criminality.

It affected us too.
That doesn’t make us ultra-Remainers.

The language is an attempt to find a false equivalence with the hard Brexiteers. Their position takes an extreme on every ground.

So credit the Remain parties for a consistent stance on the status quo, not an extreme one.
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Schona Jolly QC
@WomaninHavana
“You are really screwing yourselves royally for the future by producing a substandard workforce and children that are malnourished.” ⁦@Alston_UNSR⁩ UN Rapporteur warns Britain’s preoccupation with Brexit will leave the country severely diminished. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty @Alston_UNSR on Britain’s declining standards & the distraction of Brexit.
No kind words for @UKLabour either from @Alston_UNSR as he describes “a missed opportunity for the Labour party not to be pursuing these issues, because clearly behind a lot of the Brexit debate is a concern about economic security and the way the country is going”.
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Sam Butler
@SamInFleet
Children in Victorian poverty in our schools: @Channel4News this evening.

My dad died when I was small. Subsequently, I had two episodes of homelessness as a child (early 1960s). I stole food to feed my Mum and me.

When I became a teacher in inner London, I still saw poverty...
But it seemed *comparatively* unusual, resulting from particular circumstances (like my experiences).

What's become clear in the last 5 years is that it's no longer unusual, it's no longer temporary, it's no longer linked to illness or 'inadequacy'. Now it's a feature of life.
In part I blame myself. By the late 1980s, as I watched families with children at my school find it harder and harder to cope, it was becoming clear that Tory policies were creating a poverty time bomb; but I was in a sort of denial, as I tried to keep my own head above water.
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Philip Boucher-Hayes
@boucherhayes
History and Geography were dropped as core subjects in Britain. Only 40% now study it at GCSE (junior cycle).

It’s a bit of a leap from there to #Brexit but it must be part of the background picture.
History is compulsory in Britain only up until age 14. The most recent figure I can find from 2009 suggests only 4% sat a History GCSE exam. Making it less popular than Design & Technology.
It is even less popular at A Level. More students sat the Psychology paper than History.

The even bigger problem though is “this sceptered isle” approach to History. It’s all Agincourt, Cromwell and Spitfires.
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Lesley Miller
@LesleyMillercyp
#brexit 33
Germany earned €2.9 billion from Greece’s debt crisis, their supposed equal members

@EURACTIV euractiv.com/section/econom…
#Brexit 34
Multinationals avoid the total cost2UK of Freedom of Movement & Freedom of Establishment is about £40 Bn/YEAR. The effect on UK public finances is 2drain the resources available 4 OUR pensions & benefits in the future. Get ready 2work until you drop!
globalbritain.co.uk/wp-content/upl…£30bn-cost-of-EU-migration-FINAL.pdf
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
1) #Brexit, alt right & Labour positioning
One for the @OwenJones84 @mattzarb and @jeremycorbyn 's of the world

The seems to be a weird disconnect in Labour & it's commentators

They'll protest about a certain recent visit & about far right supporters of Robinson

But not Brexit
2) this is plain bizarre. Brexit, nationalism, alt right, authoritarian gov. - it's all connected, it's all part of the same fascist beast.
Protesting about bits of it is like saying "I don't like the look of that Lion's paws but I'm perfectly happy with my head in its mouth"
3) as successive Tory PMs have learned over & over, you can't placate far righters - populists & zealots don't do compromise, any olive branch is a sign of weakness.

Labour party position on #Brexit is exactly that kind of appeasement
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Lesley Miller
@LesleyMillercyp
#Brexit 1
Cadbury moved factory 2 Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved 2Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover recently agreed 2 build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, same company who trashed our steel industry & emptied workers pension funds.
#Brexit 2
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
#Brexit 3
Dyson gone 2 Malaysia, with EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone 2Poland with EU grant,employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone 2far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys & models gone from UK along with patents all with EU grants
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
1) Megathread - Yes, the #Brexit vote is illegitimate, and it's not elitist to say so

Simply put, a vote that is based on misconceptions and illusions but which *cannot* be reversed is an affront to democracy therefore the very concept of the referendum is illegitimate
2) So why was the #Brexit vote illegitimate? Well, broadly speaking:
1) The Brexit we "voted for" ends FoM, the ECJ & payments to EU
2) This will be severely damaging to the economy & jobs
3) If the public was asked today the same question but were told the above,Remain would win
3) Leave simply would not win if the costs of the #Brexit they promised were revealed honestly in a second referendum. The only way they could win is if these costs were obscured again

buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
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