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John Rentoul
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Make of it what you will
But I make of it that ChangeUK, Lib Dems and Greens are trying to blame Labour for their failure to agree a single candidate
Peterborough is a 2-way Labour-Brexit Party fight, so Lab were never going to make way for "independent" standing on Not Labour policy
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John Rentoul
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This is unbelievable. As in nobody could believe such trite rubbish
As in, contradicted by the last line, “We need solutions, not scapegoats”
As @thhamilton says, has a subversive artist gained control of Corbyn’s Twitter account?
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John Rentoul
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What can I learn from my wrong predictions about Brexit? My @indyminds article, now outside paywall independent.co.uk/voices/editors…
I ought to learn from this and test my current assumption that we're likely to stay in the EU
This depends on two things: 1. Corbyn won't agree a Brexit deal with govt; 2. EU will continue to grant extensions
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John Rentoul
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Cross-party talks unlikely to succeed, so only way we'll leave EU is if EU leaders force us to: @JGForsyth spectator.co.uk/2019/05/can-ma…
That is also unlikely (@CER_Grant agrees with me); they don't want to risk a no-deal exit, or, indeed, to force us out at all
So I think most likely outcome is a further extension, which is why I think Brexit is probably dead
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