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Boris Johnson is a political animal driven by nothing but amoral selfish ambition.
1⃣ He knew leaving the Single Market would harm the British People, yet saw Brexit as a way to ride a wave of nationalism into Downing Street.
#ToryLeadershipContest
2⃣ He spent 2 years telling the British people Brexit was about taking back control then he was willing to vote for a deal which he knew would mean less control than we'd have as an EU member.
#ToryLeadershipContest
3⃣ I know most of you Tories don't care about social & environmental rights, so I won't appeal to your morality.
But the deregulation Boris Johnson is talking about would make UK-EU trade more bureaucratic and add to NHS costs.
#ToryLeadershipContest
4⃣ We're already seen as a bit of a joke now... But Boris Johnson as PM?
🤡Who can forget his world debut as foreign secretary!?🤡
#ToryLeadershipContest
5⃣He tugged on the strings of our country's heart, then ripped it out.
He lied about the effect Brexit would have on the NHS. (See @TheBMA).
And he did so while working with Daniel Hannan who says the NHS is a mistake and should be bought by US firms!
#BorisJohnsonShouldNotBePM
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Femi
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In 2017 the majority voted for Parties whose manifestos opposed #NoDealBrexit.
So what does that make No-Dealers? *Checks "Leave" phrasebook*

"Losers"
"Enemies of the people"
"Traitors"
"Against the will of the people"
"Brexi-tears" (OK that one was me😅)
researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefi…
So when Boris Johnson is appointed as UK Prime Minister by a handful of Tories, and tries to drag us out of the EU on No-Deal against the express will of the People, I trust we'll all LOUDLY remind him he has no mandate for it.
#BorisJohnsonShouldNotBePM #ToryLeadershipContest
Thank you @faisalislam for laying this out in a thread so I don't have to!
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
I'm on LBC from 3am-4am Monday morning.
Why?
Because **** sleep, that's why!
#EUelectionResults
P.S. I said yes to this fully expecting an hour of "So Femi, the Brexit Party won, so a second referendum is dead?"
1⃣ In concrete terms, a huge Brexit Party victory doesn't achieve anything, for the reasons I outlined below a few weeks ago.
2⃣ The most likely consequence of a massive Brexit Party victory is that we leave with the deal that's been that's been negotiated. #EUelectionResults
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
For the record, I fundamentally dislike Theresa May. I think she's a morally sub-par human being, but anyone criticising her for almost crying at the end... after what she's put herself through these past three years... I'd have been in tears for MOST of that speech.
#Trexit
Also, please read my words carefully (above). I'm saying I understand her feelings but that they don't change my analysis of her as a person.
I'm expressing empathy, NOT sympathy.
#Trexit
#Trexit
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The Leave Alliance
@LeaveHQ
1. It may be an unpopular opinion, but the PM trying her best to avoid crashing out without a deal is no bad thing. She is making every effort to get her deal through - and suboptimal though it may be, it gets the ball rolling on a managed withdrawal process.

#Brexit
2. Nobody wants a long delay, least of all @theresa_may because it damages her party, but she knows (as do all grown ups) that dropping out without a deal would be a major blow to the economy and a massive political failure. One that could hand the keys to Number 10 to Corbyn.
3. If Brexiter MPs are concerned it could turn into a long delay then it's down to them to vote for the deal so we actually do leave the EU. If then the house of commons still refuses to ratify the deal then we can say unequivocally that parliament is refusing to implement Brexit
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Andrew Parnall: I Swear Because I Care
@dontbrexitfixit
So, as Mr Farage @nigel_farage said, this leaflet popped through our doors before the Referendum at a cost of £9M, This is probably the only research most people did, it was certainly true for me. Like most people, I took the EU for granted, it was just, there.

1/11
It was the most important decision of our lives, the government made it clear that we already control our own borders and there would be tough new restrictions on access to our welfare system for new EU migrants. The government was clear we should stay in the EU.

2/11
This is the first mention of leaving the Single Market, not that 'we will' as Farage keeps saying, but leaving will create uncertainty & risk. The government made it clear being in the Single Market means more jobs which rather disagrees with Mr Corbyn's Jobs First #Brexit

3/11
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Pete North
@PeteNorth303
Another boring #Brexit thread.

1. People are right to observe that the EU does flex its own rules but very often when it does it is invoking emergency measures or articles inside a particular legal framework. That, though, cannot extend to #Brexit.
2. When the UK leaves it will become a third country. Standard third country treatment will apply. That new relationship could evolve to include further customs cooperation but it would have to be part of a formal agreement.
3. What the EU is not going to do is enter any agreement that compromises its own legal order. Any agreement allowing the free(ish) movement of goods would mean that any UK regulatory divergence would have to be supervised and mutually agreed.
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Pete North
@PeteNorth303
1. The #Brexit question has always been one of what sort of relationship we want with the EU if not actual membership. Brexiters bleat "we just want trade" failing to note that regulatory harmonisation is central to free movement of goods.
2. The minimum condition of entry into the EU marketplace is compliance. Any third country can do that but without the ability to self-certify goods for circulation in the market they are subject to full third country controls at the borders.
3. Members of the single market avoid those customs controls by way of having the ability to self certify goods. This is why the single market is more pertinent to free movement of goods than the customs union.
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Pete North
@PeteNorth303
1. So with #Brexit, we now have a provisional whole UK political agreement that we will have regulatory alignment with a view to maintaining free movement of goods. The future trade agreement will have to respect those conditions.
2. That is a long winded way of say that so far as goods are concerned, we are staying in the single market. That though does not take into account services, air travel and the many other areas covered by the EEA agreement. That is still for negotiation.
3. When it comes down to that, it is likely that the UK will wish to preserve as much access to the EU aviation market as possible with the same or similar rights to the EEA. We have, as yet, no concrete position on what the UK will ask for in terms of services.
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Jon Worth
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Having been accused of “No attempt at serious analysis” of David Davis’s speech yesterday, let’s do some then, shall we.

A little thread.

1/11
The headline quote from the speech - trailed by the UK Government *before* it was delivered - was to not “putting politics above prosperity”.

To even choose such a line is odd. The UK Brexit referendum was a vote to do *precisely* that.

2/11
Whether right to put politics above prosperity is every individual’s call to make, but it is pretty hard to say the economic case won the referendum.

But to make that the centre piece of a speech to an intelligent audience in Germany is embarrassing.

3/11
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