Thread by @fascinatorfun

“the task ...is the same one May faced for 3 yrs:how do we deliver the 2016 ref result in a way that is good for the prosperity, security & integrity of the UK?
If anyone thinks this is an easy task, they don’t understand the magnitude of the situation.”

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

2/. “First, we should not pretend that leaving the EU without a deal will be anything other than enormously harmful to our economy, weaken our security relationships and threaten the integrity of the union.”

This is powerful stuff from Lord Chancellor, David Gauke.

3/.

“Loose talk about no deal has given credibility to the simplistic slogans of the Brexit party and resulted in millions voting for them.”

4/ “If a candidate believes in a no deal exit, they should be straight with the British people that it will come at a very considerable cost. That cost won’t be wished away by glib assertions that we should simply have “confidence in GB” or about how we overcame adversity in WW2

5/ “The second hard reality is that there is no easy alternative option waiting to be negotiated with the EU. The withdrawal agreement is highly unlikely to be re-opened but changes in the political declaration might be possible.”

6/ Realism re Parliamentary Numbers.

Gauke is sending out a warning

I know he isn’t putting himself forward in the PM 3 legged race (he has more sense) but @DavidGauke and @JustineGreening are sounding more like PM material than those strutting for the job. (They’ve more sense)

7/. “The fourth hard reality is that a general election before the issue of Brexit is resolved is more than likely to put Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.”

Brexit is going to eat the next PM and they know it.

Has anyone in their membership any grasp of the destruction they’ve caused?