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Ian Dunt
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Alright kids I've tried to figure out what the fuck the Tory candidates' Brexit policies are. Christ alive it's been a grotty business politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
The remarkable thing I think is the degree of Continuity May. Most of them have variations of her policy. They;re basically indistinguishable from her at the turn of the year.
A couple are trying to be more nuanced. And a couple have gone full batshit.
Anyway, anything I may have missed or got wrong, let me know. After several hours of reading their nonsense terrible things happened in my head and I think I passed out a couple times back there.
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Ian Dunt
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Fucking bloody hell, imagine putting IDS fourth on that list.
61% sweet Jesus. People are spaffing their brains into mush.
Imagine putting Michael Howard and David Cameron above Macmillan. You monstrous, historically illiterate buffoons.
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Ian Dunt
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The politics of absence, that's what we're trapped in.
We've been here for a while now. May offered no glimpse of an internal life. She showed no sign of a genuinely-held opinion, except that she didn't like immigrants very much.
For the first months of time as PM, this blankness meant everyone projected their views onto her. Remainers said she was putting Brexiters in top jobs to make them 'own it', Leavers thought she was one of them.
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Ian Dunt
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I like Stewart. He talks like an adult. He engages people from other parties, which is the kind of thing which, you know, wins elections. But once you get past the refreshing manner, his Brexit policy is useless.
His answer on Today programme just now very instructive. What would be different between his approach and May's? Frankly very little, except circumstance. And the same nonsense about how it would be good for Britain in some unspecifiable way.
The idea he is a Remain candidate is bizarre and suggests words now mean nothing in British politics. He is a Brexiter. And given he doesn't mention the single market or customs union much, seems to be a hard Brexiter.
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