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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Social media has done a lot of good things, but it has also facilitated the rise of professional pot-stirrers: people who take a deliberately provocative and outrageous position to generate attention.
If they were instead limited to the occasional news panel appearance and to newspaper columns, we wouldn't be troubled by any of them. But thanks to social media, their artificial brew of hate and intolerance is influencing millions, and changing our society for the worse.
You know who I mean. I don't have to name names. I'm not going to deliberately give them the oxygen of publicity. And besides they'll be trending on Twitter again soon. They always do.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Here's something specific to point to when PSA say in a few months time that they're stopping production in the UK, but it has nothing to do with Brexit.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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A pattern that recurs, time and again: a Tory or Labour MP comes out publicly against their party citing a laundry-list of valid complaints (Brexit stance, antisemitism, Islamophobia etc. etc.) then... nothing.

They repeat and strengthen their criticism, then... nothing.
This goes on for a while, but other than the group of MPs formerly known as Change UK, none seem to have sufficient courage in their convictions to actually *do* something.

That's despite holding more power than usual due to the delicate balance of power in the HOC.
If half a dozen Tories quit, that's game over for no deal. If a similar number of Labour MPs did so, that might finally stir Corbyn out of his fence-sitting Brexit torpor.

But just moaning and complaining when they have real power to do much more - what's the point in that?
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Ok, time for a bit of realism on both sides of the Brexit debate!

Leavers: the German car industry isn't going to come galloping to the rescue.

Remainers: yes, aspects of the referendum were illegal. But nobody is going to overturn it on those grounds in any useful timeframe.
So it's no good waiting for the EU to blink under German pressure. Ain't gonna happen.

But it's also no good waiting for the wheels of justice to overturn the flawed, advisory 2016 referendum. That ain't gonna happen either.
Is this annoying, frustrating, infuriating, unfair, unjust etc. etc.

Yes.

Does that affect the hard truths I've pointed out?

No.

Leavers, you were lied to.

Remainers, we're never going to get proper justice.

Sucks, but that's reality for you.
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