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The people who argued throughout a society-shredding referendum that we'd get a great deal if we voted for Brexit because of how badly the EU need us, should not be allowed to say people voted for No Deal.

There are few moral absolutes in this world. That's one of them.
That means Boris Johnson has no right to say people voted for No Deal.
@BorisJohnson
#NoMandateForNoDeal
That means Dominic Raab definitely has no right to say people voted for No Deal. @DominicRaab
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That means Nigel Farage has no right to say people voted for No Deal.
@Nigel_Farage
#NoMandateForNoDeal
That means Richard Tice, the chairman of @brexitparty_uk, has no right to say people voted for No Deal.
@TiceRichard
#NoMandateForNoDeal
Michael Gove was one of the heads of the official Leave Campaign and he's not ever trying to PRETEND people voted for No Deal.
@michaelgove
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Global Brexit Britain vs Medicine

Medicines from EU:
You can't argue that not being integrated into the EU market won't add time/cost.

Outside EU:
Longer import distances = more expensive + not good with urgent treatment.

So ANY version of Brexit lowers UK access to medicines.
What happens if you reduce a country's access to medicines?
People die.
That's No-Deal. That's what you're supporting.
That's what almost the entire UK medical community is saying will happen.
I do not want to see what happens to UK society if people know that their loved ones died, because their neighbour voted for something they hoped would help the country, but despite watching it go off the rails for 3 years with all the reassurances broken, they were too stubborn.
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My first office job after uni was working for a company in Worcester that sold roofing materials to construction firms in France. There were no tariffs on their goods which is why they could afford to bring in a fresh young bilingual law grad to represent them.
#OppressedByTheEU
Tuition fees don't exist in France. While I was being educated in France with an EU Erasmus grant, I made a best friend and got so good at French, a French girl thought I was faking being English to get with her...
Qualifying me to work in international domains.
#OppressedbytheEU
Not to mention... language programmes are like 75% female so Erasmus year was the most romantically... interesting year of my life.
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While one can argue Commissioners should be directly elected (counters below*), Commissioners are appointed by heads of government who are *usually* democratically put in place by the whole population of each country. Rather than just by 160,000 of its most Conservative citizens.
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One could also argue that directly electing the Commission rather than having the national heads of government do it would be a significant step towards the very EU superstate the eurosceptics fear and also that it would have an even lower turnout than the Parliament elections
And at the same time we do need to remember what the Commission is and does:
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
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