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"What if it's 52-48 the other way on a lower turnout?"

A) Even if it's 50.001%, a vote where people get to see the precise Brexit on offer overrides one where they don't.
B) 17. 4M supported many different versions of Brexit. Now there's only one I EXPECT fewer Leave voters.
I honestly hate the fact that politicians keep peddling that ridiculous argument as if people are too stupid to see that a vote after we've negotiated the terms of our exit isn't the same as a vote in the dark.
"But you agreed to pay for my meal"

"Yes but I didn't know the bill was going to be £39 billion."

"I can't just keep asking you whether you're willing to pay for my meal until you give the answer you want. You made a decision. If you say no now, what is it? Best of three?"
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The national conversation is a huge part of healing the country over Brexit.
If, after years of one side saying Brexit won't make us poorer because German car manufacturers will make the EU give us a deal, those same people push No-Deal...
One side will forever be seen as liars.
The Brexit debate was enough to break up families.
Every time anyone on the Remain side said Brexit would damage trade the Leave advocate would say "You really think they'd let that happen? They need us more than we need them. We'll hold all the cards and get the deal WE want".
If Brexit had gone like this, we could have healed:
L: Let's leave!
R: Don't make us poorer!
L: We won't be poorer. We'll get a deal because the EU need us AND we'll take back control.
EU: Here's full EU market access without following any EU rules.
L: See!
R: Guess we'll be ok
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
Thread of Brexit Arguments and Responses :
"The EU need us more than we need them"
1️⃣ NO-DEAL Brexit makes trade with our 27 closest markets more expensive.
For the EU 27, it's just ONE of theirs.

2️⃣I buy more from asda than it buys from me. But it won't compromise its relationship with 27M other customers to please me.
"We already voted"
Ultimately Brexit creates a new EU-UK relationship. Did we know what it would be in 2016? Would all Brexit voters prefer the deal we negotiated to just staying? No?

Ending our current EU-UK relationship for a specific new one needs informed democratic consent.
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Femi
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Richard Tice reassured millions of ordinary working people they could vote Brexit without being financially harmed because there was a legal certainty that we would leave WITH A DEAL.

But Tice is the Chief Executive of Quidnet Capital and former multinational CEO. He'll be fine.
This is why I KNOW the @brexitparty_uk are the bad guys.

Because if you know people are already struggling in this country, and you know you reassured them they'd be OK if they voted Brexit by promising we'd do it with a deal, to push for No Deal requires total moral bankruptcy.
I'm not angry that Richard Tice represents the elite that many working class Brexit voters wanted to take back control from.

Privilege isn't the problem. Further disadvantaging the already disadvantaged from a position of privilege... THAT is the problem.
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