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243,922 Brexit Job Losses 🇬🇧
@MrHickmott
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Okay, folks, we need to put names to the rabble collectively known as the #CabinetOfHorrors...

Johnson: #JihadiJohnson
Gove: #SlithyGove
Raab: #DemonicDominic
Mogg: the #HauntedPencil
Rudd: #AmberRudderless
Patel: #PritiVacant
Williamson: #PrivatePike
As there are now two Dominics in the #CabinetOfHorrors, I propose the following supplementary nomenclature :

Raab remains #DemonicDominic
Cummings is #UnelectedDominic
And don't forget...

Villiers: #CruellaDeVilliers
Ah, I nearly forgot about Andrea Leadsom, for whom there is a special place reserved in hell:

Loathsome: #TheSoullessOne

I think that's about it. Apart from #CoxCounsel. But there's not much call for him.
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233,931 Brexit Job Losses 🇬🇧
@MrHickmott
When a bloke from Wigan says to @lisanandy “Look, love, it was better before we were in the EU. I remember it, you don’t,” what he's saying is he wants it to be 1970 again.

Someone should tell him that leaving the EU won't bring back chips in newspaper.

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
And what @lisanandy is saying is, the only way to prevent populists mopping up the votes of disillusioned voters is to emulate the populists - even though you know that their snake oil will only make things worse.

You can lead appeasers to history books but can't make them read.
Here's an alternative hypothesis. I noticed that all the people interviewed by the Guardian were old. Could it be that many young people have moved elsewhere because the town offers them no future? If so (and I'm not saying it is), Brexit will only make it worse.
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218,839 Brexit Job Losses 🇬🇧
@MrHickmott
Don't pity Leavers. They ignored our pleas for 33 months despite us telling them how Brexit will tear apart our families, our lives, our businesses; and despite their complete inability to produce a single practical benefit. They deserve to feel the full anguish of defeat.
In time, Leavers will realise that casting a vote to trash the United Kingdom probably wasn't their finest hour. The sensible thing they could do would be to keep quiet and hope eventually everyone forgets how they voted.
Let me clarify that a "Leaver" is not just someone who in 2016 voted Leave. A "Leaver" is someone who, even now after all we've learned since then, calls themselves a Leaver. Most people are neither Remainers nor Leavers. Those who are have chosen a side - it's a choice.
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218,839 Brexit Job Losses 🇬🇧
@MrHickmott
Government losing 1-0 at half time.
It's 1-1 at full time. PENALTIES!...
Government loses 2-1 on penalties!
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