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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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If you had to pick *one* good thing about the UK's membership of the EU, what would your absolute top thing be? (Like my "consequences of Brexit" thread a couple of weeks back, which focused on greatest fears, this works best if you really stick to just the one. Thanks.)
In other words, if you were given a postage-stamp sized thank you card to send to the EU to express gratitude for our membership, what's the one thing you'd most like to draw attention to?

[So much of Brexit is of necessity about fear. Thought it was time for a positive thread!]
BTW, it would be fab if you could retweet the top post in this thread to get a wider sample size. Thanks in advance!
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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I wonder what the Remain Alliance would look like if Labour played ball? And I mean really played ball, ie stood down candidates in the areas where the LD or other parties had a better chance? And vice versa for RA parties and Labour?
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/the-re…
Could it be a win-win even though their Brexit views aren't aligned.

For example (making this up, so pls don't say it doesn't match polls!)

No pact
RA parties: 50 MPs
Labour 260 MPs
Tories/BP: most of rest

Pact
RA parties: 70 MPs
Labour 280 MPs
Tories/BP: most of rest
One scenario, the Tories have a majority or a working majority. The other they don't. And in the second scenario, the RA parties have enormously more power collectively than in the first.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Here's why the LibDems pivoting to out-and-out Remain (away from "second referendum with a Remain option and we'll campaign for Remain") is so important: if not the largest party, they could well end up kingmakers. If they're Remain to the core, the price of coalition is clear.
"If you want power, cancel Brexit. We'll support you." (Or words to that effect.) Question is, whether Corbyn really wants to be PM enough to accept that massive trade-off. But at least it's crystal clear.
Because if you look at the LibDems right now, their messaging is fantastic. It's snappy, and unequivocal: ("Stop Brexit", "B-word to Brexit", "Remain Alliance")

But when you look at the convoluted path to actually getting remain, you start to get a itchy feeling.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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I've had some amazingly thoughtful tweets in response to my question about the "one best thing" aspect of EU membership. What's been interesting, apart from the numerous mentions of "peace", is how many people picked freedom of movement.
Thing is, I'd probably go along with that. It's a tough toss-up between that and the SM+CU. But the number one best thing about the EU seems to also be the one thing that most Leavers seem intent on getting rid of. It's hard to see how those two are in any way compatible.
What this suggests is that any talk of a healing or coming together isn't just optimistic, it's *impossible*.
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