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Reminder: this is from Labour's 2017 Manifesto (lastest available: "Freedom of movement will end when we leave the European Union. Britain’s immigration system will change"
"We will replace income thresholds with a prohibition on recourse to public funds."
labour.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
It also makes it very, very clear that Labour would go through with Brexit, but seek their unicorn-first Brexit (sorry, jobs-first Brexit).

If you are looking for an exit from Brexit, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn isn't it.
When you read the Brexit section carefully - I mean the fine detail - there's a *lot* of unicorn. For instance all the stuff about legislation to protect environmental standards. No acknowledgement that what's made under UK law can be unmade again tomorrow. Hardly protection.
BTW, have the implications of the quote in the first tweet sunk in yet? Labour would scrap the income threshold on people coming to live and work here, meaning jobs that attract lower salaries can still be filled. But in return it will yank away their social security safety net.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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An intriguing thought:
Jeremy Corbyn may want to be World King (sorry, I just can't get over Boris Johnson's early description of his own ambitions) and hold a GE after that, but...
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And you can bet anything JC knows this. So he can be WK, try for an election, then when that fails he can say "oopsie, guess I'm your PM until 2022 then..."
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I've just written the most spine-chilling 1,000 words about Brexit! It covers Parliamentary sovereignty, and how our rights and protections will be put at risk by leaving the EU. I'm sure I had less white hair a couple of hours ago. Here's a taster. the rest will be in my book...
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We have an interesting cards-on-table situation developing now. Corbyn has made his "make me PM or suffer a no deal Brexit" threat, everyone else has weighed in. Other options (such as Harriet Harmon) look to be *theoretical* runners.
So if the VONC never happens, or it does but Corbyn fluffs the chance to become World King while at the same time muddying the waters enough so that nobody else can form a GNU, then it's going to be 100% on his head.
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