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When will the media get its head around the fact that there was a majority for Brexit, but not for the No-Deal version of Brexit?
The fact that most Brexiteers want No-Deal is irrelevant, because... and I shouldn't have to explain this to anyone who has ever studied maths....

The majority of a majority isn't always a majority! Especially when the first majority is just 51.9%!
This Brexit voter DEFINITELY didn't want #NoDealBrexit:
This Brexit voter DEFINITELY didn't want #NoDealBrexit either:
This Brexit voter clearly stated he didn't want #NoDealBrexit.
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Femi
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It is mathematically impossible to please the 52% who voted for Brexit because they wanted different outcomes.
Anyone who says "I didn't vote for a deal. I just voted to leave" is basically saying "I don't understand how international relations work because I believed Brexit wouldn't inevitably lead to a new treaty between the UK and the EU."
If we leave with the deal, loads of Brexit voters will be furious. If we leave with no-deal, loads of Brexit voters will be furious.
So why are we doing this?
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
This not only proves that Brexit voters voted for COMPLETELY INCOMPATIBLE OUTCOMES, but it shows that a #NoDealBrexit was not the one that even most LEAVE voters intended!
UKIP! BLOODY UKIP was only 21% No-Deal in 2016!

Can we PLEASE be mature!?⬇️
The narrative of "we'll hold all the cards in the negotiations" was proven wrong and now you're pretending you voted for the thing you said would never happen. (No-Deal = tariffs & damage to EU-UK trade)
Imagine if they asked remainers which treaties they voted for:
Norway Deal - 0%
No Deal - 0%
EU Treaties - 100%
Canada Deal - 0%

So again, I ask, why have we added together the votes of Leavers who wanted completely incompatible outcomes?
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
Have you ever signed a contract, and let the other side write the terms of that contract 3 years later?

When they had the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement, every single voter was mailed a copy of the agreement, so they got to see the deal they were signing first.

#Brexit
The Brexiteers who keep saying it would be undemocratic to let people vote on the specifics of our negotiated Brexit, are just lying to you. They fully understand the logic. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg for example...
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Then there's Boris Johnson himself, who literally said that a Vote to leave was a tool to renegotiate our relationship with the EU.
telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/0…
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Right. It's Friday. A quick #Brexit sitrep, as I understand it, with chats from both sides.

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