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Jo Maugham QC
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Legislation to mandate an extension just kicks the can down the road; we need a solution.

Better to legislate that Parliament (if it has not adopted the Withdrawal Agreement) must vote on whether to approve No Deal and if it doesn't the Govt must revoke.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Each extension - there have already been two - damages the economy, harms trust in politics, entrenches division between us, distracts focus from our other pressing problems (inequality, the environment, poverty) and worsens relations with our neighbours. We need to move forward.
Let me, again, set out what I passionately believe to be the best, the only sensible, way forward. independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-…
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Jo Maugham QC
@JolyonMaugham
We've reached the stage where a former Lord Chancellor won't confirm his Government is subject to the rule of law. #StopTheCoup #FailedState
Seriously? Is there any precedent for a Government in a functioning state to indicate it regards its compliance with the law as voluntary?
So they've cancelled Parliament and now indicate they'll obey the Courts only when they want. That leaves an Executive, chosen by 90,000 disproportionately elderly, wealthy, white men, in pretty much sole charge.

Where was that on your ballot paper? #StopTheCoup
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Jo Maugham QC
@JolyonMaugham
This, by @bernardjenkin, is really poor. It just ignores as inconvenient at least twelve factors, that: (1) MPs voting in the 2015 Referendum Act could have chosen a binding referendum, as with the referendum on AV, but they chose an advisory one;
(2) the choice at (1) left them and not the Government with control over what happened next because leaving the EU would require primary legislation;
(3) during the course of the campaign No Deal was never suggested by Leave to be a possible outcome and one cannot pretend the result in 2016 was a mandate for it;
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Jo Maugham QC
@JolyonMaugham
Props to my mother-in-law, who does politely exasperated reply tweets to Trump and Johnson, gives to my crowdfunders (complaining only occasionally and privately that I have "become a somewhat expensive son-in-law") and has blossomed into a (charmingly middle-class) radical.
I'd love to identify her - she almost deserves her own gently self-parodic TV show - but I know she'd immediately be engulfed in a tidal wave of shit which she would handle with pluck but does not deserve. #UnsungMothersInLaw
The thing about my mother-in-law is that she lived through a coup as a child. She saw her parents imprisoned and was forced to fend for herself and her younger brother. What's happening here is, of course, not comparable to that. But she is very anxious.
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Staedtler
@Staedtler
The Tories are going to abandon Brexit, even if . . . who's the worst? Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the Tory worst of all? Mark Francois.
Even Mark Francois would abandon Brexit.
Imagine a general election. Tories and Labour both split right through the middle, losing millions of votes to Lib Dems and Brexit in different proportions.
Nobody will win a majority.
So the Tories know they'd lose an election with the state they're in, what do they do?

They start off in a minority, so they need the DUP, and that goes for whoever wins the leadership. That means no withdrawal agreement.
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Sunder Katwala
@sundersays
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* A key question is what 52% voted for on 23rd June 2016
* an essential source: Boris Johnson's 26th June 2016 column. First post-referendum account by Johnson (or any senior Vote Leave voice) of what he believed *in June 2016*
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2016/…
Others can disagree with Boris Johnson's 26.6.2016 account of what 52% voted for. Obvs 17.4m people had range of views

Nobody can disagree with his account *and* assert a broad consensus on referendum day 2016 across 52% behind any alternative account.
Boris 26.6.2016
* 'Intense and intensifying European cooperation
* Brits keep rights to live + work in EU
* UK-EU free trade & access to single market

"The *only* change – it will not come in any great rush – is that the UK will extricate itself from the EU’s opaque legislation"
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David Henig
@DavidHenigUK
It is widely accepted that the UK Government and Parliament made a major mistake in invoking Article 50 without a plan.

Rather than learn from this Government and many MPs now suggest we need to support the Withdrawal Agreement without a plan for the future.

1/11
Why did Government and MPs invoke Article 50? Because they were under pressure to show that ‘Brexit is being delivered’

What is the main argument from switchers to supporting the deal now? To show that ‘Brexit is being delivered’

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Alexander
@37paday
1/ Can I kick it? (Yes, you can!)
Well, I'm gone (Go on then!)
Can I kick it? To all the people who can Fudge like A Tory does
2/ Well this amendment is peak Brexit circularity. Let’s remind ourselves how we got here
3/ The UK voted to leave and the Government failed to explain what leaving would mean for Ireland as an island assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #BrexitBetraysBritain
@fascinatorfun
1/. @joannaccherry is speaking very well supporting Dominic Grieve’s Amendment that would enable NO DEAL to be taken off the table & raising CJEU AG decision.

She asks for the meaningful vote to be delayed until the full decision of the CJEU is delivered.
2/. She points out that it was Scottish MPs that took forward the case to the Scottish Courts then onwards to the CJEU.

She reminds them of their wish for independence that many of us, having observed the shameful antics of this Government, understand.
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Mark Elliott
@ProfMarkElliott
A short thread:

Has Parliament 'taken back control' by passing Amendment 7 to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill?
Amendment 7 amends clause 9 of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill. Clause 9 allows the Government to make secondary legislation implementing withdrawal agreement.
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