Thread by @Staedtler

People say they want to stop Brexit, and that's fair enough, but they've never given any thought to how that might come about.
Like it's supposed to just happen out of thin air.

The only way you're going to stop Brexit is with a general election, and I can't understands why this is so hard for Englishmen to grasp.

Honestly, you all sound like babies sometimes. Boris Johnson can't survive politically if he fails at the very thing he forced Theresa May to resign when she failed before.
That is political reality. If he fails as she failed, he will have to resign as she resigned.

You spent two years failing to understand that Theresa May would have to resign before you stop Brexit. I explained that every day for two years, but it just wouldn't penetrate.

And it's now the same for Boris Johnson. If Brexit is going to be stopped, it's going to need his resignation first.
No matter how embarrassing it is to lose another prime minister so soon, he cannot survive if Brexit fails.

The only way to stop Brexit is to remove Boris Johnson from his job. There is no other way of doing it than that.
Some of you, for fuck sake, seem to imagine somehow setting government to one side while you stop Brexit, and then putting it back again once Brexit is over.

Well, it's not going to happen like that. Like I've been telling you for the last three years if you weren't too proud to listen. The only way you're going to stop Brexit is by electing a government to do that.

And there's a problem with that, isn't there?

And the name of that problem is Jeremy Corbyn, who is personally devoted to the same policy that keeps destroying governments and prime ministers.

The way you stop Brexit, and the only way to stop it, is by electing a government for that purpose. And that should be easy enough. You demand a general election and then you elect that government.

So why aren't you campaigning for a general election?
It's because neither Labour nor Conservative party wants to stop Brexit. And this is where your brain collides with itself.
You want to stop brexit, but you don't want an election because no one wants to stop Brexit.

You want the government to reverse its policy, and to do so without referring that back to the country in an election.
You want them to abandon everything they presented in their last manifesto, and everything they have done since. Abandon it all just like that.

This is where I start trying to provoke by talking about middle class assumptions. You want to stop Brexit, but without the inconvenience of having to persuade people to vote for it.
Let's stop Brexit, but let's not put it to a vote or anything.

You don't get to do that. You don't get to bitch about democracy for three years and then run away from a general election because you're scared what people might vote for.

There is a mighty problem in front of you that you've barely ever mentioned in the last two years. And its name is Jeremy Corbyn.

Corbyn lost a general election. He should have resigned when that happened, but her didn't. If he had, Brexit would be over

If Corbyn resigned, that would be it for Brexit. It would be over because as soon as there was competent opposition the Tories would drop Brexit like a hot turd.

And this is what I mean by childish thinking. You want to stop Brexit by setting party politics to one side, and you can't do it.

I want to stop Brexit. I want to stop it by having a general election and voting to that effect.
You want to stop Brexit as well, but you want to stop it by magic.