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@davidallengreen @IanDunt
1. Please don't fail to see the woods for the trees. Brexit itself is the attempted coup. Prorogation is just the latest enabling step in the implementation of the coup which started with the 2016 ref
@davidallengreen @IanDunt
1. Please don't fail to see the woods for the trees. Brexit itself is the attempted coup. Prorogation is just the latest enabling step in the implementation of the coup which started with the 2016 ref
@davidallengreen @IanDunt 2. "To me [prorogation] is the latest, most dangerous, manifestation of a rolling coup parliamentarians have been battling since 2016...So it is a coup – but it’s just the latest step in the incremental trashing of our unwritten constitution" - Margaret Beckett MP, 1 Sept 2019
@davidallengreen @IanDunt #RevokeA50 #TakeBackControl #StopTheCoup
3. Margaret Beckett's full statement is here:
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
3. Margaret Beckett's full statement is here:
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
@davidallengreen @IanDunt 4. The @Guardian calling Peter Bone an "expert" is a bit of a reach. Who among us could say this with a straight face ffs?:
"The prorogation of parliament by Boris Johnson is a long-overdue restoration of parliamentary democracy"
"The prorogation of parliament by Boris Johnson is a long-overdue restoration of parliamentary democracy"
