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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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If you can find joy at the pitiful spectacle of an entitled racist, sexist, homophobic lying bully boy from Eton getting another day of come-uppance, this is a great summary of today's nightmare for Boris Johnson...
politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/09/…
And the TL/DR version...
Finally, if you thought I was too harsh in my first tweet, you obviously don't know Boris Johnson well enough. While I envy that ignorance, you could if you were really masochistic get to know him better by reading the attached document...
drive.google.com/file/d/1XzAujy…
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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We desperately need an answer to Brexit.

It can't be "just leave", because that solves nothing.

It can't be "just stay", much as I'd love it, because that's too hard a sell.

So a second referendum looks like the only way out. But every option must be *defined* and *actionable*
In other words, whatever the 2nd referendum decides, the decision should be clear and unarguable. A specific recipe for a particular outcome, not just "cook something".
But that also means that the defined Leave outcome must be possible. It can't be a unicorn version of Brexit.

Best way to do that? Go back to the EU's cascade of possible post-Brexit relationships and pick one.

(My preference would be Norway, of course, if we have to leave.)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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If Boris Johnson resigns (as PM, but *not* Tory leader) and Jeremy Corbyn takes over, then there's an interesting scenario:
1. Jeremy Corbyn asks for a *long* A50 extension, long enough to negotiate a "Labour deal" and also hold 2nd ref
2. He then tries that negotiation
3. At the same time, his "majority" is even lower than Boris Johnson's would be in opposition.
4. So that means Labour can implement none of its other plans that the other parties see as so damaging because they don't have a hope of getting through the HOC.
Above scenario might not actually be too bad, with key proviso that the A50 extension has to be *long*. If it's just a few months at a time, the idea falls apart. But if we shove it a year or more away (basically to the end of when transition would have been) it allows options.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Nobody talks about UKIP these days. That's because electorally they're irrelevant. But in very tight marginals, their otherwise risible vote share might make the difference, assuming they run candidates. So might we see the Tories do a pact with them too?
"Smartest" would be to gift them 1 MP in a very safe leave seat (agree it with the Brexit Party too) and in exchange they stand down all over the rest of the UK. 1 MP would be infinitely better than 0 from their POV. It shows they're still a "real" party and gets them on TV.
(To be clear, by "gift" I mean neither the Tories nor the BP would stand candidates in that one area.)

I have no idea if the Tories are thinking along these lines, or indeed thinking of UKIP at all. But given all their other tricks, you have to expect the unexpected.
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