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The majority of Parliament opposes #NoDealBrexit.
The majority of the People (54%) voted for parties whose manifestos opposed #NoDealBrexit.

So please, fight for a #NoDealBrexit if you want... But STOP pretending it has any democratic legitimacy.
Literally NOBODY would have voted Labour because they wanted #NoDealBrexit. They got 39.9% of the vote.

Labour's manifesto ruled it out and got a 6% increase in Remain voters.
Many voted Labour specifically to avoid #NoDealBrexit.
yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/2…
Literally NOBODY would have voted Lib Dem because they wanted a #NoDealBrexit.
They got 7.4% of the vote.
They were calling for a referendum on the deal.
Literally NOBODY would have voted SNP because they wanted #NoDealBrexit.
They got 3% of the vote.
They campaigned on the basis of stopping hard Brexit and especially No-Deal Brexit.
That's just 3 parties and we're already over 50% of the vote.
THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT WANT A #NoDealBrexit!
Stop being democratically shy!
Democracy demands we avoid a #NoDealBrexit.
So shout it loudly!

A 48% approval rating for our current relationship with the rest of the EU DOES NOT mean 52% want any other relationship.
The opposition to the deal and the 2017 election proves that!
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Nigel Farage already admitted his #EUArmy scaremongering is deceitful.
He knows that it's entirely our choice because that's how the EU works. WATCH HIM ADMIT THAT.
Put it this way.

With us still IN the EU, the other 27 countries of the EU could choose to form a European Army without us.
OR
We could leave the EU but still sign a defence pact to join an #EUArmy from the outside.

BREXIT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE BECAUSE IT'S BASED ON CONSENT!
If you don't know the #EUArmy scaremongering is just manipulation, that doesn't make you stupid.
Two weeks ago I had to explain it to the Oxford-educated parents of a friend of mine.
But it does mean you need to do better at fact-checking what you hear.
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
Brexit showed me just how desperately the UK needs to change..
But we can only fix the country if Brexit stops.
I was part of the problem.

I was working on 'traditional' inequalities like race and gender, because it matched my skill set and passion, assuming that UK politicians were sufficiently working on regional inequality.
I was wrong.
Thank you @StevenFrance4.
@StevenFrance4 We can either spend the next 8+years in EU negotiations, having the same arguments trade and sovereignty, while trying to cobble something together with Trump that doesn't snuff out our NHS and farming industry, or we can focus on regional investment and electoral reform.
CHOOSE!
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@Femi_Sorry
If even 8% of Brexit voters don't want No-Deal, then #NoDealBrexit is against the will of the people.
Sorry, I actually got that wrong.
I based my calculations on a total reversal.
4% of 51.9% = 2.1
51.9% - 2.1% = 49.8

So...
If even 4% of Brexit voters don't want No-Deal, then #NoDealBrexit is against the will of the people.
So what are the odds that 96% of the people who argued for Brexit by swearing that it would produce an amazing trade deal, are all now OK with the exact opposite?

You know what? Let's ask Nigel Farage....
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Dear leave voters,

You can’t honestly say you voted for a no deal Brexit in 2016. No one did. It simply wasn’t on the table three years ago.

We were promised a deal in 2016, and that is what leave voters voted for.
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