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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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Dear @JeremyCorbyn,
Since Johnson took office you've passed more laws than he has. If you call an election you risk GIVING the Tories power.
You also risk repeating the democratic failure of 2017 where the majority vote for anti-no-deal parties but no-deal parties get more seats.
There's a majority against No-Deal in the Parliament now, which leaves only Deal & Stay.
The logical way to decide between them is a referendum.
The Tories are calling you a coward for not calling an election... True cowardice would be to let their taunting manipulate your pride.
You don't want to be the Labour leader who led a majority in Parliament then, due to personal pride and a failure to understand the reality of First-Past-the-Post, handed a majority to the Tories to let them trash the country via an election where the majority vote against them.
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@Femi_Sorry
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_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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