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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Guy Verhofstadt: "Brexit is not working. And why is it not working? Because Brexit is a bad idea." [he's appearing as a special guest at the LibDem conference]
"I think even Margaret Thatcher would be expelled from the Conservative Party as it now is."
"Brexit has created one positive thing. The biggest pro-European movement in the EU is in Britain, putting 1 million people on the streets."
"In a world in which a British PM can prorogue Parliament, not for a few days, but for 5 weeks, we must work together to defend democracy, parliamentarism and the interests of all citizens." (bit of paraphrasing - can't type as fast as he speaks!)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Here's what I have trouble grasping, 3 years down the line.

What do Leavers think Remainers are fighting for? Do they *really* believe we're just sore losers, as if the referendum was a football match that went the other way and we're still arguing a call?

That's just daft.
Deep down, this illustrates the gulf between Leave and Remain. Leavers are fighting for something abstract. Remainers are fighting to keep jobs and save businesses, and defend themselves (or family/friends/colleagues/neighbours) from a hostile immigration environment.
More specifically, Remainers are worried about...
- Short-term economic shock
- Long-term economic damage
- Job losses
- Loss of existing trade deals
- Collapse of the pound
- Lower direct investment
- Destruction of UK manufacturing sector
- Rising cost of living
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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There was always a very strange asymmetry to the Brexit referendum, because the "Remain" outcome could have been implemented at no effort or cost (other than that incurred during the referendum itself, of course) the instant the result was announced at 4:40am.
So by the time people sat down to breakfast on the day after the referendum, Brexit would have been done and dusted (bar Eurosceptics and UKIP-types raring to have another crack at it).

And we could have moved on to more important things like fixing the NHS, social care etc.
Who knows, maybe we would have still been the 5th richest country in the world, rather than the 6th...
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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One downside of social media is it brings together people with outrageous views who might otherwise never have found anyone to share them with. For instance, imagine a situation in which one person per town holds a certain deplorable stance.
Before social media they would have had no way to discuss it. Now, they can connect for free straight into a community of thousands of like-minded souls. This creates an echo chamber, gives them the mistaken impression that their fringe worldview is mainstream, and reinforces it.
("Look, I must be right to think XYZ horrid thing. Because here are all these people all over the country (or the world) who also think XYZ.")

So if it seems like everything's getting more and more extreme, that's because it is. And we have social media to "thank" for that.
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