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Jonathan Lis
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This language is outrageous. Corbyn is not betraying anyone. He is promising a referendum with Remain on the ballot paper, which is all that Remainers have ever asked for.
It’s not just disappointing but actually upsetting to see Swinson use language of ‘betrayal’ which has so thoroughly poisoned our national discourse. Corbyn has never made a secret of trying to reconcile Remainers & Leavers. You may not like his compromise but it betrays no-one.
Swinson seems to have fully abandoned her recent collaborative efforts to combat Britain’s existential crisis. In resuming this old aggressive tribalism she is squarely placing the interest of her party over the country - just like Johnson. I hope it’s worth it.
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Jonathan Lis
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Amazing that it’s five years to the day since the Scottish indyref. Remember watching the joyful pro-independence celebration outside the Scottish Parliament as polls closed. Could barely see a pro-Union flag or placard in central Edinburgh - and felt like everything had changed.
Scottish independence is a very different kind of nationalism from Brexit but that day felt like the start of a permanent constitutional convulsion. The decades-long certainties about Britain’s stability, global role and sense of self changed. Voters were ready to break things.
When question comes again, which it will, the Scottish people may easily change their mind. After the way they’ve been treated I wouldn’t blame them. Wales and N Ireland could easily follow. Depending on what happens in the next few months, much sooner than many people assume.
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Jonathan Lis
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If Jo Swinson wants to demonstrate to the millions of non-party-tribal Remainers that she cares more about stopping Brexit than boosting the Liberal Democrats, now would be a great time. Her current strategy will deliver both a Tory majority and a no-deal.
Extraordinary how Swinson could be so tone-deaf. At a moment of existential national crisis, people are crying out for a new kind of politics where our leaders recognise the extraordinarily high stakes & their very real common opponent. Our shitty political culture will ruin us.
Nobody’s asking Swinson to endorse Corbyn or be nice about him. She might simply stop furiously denouncing him & pretending he’s as bad as Johnson when he’s just saved us from no-deal and an early election. The path to stopping Brexit goes through Labour, not around it. Get real.
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Jonathan Lis
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So, not sure if there’s been any Brexit news today, but if there has I’ll be discussing it on Al Jazeera at midnight
I was having dinner with some friends when the call came through, and they gently suggested that the shirt I was wearing might be a little... distracting
So many thanks to @DanDawes85 for stepping in with this little number and saving the day. It takes a village, people.
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Why are @LibDems scared of the General election? As they can get up to 58 seats, have a bigger voice and reduce the Tory majority, hold a key in the next hung Parliament? @joswinson shared a top table with Cameron in the national interest & lost her seat as a result. @DavidLammy
The @LibDems have conned so many.

Yet again.

“Bollox to Brexit”, they squealed.

But now we know: rather than stopping Brexit they will enable the hardest of all possible Tory Brexits.

The party of betrayal then. The party of betrayal now. Nothing has changed.

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The Lib Dems would rather let No-Deal Brexit happen and make political bank off of blaming Corbyn for it than work with Corbyn to prevent it from happening.

They sole identifier at this point - being the party of Remain - is something they're not even willing to fight for in it
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Jon Stone
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this policy proposed by unions may be a sensible political compromise but it’s still a communications nightmare: ‘we want a second referendum and we’ll campaign for remain against a tory deal but we’d negotiate a new Brexit in power, have a referendum on it, and campaign for ???'
if your policy is best expressed as a flowchart, you may run into some communication issues
i’m not bringing up communications to be deliberately negative here by the way: i’m bringing it up because it’s Labour’s problem. the party has been committed to a referendum on any deal with remain on the ballot paper for a while now, but how many people do you think know that?
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“The wheels are falling off” Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, according to senior shadow cabinet members.

He’s resisting huge pressure to reshuffle his closest aides and move to a “referendum and remain ” Brexit policy.

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“Jeremy keeps delaying. The longer he delays, the more it looks like he’s being pushed into it.”

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Senior Labour MP: “The real win is what we have also been arguing for: a referendum with remain on the ballot paper and Labour campaigning for remain.

“But Karie, Seumas and Len are fighting a ferocious rearguard action against this.”

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KidTempo
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I actually have his book on the desk behind me. Much like Machiavelli's The Prince, it's a manual on how to be a complete and utter bastard (and win). Many of the chapters point to why Leave won, others to why Remain lost. Based on its content, #FBPE need to get its hands dirty.
The article is very different, and it's Leavers that are the narcissists - they hold a belief in something and won't accept being called up on it, deny any facts they're shown as fake news and propaganda, while never questioning their own sources.
I have #FBPE in my bio, and it's because I value Freedom of Movement. I have benefited from it, as have my friends and family. I want to keep it, I want my fellow UK citizens to keep it, and I want EU residents in the UK to keep it too.
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Henry Newman
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Just listened to @steverichards14 say on the Week in Westminster that Labour do have a policy on Brexit.

Eh?

Really?

A thread on Labour’s Brexit mess 👇

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Could anyone sum it up Labour's policy in a sentence or two? Do they back leaving EU or not? Are they for ending free movement & leaving Single Market? With fewer than 100 days to go, it’s getting rather late for their position to still be so nebulous, as @JunckerEU might say

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For many months now @Keir_Starmer has been manoeuvring Labour towards a position where they could back a second referendum, with remain on the ballot paper.

At Labour Conference in September, a motion was passed explicitly putting such an option on the table

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