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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Road-testing a few slogans ahead of the Tory party conference. See what you think...
"Dispassionate absurdism."
"For the one, not the many."
"Astern together."
"Should have gone to Brexsavers."
"Reality is for other people."
"Divided we stand." 1/4
"Taking the Great out of Britain."
"Free movement with second movement of equal or greater value."
"Ploughing into Brexit."
"Your opinion is not my problem."
"Believe in Brexit. Harder."
"Borderus Invisibiliarmus!" 2/4
"Give me a 'W'. Give me a 'T'. Give me an 'O'. What does it spell...?"
"Success is not an option."
"Parachutes are for wusses."
"Redrawing the map since 2016."
"A lack of expertise is no barrier to high office."
"No deal is better than not being Prime Minister." 3/4
"Brexit is for life, not just for Christmas."
"Blue rinse conservatism."
"Curtailing freedom of movement doesn't mean you'll lose your bus pass."
"One day we'll all be dead."
"Brexit means never having to say 'je suis desole'" 4/4
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Between a quarter and a third of 2015 Labour voters voted Leave in 2016.
Between a third and forty percent of 2015 Tory voters voted Remain.
(Different polls have different figures. But that gives us a ballpark idea.)

Makes both the Tory and Labour Brexit positions a bit daft!
It means in theory, if Brexit is the number one concern for voters, up to two-thirds of Labour voters and forty percent of Tory voters are up for grabs by the LibDems. Even if they only convert a small fraction with their strong/controversial Remain stance, that's a big deal.
Bear in mind, the LibDems could (on paper) end up the largest party without winning any Leave votes at all. None, zero, zip. There are way more than enough Remain votes to put them over the top. I am not suggesting that would happen, but it *could*.
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Has anyone got experience of self-publishing a non fiction book on Twitter with a huge number of endnotes (1,000+). Each is just a URL link (to a source of information backing up a comment or assertion).

I worry how readers and Amazon will respond to a massive block at the end?
Sorry, should have been clearer in the original tweet: self-publishing *on Kindle*. I believe that drastically reduces formatting and other options.
NOTE: this is what the endnotes look like at the moment in the draft text (ignore the red squiggles, they're from spellcheck)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Where's the lack of democratic legitimacy in the LibDems' Brexit stance? It's in two parts. Both are important!

1) If they *win* a majority in a GE, they will revoke A50 and remain. [As the majority party they get to enact their manifesto. That's how our politics works.]
2) If there's no GE or they don't win a majority in a GE, they will campaign for a 2nd referendum with Remain option, and campaign for Remain in it. If Remain wins, Brexit will be cancelled. [This retest of the will of the people makes revocation legitimate.]
Now, I can understand some people griping that a 33% (or whatever) vote share that delivers a GE majority is less than 52%, but you can't compare a GE to a referendum. Chalk and cheese. Under our current political system, a majority of MPs at a GE *is* democratically legitimate.
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