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If you think the Supreme Court should have declared that Prime Ministers can shut down Parliament whenever they want to get their own way...

You don't believe in Democracy; You just believe in Brexit.
If you think we should leave without a deal, even though, at the only opportunity the country has had to give an opinion on No-Deal, the majority voted against it...

You don't believe in democracy; You just believe in Brexit.
If you think we should ignore the fact that while the losing side had reporting errors which were corrected, the winning side overspent by £449,000 and has been declared to have broken the law...

You don't believe in democracy; You just believe in Brexit. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
If you know that there are many different versions of Brexit and that none of them have a majority of support in the UK, but want to do it without a referendum, knowing the majority opposes it...

You don't believe in democracy; You just believe in Brexit.
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
I don't know how much more simply I can say this:
You can't campaign to stop the Brexit we've negotiated then accuse those who want to stop No-Deal Brexit of thwarting the will of the people!
Either Leave just Means Leave or it doesn't!
Either the Brexit vote came with a set of conditions based on the promises made in 2016, or any Brexit will do, in which case you wouldn't have campaigned to stop the Brexit deal.
The hypocrisy is **** UNREAL!
We cannot keep going round in circles like this! ⬇️
It's been three years!!!
Referendum NOW!
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
If the language used by both sides was equal...
Johnson says MPs are "holding the public hostage", so is it OK to say when he prorogued he was "knocking out MPs"?
(Below) Is it OK to say prorogation is putsch 1, refusing to extend putsch 2, then he'll go to jail and write a book?
My point: Stop pretending the language used by the politicians on both sides is equal. He's giving out a hell of a lot worse than he's getting.
Boris Johnson has been leading the Leave side for 3 years and accusing those who oppose him of betrayal.
It's no coincidence that the men who chucked their drink on me and poked me in the face with a flag pole were screaming "F***ing traitor!"

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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
Boris Johnson's shutting down Parliament so that he would be in control of the only active branch of government was just declared unlawful by the highest court in the land.
What do we call an unlawful seizure of absolute political power?
Last night Boris Johnson said that our MPs were "holding the public captive" because they were blocking a version of Brexit that NOBODY WAS ASKING FOR WHEN THEY VOTED.
And yet we have people trying to claim the two uses of language are equal to each other.
Coup wouldn't have been my first choice as they are typically violent. But we do have a prime minister who is willing to break the law in order to seize control.
Alarm is appropriate.
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@UKLabour MPs

1) Keep the message simple
"We cannot trust Johnson. He's talking about breaking the law. Whatever date we agreed for the election he would just move it till after the 31st October, and we crash out, no deal, in the middle of an election. He cannot be trusted"
2) and follow up with the narrative:
"This isnt about a GE. Johnson doesn't care about a GE in the same way he doesn't want a 2nd Ref. But his ERG masters desperately want a no deal #Brexit and they'll shut down parliament, break the law or even throw a GE as a scheme to get it"
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