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Femi
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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!
Just think about the total lack of moral integrity it takes to seek to benefit from a narrow vote which would have attracted voters who wanted anything from full Single Market membership to No-Deal... but at the same time claim that only YOUR version of that vote is legitimate.
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Femi
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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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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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Femi
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.@BorisJohnson: "The best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox.... would be to get Brexit done".

You make me sick.
@BorisJohnson We're talking about the Prime Minister using Jox's death AGAINST HER.
@BorisJohnson I mean FFS, this is literally the last thing she ever tweeted and Boris Johnson tried to use her death as an argument for Brexit.
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