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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
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”Many Leave voters voted to make things better. Many people who voted for Brexit did so for emotional reasons connected to hope. Leave voters wanted to jump into a time machine back to a Utopian Britain that may or may not have existed.”

politics-punked.com/2019/10/02/bre…
“Back to a time and place where Britain was a country full of hope.

Hope is a powerful thing. Politicians ruthlessly exploit it. “

Very good, @JamesMelville
The result is that Britain’s political system is being dismantled to the advantage of the very rich & powerful & to the detriment of the vast majority of UK citizens
This pattern has been continuing for over 30 years & still millions of voters look in the wrong direction of blame
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
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This might have focussed on Qatar, Egypt & Nigeria but it caught my attention because, like so much of the Brexit astroturfing, it was being driven by PR firms.

Here a load of Facebook messaging apparently fronted by grassroots campaigns came through associates of Lynton Crosby
Many of us have noticed a big uptick in divisive tweets dripping into our accounts.

Worth stopping to think whether they too are being driven by a series of “professional” orgs just as here.

I know that @marcowenjones has been researching an overlap between this story & Brexit
So you have a sense of the familiar ground that seems to be common between this Qatar etc story and what is happening here, a little reminder of one of the U.K. Brexit/ Johnson based stories. Here is just one link.

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
@fascinatorfun
“there is nowhere in the world where 2 different customs /market regimes have a frontier across which trade flows without checks, controls and infrastructure. But all the energy among the Brexiteers has gone into trying to escape this inescapable reality.” irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…
2/.

It could not be clearer: what is ruled out is not just posts on the border but any infrastructure, any checks, and any controls that do not currently exist.
This, remember, is not just an Irish or EU demand. It has been the official British line all throughout this process.
3/. Excellent from @fotoole

“The tyranny of fact”.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
@fascinatorfun
YouGov: More than twice as many people say the public rather than MPs should decide whether Britain quits the EU if Boris Johnson fails to get a new Brexit deal

52% say there should be a #FinalSay c 23% who think MPs should decide
25% : “don’t know”.
standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
2/ Critically “By a clear 41 to 27 per cent margin, Leave voters want a referendum, rather than MPs, to settle the matter if there is no deal.”

YouGov interviewed 1,620 adults in Britain between September 29 and 30. Data are weighted.”

WHY does Johnson and MPs not want that?
3/. Because it is MPs that keeps failing to look the hard facts in the eye.
I/ This is very very difficult.
II/ Not deliverable without a lot of harm.
III/ Yes. YES MPs have to look at the fact that they have failed miserably to secure our elections and must do so first.
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