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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
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⁦@OborneTweets⁩ :- “I have attended every single Conservative Party conference since 1992. This one is the only one where I’ve felt scared.

The Conservative Party I have supported almost all my adult life scarcely exists anymore.” middleeasteye.net/opinion/oborne…
“James Cleverly, the Tory chairman, said that there would be violence in the streets if Brexit does not happen.

This is dangerous and dishonest. For all of the acrimony and bitter disagreement over Brexit, there has been no civil disorder on the British streets.”
“But ministers this week were talking it up by introducing the idea into popular discourse. It almost feels as if they want violence to happen in order to push Brexit through. “

Yes. That is what they are doing and decent editors & journalists should not play into their hands
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
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A common theme in the pro-Brexit groups is wanting to hang opposition MPs for "treason". This cropped up repeatedly, in posts by multiple Facebook users, in multiple private groups.

MORE in Pro Brexit Groups than Anti

HOW MANY MORE ⁦@BBCNewsnight⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
Pro Brexit Group examples.

But this article fails to disclose how many were death threats, threats of violence, stalking, abuse.

I think it should so we understand what Pro Brexiters think is OK to say.
Anti Brexit groups also contained tweets wishing death on MPs but fewer examples, NO proportions

Those Remainers who do speak thus are harming the debate, letting the side & themselves down & should be called out every time

But we should be told the proportions @BBCNewsnight
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
@fascinatorfun
“In August 1969, the nine-year-old was killed when the RUC fired into his home during rioting in Belfast, the first of at least 186 children to die in what would become known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland.”

Brexit is not academic in NI irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
“the teenage striker who scored two goals in the schools’ cup final, to the boy who loved animals so much he “saved every little creature around him”, and the five-year-old who wrote in her copybook on the day she died, “I am a good girl, I talk to God”, these are their stories.
“When 14-year-old Philip Rafferty left his home in west Belfast to go to band practice, his mother, Maureen, made sure he was wearing his new winter coat. The next time she saw it was in a plastic bag at his inquest, saturated with blood.”
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
@fascinatorfun
A challenge from ⁦@matthewparris4⁩ ⁦@EdwardJDavey⁩

“The heresy that Brexit is the only question suits the LD because, there being many more Remain voters than..LD voters, the party has much to gain from converting the former into the latter.” spectator.co.uk/2019/09/eight-…
@matthewparris4 sets out 8 criteria why he is a Tory, not a LD (& we should always be grateful & respectful to those who lend us their vote so we can prove we have earned it).

What will @LibDemPress and @CarolineVoaden say in response.

We are unapologetically radical centrists
1 reason @matthewparris4 is, I think, that the idea of you lending your vote every single election cycle is the healthiest possible democratic state of affairs.

We have got to where we are because Parties have become sclerotic instead of being engaged in a vital dynamic debate
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