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Summed up in a nutshell - why are @bbclaurak @Peston @ShippersUnbound etc focusing on theatrics of "unsigned letters" and not on the key point, that they have been led by the nose by "Nbr 10 sources" about secret plans to thwart Benn act which,in the end, didn't actually exist
@bbclaurak @Peston @ShippersUnbound For weeks @Peston @bbclaurak and others have been playing Cummings' game of amplifying "we'll beat the Benn act with our cunning plans", but those plans were basically "we won't sign the letter"

They've been played & should take stock on what they've lost
@bbclaurak @Peston @ShippersUnbound There was nothing, Cummings has turned out to be not half as clever as he thought he was, Johnson has been forced into a climb down of his own making because MPs cannot trust him, we're not leaving on 31st as Cummings intended

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tony nog #Revoker
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1) The real #Brexit issue
Last night I posted a comment - what was the point of a Corbyn led Referendum

Numerous people got annoyed & several born again Labour commentators told me I needed to essentially face reality and support Corbyn

Hard nosed LD remainers are not the issue
2) there isn't 20% of the population who are LD remainers picking Johnson, just 20% of the population who can't vote Corbyn

The issue is *not* LD remainers

The issue is Labour supporters who will not drop Corbyn,despite all evidence, and who expect everyone else to fall in line
3) we've had 3 years of Corbyn barely moving an inch, punishing tactical voting and then crowing when that tactical voting returned him a better than expected loss in 2017, making no moves to actually stop Brexit and confusing the issue by offering new "jobs first" unicorns
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tony nog #Revoker
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1) probably shouldn't oversimplify, but I'm going to anyway

If @UKLabour don't want an election, they need to *all* get behind a Final Say 2nd ref

If they can't, they have to get behind a GE

But they have to all get behind *something* on #Brexit, and the problem is they cant
@UKLabour 2) and the reason why @UKLabour can't get behind any given position is they have a leadership out of step with most members & MPs, which *does* want #Brexit but then hopes to come into power in the chaos that follows

The membership know this really,but won't do anything about it
@UKLabour 3) *IF* Labour got fully behind a #PeoplesVote or a #FinalSayForAll it would invigorate the movement, make the public see it as a possibility and help us put an end to #Brexit

But Labour never will, because Corbyn never will

So fatigue sets in, and Johnson wins by default
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tony nog #Revoker
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Labour put us here. By refusing to unequivocally support Remain & a people's vote, by endlessly appearing on TV pretending that a "better" deal was possible, by sitting on the fence but most importantly, by indulging a brexiter leader we are in this desperate position
Honestly I've gone from fanboy status to being sick of hearing @DavidLammy, @jessphillips, @Andrew_Adonis and others shouting support for remain but doing nothing in practical terms to actually fight #brexit

They could have called Corbyn out, they could have left

They didn't
@DavidLammy @jessphillips @Andrew_Adonis Every Labour MP, every left wing commentator who pretended support for remain but stood behind Corbyn when it actually mattered, #Brexit is on them, because they knew the damage brexit would cause but did nothing of substance to stop it
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The outline of the Brexiteers strategy is at least fairly clear.

I believe Remainers should take note of it, because it gives important clues about how to defeat it.

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