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Oopsie. Here's a leaked copy of the pre-chewed answers for Tory candidates to "spontaneously" deliver. Watch out for them. Any time you hear a candidate parrot one of these lines, it's straight from Tory HQ.
And here's the bit about the Brexit Party... 🔥

The last bullet in the document in the previous tweet is particularly pot-kettley given Boris Johnson's own jibes about Muslim women... Here's a little reminder!

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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Here's why tactical voting is so confusing and so difficult:
1. It needs to include Tory voters AND Labour voters.
2. "Stop the Tories" is not the same as "Stop Brexit".
3. Many Labour supporters want to focus tactics on STT.
4. Everyone else wants to focus tactics on SB.
Remember: even Labour Leave voters want to "Stop the Tories". But they don't want to "Stop Brexit". That's why STT isn't the same as SB.

This distinction may seem like splitting hairs, but it's critical to understanding the problem.
- For many Labour supporters (Leave & Remain) the very worst future is another 5 years of Tory rule.
- For most supporters of other parties, the very worst future is Brexit. But since we're being brutally honest, a majority Corbyn government doesn't look too hot to them either.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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All of these scenarios *could in theory* produce a Government:

Scenario 1: Labour 330 MPs

Scenario 2: Labour 280 MPs, SNP 50 MPs

Scenario 3: Labour 280 MPs, LD 50 MPs

Scenario 4: Labour 230 MPs, SNP 50 MPs, LD 50 MPs

(You can adjust the numbers above based on your optimism.)
The main point is that you don't need Labour to have anything even close to a majority for the Tories to end up out of power. You just need the sum total of MPs from all parties that *might at a pinch be willing to work together* to add up to a majority.
Of course, it only works if:
A) The numbers are there overall, in one guise or another
B) Neither the SNP nor the LD prop up the Tories instead (I really don't see why they would. A second coalition would finish the LD - they learned that lesson. And the SNP have zero reason to.)
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Here's the clip of Rebecca Long-Bailey confirming that Labour would only make up its mind on backing Leave or Remain in a second referendum *after* renegotiating Brexit.

In other words we have zero clarity on THE issue of the election! Useless.
Fantastic ammunition for the LibDems, but not what we need to cobble together a Remain Alliance. Imagine you vote for Labour. They get in, then a few months later they interpret your vote as a mandate for them to campaign for Leave in a second referendum. How angry would you be?
Here's the real problem: if the Labour manifesto reflects the same ambiguity when it's published in a couple of weeks, there will be no hiding it: a strategic vote for them could *at their whim* be parlayed into a Leave referendum stance. Let's see what the document says!
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Jason Keeney
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Let’s explore just how phony all this “Muh Russia” stuff is.

We will look at the real problem, China.

Read this article by Newsweek just to get how big this problem with China is, and then we will get into the weeds a bit.

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BXP has no manifesto, no detailed policies & no plan for #Brexit (no, "just walk away" isn't a serious plan outside of a pub!)

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Somehow it feels like this is all about the salary and perks for some of the BXP's candidates, and that they're not taking the business of representing our country in an international forum seriously - as indeed those who were previously part of UKIP never have.

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I thought some folks might be interested in the process leading to this important dox. Thread following. #IdentifyEvropa #Oklahoma 1/?
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