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Normally referendums on major constitutional issues require a supermajority for the proposed change.

Barry Gardiner has suggested that Labour's "2nd referendum" would reverse this convention and require a supermajority for the status quo.

What is Labour's policy?
@Keir_Starmer Here it is, from the donkey's mouth.
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@mac_puck
The DUP have been betrayed & humiliated by the Tories. Conned into laundering dark money for dark ads. Conned into supplying their votes at Westminster. Conned into thinking they were regarded as respected equals in the corridors of power. Hahaha: they see you as savages.
They gave you some beads and rags and sold your homes from under your feet.

I know you guys are more concerned about "flegs" and the symbolism of a "wet" border, but the economic effect will be beyond brutal

Winter is coming.
I wouldn't take it if I was you.
I'd pull the temple down.
I'd stand up in HOC and tell everything I knew about the DUP dark money in the ref. Everything I know about Firtash and Tchenguiz and Cambridge Analytica: teach those Tory bastards a lesson they never learned at Eton.
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Jim Grace
@mac_puck
You can get your MP's email address from the official list here: parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-…

Here is Flint's: caroline.flint.mp@parliament.uk

Every remainer with a Lab MP should e-mail them today, saying "I will never vote for you again if Flint backs the deal". And CC Flint.
Every remainer with a Tory MP should e-mail them saying: "This is just no-deal delayed, I will never vote for you again if you vote for the deal"
Every remainer should e-mail their MP and say: "If Brexit destroys the Union, the Economy and the NHS, I will blame YOU. You will not hide behind the 2016 result: it was non-binding and fraudulent. However, if a new binding ref confirms the result, you will be in the clear."
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Jim Grace
@mac_puck
How bad will a"wet" border be for NI business?

I have taken NTB data @rjbarfield1 gleaned from Government sources...
...and combined it with NISRA stats on GB goods
nisra.gov.uk/sites/nisra.go…
NTB's come to 16.3%.
If there is no FTA, tariffs add another 2.3%
18.6% average cost increase for GB goods entering NI

But the average for goods entering the EU from GB in a no-deal scenario is 11%. ?!?

The particular mix of goods from GB to NI is servng to make the costs of a regulatory and customs barrier PARTICULARLY onerous.
So why do I keep reading tweets that say NI will be fine under the Johnson deal? Everyone accepts that a customs border between NI and IE (£5Bn trade flow) would be disastrous, but are quite sanguine about a customs and regulatory barrier on the £25Bn NI/GB trade flow?
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Open Europe
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🗞️ Summary of Brexit and EU developments over the weekend in Open Europe's Daily Shakeup [THREAD]:

1. @BorisJohnson promises to withhold financial settlement and scrap Irish backstop

openeurope.org.uk/daily-shakeup/…
2. 🇬🇧🇰🇷 UK agrees rollover of EU trade deal with South Korea

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3. 🌹 Labour's Barry Gardiner: general election more likely than second referendum
+ Scottish Labour Party backs 2nd referendum
+ Liberal Democrat leadership contest gets underway

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Glen O'Hara
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So, it's nearly 20.00. We're 16 councils shy of the finishing line, but let's take stock. /THREAD
Okay, let's put this in perspective and not get too carried away. The Tories have got away without a council mauling for many years, partly because anger at the LDs protected them during the Coalition. They did really well in these seats in 2015. Their luck just ran out.
*Of course* the #LibDems did really well in areas where Lab doesn't really exist, and where they've suddenly snapped back into contention after massive losses in 2011 and 2015. And *of course* #Labour did badly when they're about as coherent as alphabet soup.
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Alex Andreou
@sturdyAlex
Barry Gardiner on @BBCr4today reckons Labour may rule out “extreme” options like no deal or revoke. “Important we’re not see as a Remain party. Labour is not a Remain party now.” Challenged on what Labour would do, if it came down to no deal or revoke, “that’s a tough one”. Wut
Is no deal versus revoke really “a tough one”, Barry? Having a legal framework for trading in services versus not? Five million citizens‘ rights versus a legal void? An uninterrupted supply of insulin versus not? You find these choices “tough”, you noxious, dithering arse polyp?
I cannot wait for the next general election.
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Axel Antoni
@antoni_UK
1/ Why is @UKLabour not opposing #Brexit when Tory Brexit is in tatters & 72% of the Labour supporters do oppose Brexit ? This is a very intriguing question & it feels counterintuitive, especially since most Labour MPs oppose Brexit too. But is it?
2/ Despite Labour party & and supporters opposing #Brexit, supporting it is the surest way to to winning the next general election. And this has nothing to do with wanting to attract Leave voters at all - nothing at all.
3/ There is only one Brexit scenario that will keep the @Conservatives in power: A hard #Brexit that at the same time is a success. And we know how likely that is. All other scenarios will almost automatically lead to a @UKLabour Govt.
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@IVotedRemainEU
(Thread) To all @UKLabour candidates in the upcoming May local elections:

Unfortunately I will not be able to vote for you as a representative of the Labour Party; this is despite having been a #Labour voter myself in the past. Please allow me to explain briefly my reasons why.
After the sacking of Owen Smith, I cannot vote for @UKLabour in any shape or form at the moment due to Jeremy Corybn's approach towards #Brexit which I view as highly undemocratic and contradictory to what the Labour party is meant to stand for ("for the many, not the few"?).
The attitude towards #Brexit by @jeremycorbyn and other hardcore Brexiteers like him really is now bordering on the fascist, something I find deeply disturbing. It seems that dissenters are being crushed.
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@eurosluggard
Some ppl asking, “What happens if parliament votes to reject Brexit deal but Article 50 window almost closed?” Here’s my view...1/
Govt falls. New govt must go back & ask for better deal. EU refuses unless UK willing to offer additional concessions on its “red lines”. 2/
Govt goes back to parliament & says, “This is best deal available unless we are more flexible. Over to you, sovereign parliament...” 3/
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