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If you're still fighting to make the case for Remain, perhaps you can draw fresh motivation and inspiration from my book? It busts two dozen Brexit myths and looks at the reality of no deal and trade on WTO terms. Available on Kindle and in paperback.
amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z1FTRQW/
Here's an extract: "What Remainers are fighting for"...
And here's another extract, about the Red Queen Race problem facing us i.e. the fact that the EU we knew back in 2016 is already quite different from the EU of 2019...
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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MPs: We don't want a bad Tory Brexit deal.
Boris Johnson: Parliament doesn't want Brexit.

Jo Swinson: I won't back a Corbyn-led Labour government.
Corbyn supporters: LibDems won't back Labour.

Same "false generalisation from the specific" fallacy, just from different angles.
In Parliament's case, it might yet back a different better Brexit deal, just not the rubbish ones they have been offered so far.

In LDs case, they might yet back Labour led by a different better leader, just not the rubbish one they have been offered so far.
But by resorting to attacking under false premises, those leaping to incorrect generalisations make a compromise outcome less likely.

The instinctive reaction to being attacked is to dig your heels in.

And then we're stuck.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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For a majority of voters, the prospect of 5 full years of Boris Johnson, hard Brexit and austerity is truly chilling.

For a majority of voters, the prospect of a Corbyn government is truly chilling, whether on antisemitism or policy grounds.

FPTP could deliver either in theory.
But it could also deliver a hung Parliament that would by definition blunt the worst excesses of both these terrible choices.

For that to work, we need smart, widespread tactical voting.

There's still time, just, to pull it off.
I don't want to hear a word of Johnson worship. I don't want to hear a word of Corbyn worship.

Factually, numerically, what I said above is 100% true: neither side has a majority of electoral support.

That FPTP can put them in power regardless doesn't change that.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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This is how truth blurs seamless into propaganda...

Yes, this is an absolutely real photo of Boris Johnson and his entourage walking briskly past a homeless person while ignoring them.

But it didn't happen today...
The photo was actually taken in 2013 when Boris Johnson was Mayor of London.

Does that make it acceptable?

No, not at all.

But does it colour the picture?

It adds nuance and context, at least.
m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/17/bor…
Back in 2013, benefits had not yet started being capped...

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2/ Mrs May will not be able to get the backstop removed from the WA. She will however get some additional promises and clarifications from the EU.
3/ This will not be enough to satisfy the DUP (what would be?) but many MPs, worried about impending no-deal brexit, will vote in favour of Mrs May's deal.
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Gavan Reilly
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#Brexit thread:

So. Tomorrow the House of Commons will vote on a series of possible amendments to Theresa May's 'Plan B' - or rather the 'plan of action to achieve a Plan B' - which itself officially reads as follows:
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Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺
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1/ Very small thread on why #Brexit is actualy leading to the end of the UK or atleast the UK of the post war period as we understand it & its much, much more than *just* Irish & the Scots. Its as much about the English and its polity......
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