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For the record, we have suspended the activities of @OFOCBrexit. @Will_DryOFOC and I agreed to devote its remaining resources to the @OFOCNI branch due to the problems the Brexit deal creates for Northern Ireland.
I cannot thank all of you enough for your support.
Several of the @OFOCBrexit team suspended their university education to fight Brexit. And with the acute phase of that fight over and a 5-year Johnson term ahead, they need to get on with their lives.
No matter how early or recently they joined/left us. They were total soldiers!
@lara_spirit @Will_DryOFOC
@ed_shackle @Phoebepotter_1 @chris_allnutt @cathleenc_ @hugh_clegg @JohnTothill @CalumMillbank @NinaParker @FinnDoire @TaraGrace_ @pearse_smith @aron_hughes7 @beccacoleman97 @Joee_DM @politicalailie @mandeldril @HugoDLucas @viewsfromleft @GervaiseMiller
I've definitley missed names there. But I'm sat in my car, on my phone. (service station) I've met so many amazing activists. @salpatz, @athianakec_myp, @youthforeurope who've all given their sweat and tears to @OFOCBrexit's campaign. I look forward to working with you in future.
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Every one of them knows that they did absolutely everything in their power to prevent a No-Deal this year and prepare the country for what's coming over the next 10 years.
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Femi
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My ideal #LabourLeadership pick would be a Midlands/Northern woman who knew those areas were right to demand change in 2016 but never pretended spending 8 yrs negotiating with the EU and US instead of investing in those areas was the answer, and instead stood AGAINST nationalism.
That's why I instinctively thought of Bridget Phillipson.
But I'm just brainstorming.
Labour has about 2 years to get this right.(3 years for Labour to show itself to have solid stable leadership that's ready to take power).
So this shouldn't be rushed.
"Why woman?"
Not a deal-breaker but:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Politics has been a boy's club for a while.
The ERG ruled May.
The Tories just supported a deal 95% identical to May's and which Boris said no PM should sign. But this one happens to have a 'Johnson' attached🙄
Plus, Labour need to catch up.
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@Femi_Sorry
I admit: it's a fine line between showing the economic benefit EU27 citizens bring to the UK, to reassure financially vulnerable Brits that immigration isn't a threat... And simply commodifying/objectifying human beings.
"Low-value... People" is on the wrong side of that line.
I'll keep saying:
If you know that immigration is a net benefit to our economy but people at the bottom are still suffering, it's the government's job to properly distribute that benefit via taxation & supporting unions.
Blaming/dehumanising migrants instead says a lot about you.
The argument is often made that immigration puts pressure on wages in the construction sector.
A) Not black & white as we have a housing crisis.
B) If the construction sector unionised properly to avoid exploitation and ensure fair pay across the sector: no more "undercutting".
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@Femi_Sorry
Sadly I couldn't do my planned grilling but here it is:
1️⃣ Do all leave voters support Johnson's Brexit? No. So the 2016 result isn't a mandate for it
2️⃣ Why was the election called? To get Johnson's Brexit deal through
3️⃣ Did the majority vote to let his Brexit deal through? No
4️⃣ So if our election system can allow our country to be trapped in 7+ years of negotiations as a direct result of an election where the majority voted NOT to do that, does that not mean electoral reform is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY?
I'd played it out several times in my head, predicting every possible response...but it would have been quite a combative way of doing it, and given that everyone had been really non-confrontational, festive even, up until that point, it felt wrong to go for the throat.
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Nigel Adams, Minister for Wales, and Governement whip has resigned the #Cabinet over #TheresaMay's way forward.

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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:
The amendment most likely to pass – and therefore the one on which most attention has been paid – is this one from Conservative party chairman Sir Graham Brady. It's effectively an instruction to go back and seek *some unstated other way* to avoid a hard border in Ireland:
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#BREXIT craziness update so maybots deal is blown out of the water l. Similarly corbyns vote of no confidence fails and won't be backed by SNP and lib dems
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Ryan Heath
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#Brexit #thread
1/ If you don’t follow Brexit every day, here’s some advice. Let go of any illusions that this drama is about trade protocols, residency rights or the status of the Irish border. Brexit is the story of a proud former imperial power undergoing a mid-life crisis
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The Tories and their media mates are dodging the question of what happens when May's botched #Brexit deal gets voted out by The Commons.
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The key concept here is 'confidence'. A government stays in power by having the confidence of the House of Commons. Meaning that it has a majority to pass its business. Losing a vote of confidence means they've 'lost' the House and by convention a General Election is due
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Lesley Miller
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Germany earned €2.9 billion from Greece’s debt crisis, their supposed equal members

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